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Practitioners Opinion on the Role of a CTO

Created on 05/07/2008 at 02:34PM by Yogish Pai

These days there are a lot of discussions on the role of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), especially as large and small organizations are planning to leverage Information Technology in a strategic manner. As technology is changing at a very rapid pace, enterprises now have a unique ability to leverage them for providing innovative solution to leapfrog their competition. As the role of the CTO is relatively new, there are various roles CTOs play in an organization resulting in many senior executives expressing confusion about what is and should be the exact role of the CTO.

The objective of this Opinion paper to briefly describe my views on the role of the Chief Technology Officer and is roughly based on the white paper Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success by Tom Berray (Primary Author) and Raj Sampath (Secondary Author). Unlike their white paper in 2002 where they categories the CTO’s into four categories, my opinion is that in this current age CTOs need to have all these attributes.

Please click hear for the Opinion Paper.

Tags: CTO, IT Organization, Roles, SOA

Introducon to Services-Oriented OS

Created on 04/21/2008 at 08:28PM by Yogish Pai

IT Organizations today need to procure a lot of additional infrastructure components (hardware and software) to adopt SOA. This increases both the IT capital expenditure as well as operating cost in terms of head count required to support the infrastructure. There should be a simpler way. Wouldn't it be easier to just deploy a single software (an OS???) on all the hardware and configure (deploy) solutions on them on as needed basis?

Please click here for my blog on this topic.

Tags: Convergance, Foundation Components, Innovation, MDA, Operating Systems, Services-Oriented, SO/OS, SOA

End of an Applications???

Created on 04/15/2008 at 12:01PM by Yogish Pai

Read my response to Todd's and Surekha's blog on "End of Applications" here.

Tags: Applications, best Practice, Busines Vocabulary, Key Learnings, SOA

SOA Practitioners Opinion on Business Architecture

Created on 02/19/2008 at 11:14PM by Yogish Pai

As Enterprises are starting to adopt Services-Oriented Architecture, they are currently in the process of transforming both their Business and IT organizations. In this context there has been a discussion on the topic of Business Architecture with a basic consensus that Business architecture is the link between business and technology (or IT) but there isn’t any clear definition of the roles and responsibilities of this position. Nor is there clear descriptions of the practical aspects of what exactly are the Business Architect’s activities and how should enterprises get started with this function. The objective of this paper to help clarify these points from a practitioner’s point of view as well as help organization kick-start the Business Architecture function.

Table of Contents:

Industry Context
Enterprise Value Discipline
How Organizations Learn

Introduction to Business Architecture
Business Architecture Defined
Business Architecture Responsibilities

Getting Started with Business Architecture
Adopting Services-Oriented Architecture
Business Driven SOA Planning Framework
Business Architecture Governance
Enterprise Architecture Governance
Enterprise Architecture Organization Structure

Proven Approach to Business Architecture Blueprinting
Developing the Business Architecture Blueprint

Conclusion

Tags: Business Agility, Architecture, SOA, SOA best practices

Key Learnings: SOA forcing IT Organizations to focus on their core competencies

Created on 02/07/2008 at 11:00AM by Yogish Pai

Over the last few months I have had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT organization in the silicon valley and am happy to report that most of them are either in the process or have already adopted SOA. By adopting SOA - it has forced the IT leadership to focus on their core competencies. Most of them are primarily focused on the fundamentals such as:

What was surprising to me was that even though most of the us early adopters have shared our key learning and best practices on blogs such as this, most IT organizations are still struggling to focus on their core competencies - such as defining the roles and responsibilities of each teams, separations of development and support teams, communicating IT goals to all teams, establishing Enterprise Architecture teams and defining and enforcing the application life cycle (services life cycle come next).

If this is the state in the heart of the hi-tech industry, woder how it is out there in other industries? It would great to get the feedback on what the rest of you are observing .

Tags: best Practice, IT Organization, SOA Adoption | 1 comment

Fostgering Grass Root Innovation at Adobe

Created on 02/07/2008 at 10:58AM by Yogish Pai

I did get the opportunity last month to attend a talk by Rick Bess, Idea Mentor on "Fostering Grass Root Innovation at Adobe". This was a monthly meeting scheduled by Sillicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA). I found this very interesting and his presentation is available here. Alternately, the slides are also available here. I would highly recommend that you watch his presentation - will be worth your while.

Tags: Adobe, Idea Mentor, Innovation, SOA

SOA levels for business

Modified on 01/10/2008 at 03:12AM by Anand Gopalan

I find more and more definitions of SOA being floated out every day , also hundreds of new chapters on SOA Business benefits. I feel selling of SOA is already been done , Every business organization which has not implemented SOA so far, has already realized the need for it. But what they lack is the customized plan to take the SOA Route for its business problem