What are the business goals Service-oriented architecture is aiming to achieve? What are the success criteria that will indicate that Service-oriented architecture objectives have been met and the benefits delivered? Do we monitor the Service-oriented architecture decisions made and fine tune them as they evolve? Who will be responsible for deciding whether Service-oriented architecture goes ahead or not after the initial investigations? How do you use Service-oriented architecture data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation?

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

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