It's the context of how "flexibility" is often used. Flexibility does not equal profit nor in general term can it be said to be good for every business processes. I think it's necessary to propose a business process which may benefit from being flexible using SOA and quantively calculate the benefit.
H.Ozawa --- In [email protected], Michael Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "flexibility" has following metrics: > 1) how quickly a change may be adopted in the business solution (time-to-market) -T2M > 2) how costly to adopt a change in the business solution (investments) - INV > 3) cost of integrating the change into existing business solution landscape (impact) -IMP > > max (¡Æflexiblity¡Ç) = min {ô(T2M+INV+IMP)} > > > ROI is out of this picture because it belongs to another category than 'flexibility' > > What the ambiguity left? > > - Michael >
