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More big vs small thinking: SOA vs BPM

I was on the way back to the office from a briefing with BPM vendor Pegasystems yesterday, where we’d had an interesting discussion about the relative roles that BPM and SOA can play in business transformation for customers. We agreed that BPM, done right, is as much of a discipline that organisations can use to [...]

Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 by

Early praise for SOA strategy planning tool

Just saw this great comment from Enterprise Architect blogger James McGovern. This site is incredibly useful. It was developed by MWD so you know it is of high quality. Thanks so much James – what an endorsement! If you want to get to grips with your competency levels in the context of SOA, and learn [...]

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 by

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Getting the right focus for IT governance

I’ve long been a fan of Nick Malik’s blog – and indeed it was his blog that led me to ask him if he’d be happy to be interviewed for our book on IT-business alignment. In this post Nick nails quite a few aspects of IT governance, and explains how they fit in the context [...]

Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 by

New SOA strategy planning tool – live from today

Today we’re delighted to announce that our SOA strategy planning tool, hosted at www.itstrategyplans.com/soa, is now live. This is a new thing for us and if you’re interested in SOA, we think you’ll find it useful.What we’ve launched is a comprehensive, interactive, and vendor-independent online tool that goes much further than IT vendors’ own online [...]

Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 by