SOA as a Continual Improvement Initiative

Sometimes things happen that are seemingly unrelated but the timing and topics are alarmingly similar. I was speaking to a technologist about selling Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches to companies. The struggle is that it is very much an IT sell and it should be a business sell. Using my strategy mapping mentality I related how I first find a couple of key strategies from executive discussions and then tie tactical technology enabling projects to them. This usually opens executive’s eyes to projects that are aligned, or not aligned, with strategies. But we came to no conclusions about how to …read more