For Success in the Enterprise, Think Platform:Software architecture is an unintended consequence of social architecture, Smith says. If you have a dysfunctional organization, and you build software to align with it, youre going to get dysfunctional software. We need to go in with our eyes open and understand. This may exacerbate issues. Dont expect putting new technology is going to change that. it often exacerbates issues.
Joe McKendrick is referring to David M. Smith from Gartner and discusses briefly the difference of SOA and Web 2.0 in terms of customer acceptance. The latter requires less changes in the business processes and therefore is more easily deployable.
That might be true but think of Smith's notion of the paradigm shift that's underway and not easily digested, accepted and utilized. This paradigm shift is about a move from monolithic platforms that reside in the bunkers of corporations to the web as a platform. This is an important issue especially relevant for SMEs, I think. If you conceive of the web as platform that hosts your business tools than you have to grasp the idea of a virtual and distributed platform. You don't put it somewhere although you can host parts of the internet on your premises - as long as those servers are connected to the rest of the network you can harness its benefits. The success factor of a platform is its ability to accommodate an ecosystem. That means think precisely how your platform (this small part of the internet) supports exchange and conversation based on open standards.
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