Monday, February 23, 2009

Quick thoughts

I think I am finally more clear in SOA. I still have a hard time understanding the practicality of the concept but actually the 7-minute video that we watched on a previous session made a huge difference. I finally saw everything that we had been talking about graphically represented through a video….the dynamism and flexibility that the portlets provided to those employees was amazing and if it is truly all built in a standardized way, the interaction possibilities among different stakeholders are endless. Definitely caught my attention.

On a side note, regarding the discussion about knowledge management vs. knowledge exchange. Knowledge management is more stagnant, always the same methods are used for solving a problem (provided they worked in the past). There is no capturing of tacit knowledge of new ways of looking at issues, so knowledge exchange definitely adds more value than knowledge management. The information exchange is crucial to be able to take businesses to new levels. The word “exchange” itself spells out dynamism, the possibility of obtaining insights that can lead to wisdom in an information based enterprise.

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