Conferences
Podcast: SOA and Change
Back in September I shared with all of you the presentation I gave about SOA and Organization Change Management. Today I am happy to share the podcast from that discussion that took place at the quarterly SOA Consortium meeting in Orlando. Here are the slides.
And here is the podcast that goes with it.
The panel discussion at the tail end of the presentation is fantastic. There were a lot of great questions and many lessons learned shared from experts like Todd Biske, Brenda Michelson, Frank Bowen from IBM, and others. If you have the time, listen to this podcast. Failure to recognize and counteract the resistance to change is the number one cause of failure for all enterprise initiatives, not just SOA.
What are the keys to a successful SOA implementation?
I recently attended the SOA Consortium quarterly meeting in Orlando where they presented the winners of a contest sponsored by CIO.com that rewarded the best SOA case studies. As they discussed the six winners, I noticed a common theme and wrote about it on my weekly column for CIO.com.
So what are the commonalities of these successful SOA implementations?
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Strong Executive Level Sponsorship and SOA Evangelist
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Educating the Business of the Value of SOA
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Established a Center of Excellence (CoE)
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Start With Well-defined Business Processes and Scale Up
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Define Completeness of Work within Services
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Quality Assurance Is Key
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ROI Is Difficult to Achieve Initially and Is Realized Over Time
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They all delivered Substantial Business Value
Click here to read the entire article.
Speaking at the SOA Consortium
I will be in Orlando on September 25th speaking about SOA and Organizational Change Management. Go to my MadGreek Sightings blog for the details. I am also presenting at the EDM Summit in Orlando in October on the topic of Business Intelligence as a Service and at the AIIM International 2009 Conference in Philly about a BPM case study. If you would like me to present on any topics related to BPM, SOA, EA, Change Management, or technology in general, give me a shout and I would be happy to help out!
