http://smartenoughsystems.com/wp/2007/12/12/live-from-the-soa-consortium-cio-soa-concerns/ Delivering competitive advantage with smarter systems through automating decisions Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:38:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://smartenoughsystems.com/wp/2007/12/12/live-from-the-soa-consortium-cio-soa-concerns/#comment-9489 Blogging Live from IMPACT - Opening Keynotes Part I » Smart (Enough) Systems, the blog Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:02:36 +0000 http://smartenoughsystems.com/wp/2007/12/12/live-from-the-soa-consortium-cio-soa-concerns/#comment-9489 [...] Robert LeBlanc from IBM started the real information. In all IBM’s surveys, change is the theme with business model innovation, global integration, talent management and business transparency all showing up again and again. Innovation, he says, is key to growth companies (along with organic and acquisition). Agility and an ability to evolve is a characteristic of innovating companies. A Service-Oriented company knows their customers, continually evolve, continuously improve, drive loyalty and become indispensable. This lead to a discussion of Key Agility Indicators (about which I have blogged before). [...] [...] Robert LeBlanc from IBM started the real information. In all IBM’s surveys, change is the theme with business model innovation, global integration, talent management and business transparency all showing up again and again. Innovation, he says, is key to growth companies (along with organic and acquisition). Agility and an ability to evolve is a characteristic of innovating companies. A Service-Oriented company knows their customers, continually evolve, continuously improve, drive loyalty and become indispensable. This lead to a discussion of Key Agility Indicators (about which I have blogged before). [...]

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