| Abstract: |
CBDi Forum Journal - April 1999 Component and Integration Architectures Looking at today’s business and technology scenarios, one cannot help being reminded of quotes from Tom Peter’s book, ‘Thriving on Chaos, Handbook for a Management Revolution’, written back in 1987, which 12 years later is clearly ringing true: "Nothing is predictable". "We don’t know who our competitors will be, or where they will come from". "We don’t know whether merging or de-merging makes more sense, and we have no idea who will be partners with whom tomorrow or next week, let alone next month". "No firm can take anything for granted….this is the |