7.1. FIRST THINGS FIRST: UNDERSTAND YOUR CURRENT ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
In order to structure an SOA governance model, you must understand how your organization is currently structured. Many business strategists have documented the impact of organization and structure on organizational performance.[] There is always a dramatic impact of organization and structure on the resulting performance of an organization, and with SOA governance, you can expect the same. In order to design a governance organization, you must begin with the corporate structure and organizational model first. What kind of organization do you work in? Functional? Divisionally structured? Matrixed? Product or geographically structured? This is important, because it has a direct bearing on how your IT organization is structured. Is the IT organization a mirror of corporate structure?
[] See Eric Marks, Business Darwinism: Evolve or Dissolve: Adaptive Strategies for the Business Age (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) for an interesting perspective on that.
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