{"product_id":"service-orient-or-be-doomed-how-service-orientation-will-change-your-business-hardback-9780471768586","title":"Service Orient or Be Doomed!; How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (Hardback) 9780471768586","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eService Orient or Be Doomed!\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Service Orientation Will Change Your Business\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJason Bloomberg (Author), Ronald Schmelzer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780471768586, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 March 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, Graphs: 8 B\u0026amp;W, 0 Color\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.504 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Service Orientation Will Change Your Business\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The real value of this book is that it makes SOA and Web services, which are critical and business-transforming, crystal-clear to the layman, both business and IT leaders. The book stays focused on the real-world issues facing business and government institutions today. In an industry full of experts of many stripes, Ron and Jason are the real thing: savvy, experienced, and realistic. They have produced a must-read book for management.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Paul Lipton, Senior Architect, Unicenter Web Services and Application Management Computer Associates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is by far the finest publication on SOA of our time. From cover to back, \u003ci\u003eService Orient or Be Doomed!\u003c\/i\u003e strips away the layers of confusion most IT stakeholders face when confronted with enterprise architecture, and illustrates pragmatic and practical paths towards a sustainable and efficient enterprise architecture. Both the technically savvy and the bean counters will enjoy this book that speaks to the critical points they need to understand.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Duane A. Nickull Senior Standards Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Chair, OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee Vice chair, United Nations CEFACT (UN\/CEFACT)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you're looking for a guide that's based on reality, this is it. These guys know how you can service-orient your enterprise and have the best chance of success. This book is the best SOA tool you can buy. I'm recommending it to everyone.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Dave Linthicum, CEO, BRIDGEWERX\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Jason and Ron are experts on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and have written the first book that is aimed at helping a nontechnical businessperson understand why the SOA computing revolution is critical to business. Rather than provide a nerdy death via buzzword book, Jason and Ron take a humorous, clever, and insightful romp through this new technology and how it impacts business in general.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthors Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer-senior analysts for highly respected IT advisory and analysis firm ZapThink-say it all in the title of their new book, \u003ci\u003eService Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business\u003c\/i\u003e. That is, if you fail to service orient your company, you will fail in competing with the organizations that do.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis provocative new book takes service orientation out of its more familiar technological surroundings within service-oriented architecture and introduces it as a philosophy that advocates its rightful place within a business context, redefining it as a new way of thinking about organizing your business and its processes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformal, challenging, and intelligent in style, \u003ci\u003eService Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business\u003c\/i\u003e shows you how you can best use technology resources to meet your company's business goals and empower your company to go from \"stuck\" to \"competitive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 1: The Business Inflexibility Trap.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mother of All Business Problems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne Constant Is Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompliance Conundrum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeed for Business Agility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 2: If You’re in a Hole, the First Thing to Do Is Stop Digging.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIT Decision Making’s Fatal Flaw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe IT “Rat’s Nest”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Are the Nerds Sitting at Their Own Table?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 3: What Really Happened to eBusiness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eeBusiness was a Great Idea, so What Happened?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eeBusiness Is Dead! Long Live eBusiness!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to Think like an eBusinessperson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Aren’t the Systems Integrators Helping Anymore?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrift: Get Used to It.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 4: What Do You Want Your IT to Do, Anyway?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEveryone’s a Grandma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiddleware: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutomation Paradox.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBusiness Process: Sweetness and Light or Evil Hellspawn?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMissing Link in the IT Chain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho’s in Control of IT Anyway?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 5: The Secret Sauce: Loose Coupling.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTale of Distributed Computing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower of Abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRole of Open Standards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRunning IT Like a Railroad.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to Think Loosely Coupled.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecret of the Best Ice Skaters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Loose Is Your Coupling?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 6: Service Orientation: Light at the End of the Tunnel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat’s a Service, Anyway?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices + Loose Coupling = Agility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProcess This!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Service-Oriented Process Replaces Traditional Integration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 7: Is There an Architect in the House?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Discipline of Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJust How Big Is the Big Picture?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePutting All the Pieces Together.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere Are the Architects?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhither the IT Department?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 8: How to Think Service Oriented.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Not to Use Service-Oriented Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKeeping Up with the Competition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eService Orientation for Big Fish.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eService Orientation for Small Fish.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSOA to Stay Out of Jail.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSOA for User Empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSOA for Value Chains.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 9: Okay, So Where Do We Start?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentifying the Problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChoosing Your Battles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTop-Down Planning and Bottom-Up Planning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCloser Look at Process Decomposition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFind Your Champion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 10: Tackling the Inertia in the Organization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelling Service Orientation to Your Boss, Team, and Company.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuantifying the Cost and the Return on the Service Orientation Investment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoney, Money, Money: Where Will It Come from to Pay for SOA?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaching the SOA Tipping Point.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn of the Luddites.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Service-Oriented Organization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 11: Build Agility with Agility.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeath to the Software Development Lifecycle!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLego Block Model of Service Orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour Pillars of Service-Oriented Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot Your Parents’ Requirements Gathering.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuild, Buy, or Repurpose?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReuse: The Holy Grail of IT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 12: Becoming a Service-Oriented Enterprise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking IT Matter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding Metaprocesses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnecting the Dots: Service Orientation, Outsourcing, and the Industrialization of IT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSunset of Legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVision of the Business Web.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Does It All Mean?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Business \u0026amp; 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