CIO Insight on 5 Actions to succeed with SOA

I always like to collect different people’s lists to get to success. Here is CIO Insight’s list for SOA:

• Retool the IT Department
• Establish an Oversight Group to Get Results
• Catalog Services to Enable Reuse
• Monitor Performance
• Coordinate IT and the Business

VRM, healthcare, and you in control of YOUR information

Just listened to Technometria: Managing Vendors Before They Manage You on IT Conversations (hosted by Phil Windley).

I may be dense, but I didn’t quite see the connection between Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) and what Britt Blaser of the Open Resource Group, but I digress.

The whole idea of VRM is interesting, but in particular the thorny issue of healthcare. They talked about health records and enabling people to own and control their health records. The conclusion seemed to be that while it was a grand idea, it would be one of the tougher domains to try this in.

Right after I listened to it, I read a post on Google’s blog where Adam Bosworth (a VP at Google) appears to be taking on the charge of doing something to try to fix the healthcare information flow and control. He recently posted on the topic: Health care information matters.

Perhaps a little Google juice will get this ball rolling. While healthcare may be one of the hardest nuts to crack, if you swing big and miss on this one for VRM, perhaps it will give cover and drive for something smaller.