
28 Patterns: Extended Enterprise SOA and Web Services
3.1 Overview of Extended Enterprise
In the past, executives had the luxury of assuming that business models were
more or less immortal. Companies always had to work to get better… but they
seldom had to get different—not at their core. (From “The Quest for Resilience,”
Gary Hamel and Liisa Valikangas, Harvard Business Review, September 2003)
But during the last 10 years we have seen an increasing number of organizations
forced to get different, and not just better, to survive.
As more organizations are looking to streamline their core business processes,
an inherent need to both outsource noncritical ...