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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 7

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. Chapter 7 is about the "typical” barriers to implementing SOA throughout an organization. The authors added this chapter in the 2nd edition following a suggestion by Avrami Tzur (VP of SOA at HP). The End of Business as Usual”].

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It was about SOA all along!

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

After reading some recent articles on his blog I quickly realized I had to read his latest book about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) titled: " Mashup Corporations. And the most amazing is that I never even mentioned SOA. I was recently introduced to Andy Mulholland by a mutual friend. The End of Business as Usual ”.

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It was about SOA all along! (Chapter 1)

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. Here are my thoughts after reading chapter 1 of the book " Mashup Corporations. This book illustrates its arguments with the help of a tale of a fictitious company Vorpal going through the process of implementing SOA.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 4

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: " Mashup Corporations. Chapter 4 is about how SOA can transform the relationships with your suppliers. I will quote from the book how a Vorpal supplier defines these SOA-driven relationships it has built with it's customers (p.57). They help each other out.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 6

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. Chapter 6 is about "Internal IT” or the effect the SOA transformation can/should have on the internal IT department/functions. The functions must mirror the key business processes that SOA has formalized. The End of Business as Usual”].

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It was about SOA all along! Chapters 2 & 3

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. When I state that my writings on this blog were about SOA all along, I mean that SOA is probably the best value-adding, customer-facing, tangible web-based implementation (that I know) of a knowledge leveraging strategy.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 5

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. In my defence, it is probably the most important chapter of the book judging from the powerful messages it conveys. Such forward-looking leadership is indeed a must for a successful SOA implementation. The End of Business as Usual”].

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