Global collaboration and emerging corporate cultures are creating a new type of innovative enterprise: one that is based on services. Service orientation is about culture, a new service focused approach of doing business. Service orientation is also about technology, a standards and effective way of connecting businesses. Each party or participant in service orientation sees themselves as service provider as well as a service consumer, in an increasingly well connected global economy. This book focuses both on the cultural service dimension, as well the emerging architecture of service orientation. Three essential trends in particular are coming together to create a new revolutionary breed of enterprises, the Service Oriented Enterprise.
