This is a good question better than many around. Still the question is too narrow and considered as misconception so it is a flaw (hidden error).
It is like blind men describing what an elephant is like in terms of ear. The man who touches the ear is the manager and every one follows. Service is a higher level abstraction than Object as we all agree. But it is not the highest level of abstraction and not the only level of abstraction to describe an enterprise. So the more appropriate question would be like below. What is the holistic view of the enterprise in terms of levels of abstraction and how the separation of concerns of business and IT are related in the view? BTW, in the field of business reform, there is no best practice out there, what works for others normaly does not work for me from business perspective. From IT perspective, infrastracture capabilities are generic and can be made universal where maybe the only area we can talk about best practices. Business IT capabilities are unique to each business entity. Consider businesses as living system they truly are, no two individuls shall same bio properties, traits, and career priorities etc. Best reqards jerry zhu --- Walter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone pls. point me to any accepted best > practices around "re-organizing" for SOA ? While > much has been said about SOAGovernance in terms of > IT - I'm interested in the things which need to > happen to pro-actively manage the disruptive impact > that largescale SOA efforts will cause to the > organizational side that touches the busienss - > political - cultural landscape of an enterprise. As > the silos begin to break down - how to deal ahead of > time with the inevitable jockeying and resistance > which arises to block integration efforts because > people are worried about losing funding , control or > just the uncertainty? How best to bring stakeholders > together from an organizational perspective to get > the best > buy in ahead of time ? Have any of the standards > bodies considered this aspect of SOA? Any well known > publications / books on this topic ? I'm looking for > sources that "weighty" and credible that can be > quoted or pointed to - to help folks understand how > critical this is to large scale SOA > > Thanks in advance for your help. > Walter Clark > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Boardwalk > for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now > (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. > http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow >
