Alignment Between Business and IS Strategies: A Study of Prospectors, Analyzers, and Defenders
Information Systems Research
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap
Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap
Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (The Coad Series)
Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (The Coad Series)
Efficient algorithms for Web services selection with end-to-end QoS constraints
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Service oriented architectures: approaches, technologies and research issues
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
A Framework for Assessing the Business Value of Information Technology Infrastructures
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Towards Service Engineering: Service Orientation and Business-IT Alignment
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
A lifecycle approach to SOA governance
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
IBM business transformation enabled by service-oriented architecture
IBM Systems Journal
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
SOA and Large Scale and Complex Enterprise Transformation
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
SOMA: a method for developing service-oriented solutions
IBM Systems Journal
SOA and EA - Sustainable Contributions for Increasing Corporate Agility
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
An Exploratory Study into IT Governance Implementations and its Impact on Business/IT Alignment
Information Systems Management
SOA Test Governance: Enabling Service Integration Testing across Organization and Technology Borders
ICSTW '09 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops
ICWS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Models and tools for SOA governance
TEAA'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Trends in enterprise application architecture
Critical Success Factors in SOA Implementation: An Exploratory Study
Information Systems Management
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While many firms have introduced SOA, only one in five have achieved anticipated benefits such as increased IT flexibility or reuse. Industry analysts assume that a lack of SOA governance is the main reason why SOA projects fail. Addressing the substantial research gap on SOA governance this paper theoretically and empirically investigates which SOA governance mechanisms are needed to achieve the benefits of SOA, such as increasing IT flexibility and reusing services. The proposed theoretical SOA governance model is evaluated using data from 81 SOA-using organizations. Overall, the results confirm the relevance of a variety of SOA governance mechanisms (structures, processes, and employees/relations), but at the same time, that IT infrastructure flexibility and service reuse are influenced by different mechanisms. Key governance mechanisms that show a strong effect on infrastructure flexibility are using standards, service management processes, educating employees, and IT/business communication while reuse can only be increased through service management, standards and qualification. Contrary to expectations, implementing new, dedicated decision-making bodies for SOA hampers organizations in achieving higher degrees of IT flexibility and reuse, and a firm is better off using existing IT decision-making bodies.