| Title: |
Editorial: Getting to Grips with Agility |
| Author: |
David Sprott |
| Publication Date: |
29 January 2010 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Editorial |
| Abstract: |
Over the past few months I have been exploring how SOA is morphing into BAU (business as usual). The parallels with Climate Change are uncanny. There is a highly vocal lobby that would tell you SOA is not happening, yet all the evidence from both personal experience and industry surveys tells us that SOA is happening for real. How often have we observed that after the hype has died down, real learning and rollout just happens quietly and in private?
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| Backgrounder: |
As SOA marketing spend diminishes and is overtaken by new kids on the block such as Cloud, Virtualization, Green IT, Social Software, Application Modernization and so on, the business agility message is being used ever more widely. No surprise because there is intense post recession interest in managing change as enterprises drive out costs and reprioritize to focus on new business opportunities.
Yet in many cases the use of the term agility is a stretch. At least SOA marketers could reasonably claim that service based products genuinely would reduce coupling. But the core issue is that business agility is an elusive concept and no one gets held to account because the agility offering is unquantifiable. We might wonder how many buyers of SOA products and services feel in retrospect, and whether with 20:20 hindsight they might consider the claims for agility were over stated! |
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1 page |
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