I have recently published an article in the Israeli Public Sector Newsletter.
The main idea I was interviewed about was the current hot trend of SOA.
Today SOA is discussed not only by IT mangaers, but also by the CxO level of organizations. Organizations are now realizing that they need to have a flexible IT infrastructure in order to enable changes in the organzations and become more agile. The reason that becoming agile is of interest to CxOs is that it means reducing costs and answering market needs faster or in other words increasing revenue.
In order to make a tranisition to SOA, an organization needs the following: (1) Appointing architects with a wide systematic view and long term vision (2) Guidance and Commitment of senior management (3) Map the organizational needs and aim for alignment between them and the services provided by the IT systems.
In the rest of the article, I discuss the benefits of realizing SOA with Microsoft where the important emphasis is put on the business architecture methodology called Motion on which I blogged in a previous post.
To make a short story long, you can read the interview here.
However, be warned, yet again this is in Hebrew....