| Title: |
Business Adaptability and Adaptation in SOA |
| Author: |
Richard Veryard |
| Publication Date: |
13 February 2004 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
How to benefit from SOA’s adaptability potential - In recent years, system adaptability has overtaken development productivity as the number one issue for IT management. CBDI recognizes SOA as a key strategy for achieving higher levels of adaptability; but we also recognize the management challenges in benefiting from this potential. |
| Backgrounder: |
A recent survey of Fortune 500 companies indicated that over 80% had altered their business model in a given two-year period. Two thirds of these – roughly half of the total respondents – claimed that this business change had been constrained by inflexible IT.
Within the IT industry we can compare the current interest in adaptability with the pursuit of productivity. For many years, the primary issue for IT management, and thus the primary focus for methods and tool vendors, was IT development productivity.
Managing adaptability as a target for improvement involves at least as many challenges as managing productivity – probably far more. We are still a long way from any recognizable metric of adaptability, we don’t really know exactly how business adaptability is related to IT adaptability.
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