There has been a phenomenal growth in autonomous business services, fuelled largely by the internet and e-business. New business architectures are emerging, in which an enterprise is configured as a dynamic network of components providing business services to one another. This is component-based business - "plug-and-play" applied not to hardware and software, but to business relationships. Component-Based Business constitutes a radical challenge to traditional notions of strategy, planning, requirements, quality and change, and tries to help you improve how you think through the practical difficulties and opportunities of the component-based business. As this is a rapidly developing field, more up-to-date and detailed examples can be found on the website associated with this book: http://www.component-based-business.com, which also contains open forums in which your questions can be discussed. "In this work so far, Richard challenges conventional thinking with a sometimes breathtaking series of lateral thoughts that are essential reading for the component architect, designer and their customer. Strongly recommended."
David Sprott, Principal Analyst, CBDi Forum

JOINS THE BUSINESS WORLD WITH THE IT WORLD * MEETS THE GROWING INTEREST IN THE IT WORLD ABOUT BUSINESS PATTERNS, BUSINESS-IT ALIGNMENT AND CO-EVOLUTION Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction.- Systems Constructed from Building Blocks.- Components with Character: Principles Governing the Design and Use of Building Blocks.- Intelligent and Trustworthy Interfaces.- Evolutionary Change.- App. 1: Components.- App. 2: Systems.- App. 3: Background Material: Business Patterns.- App. 4: Intelligence is a Desirable Property of Systems.- Recommended Reading.- Other References.- Glossary.