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January 26, 2005

Asset Inventory

While most businesses manage a physical inventory, the repository provides an inventory of assets that are informative by nature. Charles Handy (2003) indicated that organizations will still be critically important in the new world, but as “Organizers” not employers. Will the technology community become an organizer or assembler of assets in the future? The trend is already underway and the asset inventory will be as critical to the success of the SOA as training is to the professional athlete. Do you have trouble describing a Java program or XML schema as an asset? For years, we have been declaring that programs, systems, and databases are assets of the corporation and when that kind of language begins to make its way into the business, we cringe. Could it be that we didn’t really want the business to look at our products and services as assets? This kind of thinking is an evolution that must be embraced by the technical community in order to continue to deliver value to the business.

Posted by Todd at January 26, 2005 12:37 AM