SOA filling the Gaps

Steve Balmer. Picture source: Wikipedia The Professional manager and the Captive manager      were described in previous posts.  This post is dedicated to another manager type: The Conservative. Characteristics of The Conservative Manager The Conservative Manager's management style is described by his type: His goal is to preserve: The  Organization's Culture, The Business behaviour, The Business Lines, The Marketing Methods etc. Major Changes, Revolutions and Innovations are not expected.  Improved efficiency could be expected.  If the Conservative is a CEO or a company's President, then the whole company's patterns will be preserved. If he is a lower lever manager, then the patterns of the department or domain he is managing, will be preserved. Frequently, the Conservative Manager was a classic number 2 or number 3 in the hirarchy.  Classic in the above context is a long time employee who accumalated a lot of knowl...

Bob Dylan 's song  in is about The Times They Are A-Changin'. Information Technology Leading Vendors are also changing. If a company does not adapt to changes it may not Survive or it may Survive but no longer as The Market Leader.  The first three sections of the post are about Computers Industry Revolutions. The fourth is about, the current revolution. The sections following these sections, are a discussion of Microsoft's Survival probability. You can't compete with NCR Thomas Watson Jr. Source: Wikipedia When Thomas Watson Jr. replaced his father as IBM's president in 1956, he was told that he will not be able to compete with the Computers Industry Leader NCR .  In 1956 I was in a kinder garden. In the beginning of the decade starting on 1970, I was working as a junior Computers Programmer: IBM was the  Computers Industry Leader.   NCR is now a player in the Automatic Teller Machines, Retail Store Automation and Self-Service Kiosks mar...