Howard Smith is co-chair of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) and CTO for Computer Sciences Corporation in Europe. He can be reached at howard.smith@ontology.org. Howard is co-author with Peter Fingar of the forthcoming book: Business Process Management: The Third Wave (mkpress.com)
What has surprised everyone in the past few years is how challenging it has
been to actually do e-business. One of the reasons why this is so is that
companies have found it difficult to manage their business processes,
especially when they stretch across multiple systems, software applications,
companies, and countries. That's about to change.
It must change, because shareholders still expect companies to fulfill the
promise of e-business. As Doug Neal of CSC's Research Services reports,
"Companies are under pressure to perform better, faster; to do more with
less; and to be super pleasing to customers. This means changing the way they
manage their business processes, allowing them to innovate around their own
strategic processes while simultaneously collaborating with ... (more)
The Component Based Development Forum, an analyst firm and think tank
covering business software creation, reuse, and management, recently wrote,
"Service Orientation - So What?" They went on to explain,
"First we had Web Services. Then we realized that Web Services were simply a
technology, and we needed architecture to manage the loose coupling of pretty
much everything. For a time SOA ... (more)
Howard Smith is co-chair of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) and CTO for Computer Sciences Corporation in Europe. He can be reached at howard.smith@ontology.org. Howard is co-author with Peter Fingar of the forthcoming book: Business Process Management: The Third Wave (mkpress.com)
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