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| cobus.smit | Posted on: 2008/6/5 6:17 |
Moderator   Joined: 2003/1/11 From: Global Posts: 557 |
Is reuse a business or an IT problem? Seems like a simple question.
Scenario: You have multiple business units that want to operate on a single IT platform (using service-oriented styles and nice stable implementation standards). Over time things start to converge slightly, and then all of a sudden...divergence. This may be a cyclical occurance, yet I'm trying to find out whether multiple business units that share some similar and some variant requirements should use IT to responsibly handle the analysis and stand accountable when things go wrong. If you're organisational structure is not geared for this kind of "reuse" oriented style of operation, then surely businesses need to come together and talk about their synergies and ease the pressure of IT who effectively only executes on mandates (whether they are in conflict with business level reuse or not). I could be wrong, but until business gets up and owns the technical beast, they shouldn't complain about not getting the benefits that were "promised under certain conditions". Its like complaining about government, and not bothering to turn up for the election to cast your vote... You can blame governance all you want, but this trick is getting a bit old I say. Don't expect miracles from SOA styled implementations when your head is still bottled up in a silo. If you want to be automomous - be autonomous, but don't forget the bigger picture.
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| Jurgens Pieterse | Posted on: 2008/6/5 7:23 |
Moderator  Joined: 2005/5/5 From: systemiclogic.com Posts: 156 |
Re: Is reuse a business or an IT problem? Both IT and Business is responsible to optimise reuse but they do it from different perspectives. In IT it is one of the prime directives to drive down the cost of distributing and managing information. The directive is often secondary for business. Business will put a higher value on the availability of information. If reuse is going to make a process more cumbersome or slower then business will rather go for a customised version of a solution than a reuse solution. The first priority for business is to stay in the game of business and the secondary issue will be the optimisation of resources. In the long run the IT focus might save money but business first must make sure there is a market to serve. The enterprise architect must find the best solution that balances the priority differences between business and IT.
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| ben.clohesy | Posted on: 2008/8/4 22:24 |
Not too shy to talk   Joined: 2008/2/29 From: SL Australia Posts: 12 |
Re: Is reuse a business or an IT problem? My vote is for IT problem...
 The reasoning being that the business don't want re-use - they want reduced costs, increased value, greater throughput etc. etc. The closest concept is probably 'standardisation' - which in turn enables organisations to unbundle their offerings and source from different locations. They don't want to have to think about re-use - they expect their partner in the supply chain to deal with it. The IT crowd on the other hand are inherently working with dematerialised assets and are happy to acknowledge the liquidity inherent in technology (maybe inherent is a bit strong...). What I'm stumbling towards is that the way in which the IT crowd talk about re-use needs to be refined - they need to be considering the way in which it will drive standardisation and the creation of a set of assets that the business don't need to worry about. And finally, I think that re-use is probably too simplistic - we can't really re-use the services we create - however they can be re-shaped through business context usage (i.e. be polymorphic) and they can in turn help to shape the landscape. Cheers, BC
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