Service Orientation can be used at the strategic level as well as at the operational level and because you are using one mindset and context through from the strategic to the operational it makes it easier to ensure one is aligned to the other than those that require context and semantic translations.
Steve 2009/1/8 Hicham ELASRI <[email protected]>: > > > I agree with you, but it remains a point is that SOA is the operational > level, may not meet the requirements of strategic levels. > > Hicham > > > > --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Michael Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Michael Poulin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [service-orientated-architecture] SOA and strategic alignment > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 11:13 AM > > SOA, i.e. service orientation, is the core of the enterprise business. If > such orientation would be cascaded down to the low-level business > operational teams and to IT, this will exactly address "strategic > alignment", not only between Business and IT but also between Business and > Market (external environment) . > Thus, all "business processes" would be working within their business > services and IT products would address business strategic goals first, and > daily operations - second (as a left-overs of previous strategic goals > adopted to the market changes). Unfortunately, today, we have a reversed > picture where IT contribution into strategic business goals > is steadily disappear ing on the way from IT to the business top. > - Michael > ________________________________ > From: Hicham ELASRI <hicham_elasri@ yahoo.com> > To: service-orientated- architecture@ yahoogroups. com > Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:35:24 PM > Subject: [service-orientated -architecture] SOA and strategic alignment > > how can SOA contribue in the strategic alignment? > Hicham > Baront > > >
