> The interesting thing is looking at SOA as a way of standarizing IT
> activities so it can be organized much more rapidly, into a more
> demand-driven model.  Which to me means "lean thinking" --
> demand-pulled value streams, flow, and kaizen.  The problem with
> lean thinking in IT has traditionally been that one couldn't do
> company-wide business process & systems reorganization without
> massive capital and time sinks.  The hope is that SOA will shrink
> that cost significantly in most cases.

Our business process development is following a "lean" approach. This
approach in itself should help reduce the amount of effort that goes
into automation projects, especially as we make those efforts more
lean. I can see this now, and it appears to be a matter of
follow-through.

I am not sure yet how much SOA might contribute to this, but I can go
along with the hypothesis for now. I am sure we could spend some money
without much effort if we aren't paying attention.

8^)

-Patrick








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