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[ Technology ] SOA as Radical Incrementalism

It is hard to disagree with John Seely Brown and John Hagel III's characterization of SOA as radical incrementalism.

In fact, in this, they seem to be agreeing very closely with others such as Adam Bosworth, for example.

Here's a sample of what Brown and Hagel say (in their critique of Nicholas G. Carr's article "IT Doesn't Matter" originally published in the May 2003 issue of HBR):

Far from settling down into a dominant design or architecture, IT has crashed through several generations of architectures and continues to generate new ones. In fact, the emerging service-oriented architectures enable a kind of radical incrementalism that transcends what one might expect from simple incrementalism. Coupled with a strategy focused on both short-term wins and long-term goals, this new incrementalism is a source of competitive advantage.

John Seely Brown and John Hagel III's in "Does IT Matter? An HBR Debate" (Harvard Business Review, June 2003)

SOA leads to "short-term wins" because of its focus on loose coupling of services and the fact that services can be as modest as one desires to make them. It meets "long-term goals" because it allows incremental integration, improvements, updates, modifications and changes in response to requirements that collect rapidly due to continuous use of the service. (Bosworth has already noted this subtle point.)

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