Must have a lot of people have played the "killing game" - in a neutral under the auspices of a judge, according to the analysis and judgments of other people, as quickly as possible "murderer" and win, otherwise fail.
Killing some of the game have such roles: judges, police, civilians, killer.Judges to remain neutral, in which killers can kill police and civilians, the victory condition is kill the killer before the police find the killer or civilians.The biggest difficulty of this game is to identify true and false statements of other people.
Contrast today's enterprises, "killing game" very much like the process of implementing SOA.CEO if the judge, he knows business goals, enterprises face the problem clearly, but he does not know how to solve mention I; IT technical staff is equivalent to the police, they direct staff to build SOA, but do not understand technical issues clearlybusiness; business unit personnel are civilians, from his point of view have their own judgments; and "killer" is the external challenges of change brought about by information technology.
In the "killing game", the unspoken rules is the information is not shared, this is like building SOA in the enterprise is difficult to reconcile the interests of the relations and poor communication, getting the SOA is difficult to achieve.
Seeking the same predicament
Killing the game played all know, because we can not share the information, resulting in lack of trust between each other, the biggest difficulty of the game is also here.
Today, many organizations within the state that the information is not shared to the equivalent of the relationship between police and civilians, the first is the lack of trust, followed by communication barriers, then that is reward mechanisms.
Enterprises in various sectors, these sectors play different roles, such as "fighting at the front," the sales department, marketing department to provide basic support, "conveying shells," the production sector, the rear support of human resources, IT departments, etc.,They have their own features and benefits.
A good organization or enterprise, and only when it becomes rapid communication of information, the reaction was the most sensitive overall combat effectiveness.We are very clear example of the failure: the enterprise for their own array, connected to each other's problems and so on.But in reality, this is still a lot of presence.
According to International Data Group (IDG) recent SOA survey, more than half of companies believe that their organization and management issues facing the implementation of the main obstacles to SOA.In the survey, 95% of the respondents expressed their understanding of "service infrastructure", and began spending has focused on new technology to solve major technical problems.One of the most important challenges to integrate with existing applications, 67% of companies think that this is a major challenge.
In the implementation of SOA, you need to first package of existing IT systems, which means that we want to some of the existing IT systems transformation, you need to get through the barriers between business units to achieve the business sector data sharing, which mayneed to change business processes.In the process of changing the business process, it will naturally be involved in organizing the interests and relationships between departments, and even may change the organizational structure.
Moreover, since the implementation of SOA, the enterprise may also lead to "earthquake."Regardless of the "earthquake" is big or small, for businesses are not easily accepted.Therefore, it is now heard in parallel SOA thought their impact, naturally, SOA will be rejected.
As the implementation of various IT departments and business units difficult to reach a common awareness and understanding, the integrity of all the problems have in common is their reward system for every department are difficult to define, and all need tocontribution, over a period of time to get a return.This is an organization itself is a big obstacle.Can be seen, the establishment of SOA needs to build a corporate structure, need to open their own information for each department as a prerequisite, it is easy to involve the interests of each department.
It's like "killing game", it would be difficult between the police and civilian uniform, they tend to occur among the very violent conflicts, as they are judged according to their own, from the perspective of the interests of their own problems.
This is a very typical social psychological phenomenon - multiple prisoners game.Game is a multi-multi-prisoners game, it has a feature that asymmetric information with each other, but also do not want to share information, but everyone wants to pursue their own interests the most, which is the cause of difficulties.
For example, Beijing has conducted at least three times a second ring transformation, and spend more money than the last, but with little success.To solve this problem is not a simple thing, the government, builders, designers, managers, driving those common problems, only to strictly abide by traffic regulations required is not possible to completely solve the problem.
In addition, the enterprise SOA implementation issues and challenges faced by many, "One is not a complete platform, in other words not a complete IT architecture; the second is not a complete implementation of the methodology; Third, does not have areserve; biggest problem is management of the above, and now business-oriented IT companies, which are not to serve as the center. "BEA Systems (China) Co., Ltd Technical Director Yu Sicheng combed the obstacles in front of enterprises in the SOA.
Judges to "speak"
How to resolve conflicting interests, and information barriers to shield it? Key is CEO.This is like the "killing game", if the judge could speak, then the killer certainly visible.Building SOA is also true, if the CEO has the ability to control the entire company, then the implementation of SOA will be a great chance of success.
In terms of what kind of business most in need of SOA, then the large, large enterprises must be the most urgent, because the more the greater the need for information sharing enterprise.But in fact, in the Asia Pacific region, with a lot of IT assets in enterprises is not the first implementation of enterprise SOA, the first successful implementation of SOA is a medium-sized enterprises, in particular, with innovative companies CEO.
This phenomenon is due to medium-sized enterprises in the CEO problem for the control of the company stronger, with a strong unified implementation capacity.While large enterprises, CEO throughout the company's ability to control some of the relatively weak, leading to SOA implementation more difficult.
For large enterprises, a good CEO, CIO system is the best right hand man.While many companies are now equipped with CIO, but its status and authority far and multinationals, and a considerable number of Chinese enterprises, only sector IT managers.The result is clear even if the corporate CEO's can not correctly solve the problem.
"SOA works great, there are two ways, first from the top down, CIO build the overall planning; First, bottom-up, begin small. If the top-down to implementation, there are a lot of preparatory work, including personnel, the implementation methodology, preparation of technology and products, there is still important to manage the preparation, must match the existing business is a side broken sides of the process, not immediately after the first break or after the establishment of the first break. "Yusi Chengthat more bottom-up implementation of the current domestic SOA, if the CEO and CIO to implement SOA with construction, then many problems will evaporate.
Business development to grow from the organization to face the two threshold, the first seven or eight individuals from the bucket into the development of dozens of people, there will be class distinction may appear split; second ridge is that when companies meet the scale of hundreds of peopleWhen to involve a question of business survival.From 50 years ago to the present, 500 companies retained only about 10%.So, when developed to the growth period, the business is very need some standardized instructions or information would be chaos.So building SOA, information sharing, sharing is necessary.
Short-lived compared to enterprises, universities, the special business is very long life, can generally be easily developed for hundreds of years, of which the most important reason is the University to share information as the theme.See information sharing and transparency for how the meaning of an enterprise.