tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61965041990815532152024-09-17T11:26:30.013+05:30This blog is about delivering business excellence and operational efficiency through integration competency center models and about topics of SOA, Integration in the enterprise context.Rakesh Mishrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497186804895891966noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196504199081553215.post-805355354515670022009-04-01T20:23:00.000+05:302009-04-01T20:25:07.703+05:30

Next in the next-generation strategy kit is: “High degree of collaboration of the ICC across stakeholders that allows more transparency in the engagement and leads to co-creation of methods of delivery/operation of ICC with stakeholders”.Basic premise for this view-point is the evolution of the working model for ICC. A typical model for shared services has ‘close door’ system or ‘black box’

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Finally organizations are coming to the terms of reality of multiple-integration platforms in their landscape. There was a time in not so distant past when clients were thinking to have a single middleware, struggling to migrate all the legacy of their enterprise on the so called ‘middleware of strategic choice’ (whatever it would have been for them at that point in time) and spending great deal

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I can almost call it a trend as I see it happening again and again, case after the case. As soon as enterprises get active on SOA, apart from SOA technology platform and business service pilot concerns enterprises get their ideas bubbling around ‘SOA competency center’. It is an invariable expectation of having some sort of competency

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My experience with some of the enterprise clients in SOA space has been rather surprising. I find lots of these enterprises rushing to create a SOA roadmap and deploy a pilot SOA program. My trouble is not that they want to do it fast and want to have quick win but having it done at the cost of 'insufficient' understanding of what they want and why they want is my

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1168&tag=nl.e539 (Debate Rages over SOA's cloudy future - by Joe McKendrick) I stumbled upon this article while reading some articles. As I read it, I heard a 'click' sound in my brain :-). My previous post of SOA's future, I speculated about fading of SOA's strongly hypothetical personality

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I’m calling it a story since it is yet to happen…more ambitious word for this will be ‘vision’. But given that ‘SOA’ and ‘vision’ have been beaten to death in last couple of years so let me continue with the story only. Key word in the title really is not the ‘story’ though..it is the ‘main-stream’ and soon you will see why. One of

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I’m not really surprised to see the love-hate relationship between senior executives who own the integration portfolio and the ‘strategy consultants’ in my observation. Its love-hate dynamics because on one side where senior IT leadership strongly believes that a ‘strategic’ view is needed for creating the reliable roadmap for their initiatives, at the same time, there is really

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In my last blog post of this series, I talked about the next-generation highlights of the ICC. First one in the list says: Next generation competency centers will make it lot easier to execute and manage the changes than how it is today. That will transform the role of 'change' from 'threat' to 'opportunity'.Reason why I see it coming because I see today ‘ability to change’ to be

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Factually, that’s the not the most popular question being asked by my clients so far. Potential reason could be that most of the enterprises are still catching up to establish an operational competency center capability. ‘What next’ has been the idea that I have been tossing every year in my mind since last 8 years as far as evolution of competency center is concerned. And I’m

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