Business agility research and insights

Making sense of SOA and today's IT innovation

CIOs need to understand IT initiatives like SOA, Web 2.0, cloud computing and virtualization not as independent innovations, but as interrelated concepts that can help close the gap between IT and our own service-oriented needs.

Conversations for a Smarter Planet: A mandate for change is a mandate for smart

Our political leaders are not the only ones who have been handed a mandate for change. Leaders of businesses and institutions everywhere have a unique opportunity to transform the way the world works.

Five best practices for deploying a successful service-oriented architecture: Leveraging lessons learned from the IBM Academy of Technology

A team of IBM's top technologists initiated a study of SOA Foundation deployments to identify a set of best practices based on successful outcomes.

Reaping the rewards of your service-oriented architecture infrastructure

Organizations in many different industries have invested in an SOA design approach, leveraged an SOA infrastructure—and uncovered unique business value.

Impact 2008: CIO panel

CIOs discuss business process transformation at this panel presentation moderated by InfoWorld at the Impact 2008 event. (Registration required)

The future of business: Aligning business and IT to create an enduring impact on industry

Today's successful CIO must be single-mindedly driven to use technology to make their business more successful.

How ready are you for operational SOA?

Making a successful transition from SOA pilot to full production requires CIOs to address many issues.