A number of customers that I work with on a regular basis make a common mistake that reminds of the fads in the health and fitness, they want to buy SOA just like everyone want to buy the fitness pills. Is there something like SOA in a box? Is SOA something you can buy, unwrap and start using?

When we talk about creating smart solutions the first reaction is always to create something. A differen view on creating smarter solutions could be about removing something.. Lets call that something "complexity".

I like to take ideas from business and germinate them across technology projects to enable different thinking. In one of my recent readings "Blue Ocean Strategy" I encountered a well defined framework that enables creative thinking.

Just came back from watching the movie "Kung Fu Panda" and few sayings from the master Oogway really stuck me. One of them was 'There are no accidents". I cannot stop but wonder how that applies to enterprise architecture, working with it on a regular basis.

Organizations do what they are doing, by design not by accident. It applies even more in a context when IT organizations are hard pressed to align IT investments with business value and focus on Enterprise Architecture as a discipline.