In a former post I gave you my first thought about what I walled SOO or Service Oriented Organizaton. A recent post from Oscar Berg about SOA gave me more ideas about this.

According to him it’s important to focus on reuse which is the very basis of SOA. It is essentiel to isolate, prior to anything, which services have to be reused by others in order to make them become components on which other services will rely.

If I try to apply the same theory to organization, the fact is it’s impossible to know what will be reusable. So a system has to be set tup in order to isolate reusable knowledge and make it “solid knowledge” with a process that solidifies gaseous information. Which implies companies have to hire best practices hunters.

But there are also what I call “golden nuggets”, which are too specific or not strategic enough to be “solidified” but may still be useful for anyone, knowing information’s value is relative : what’s gold for some could be mud for others. [Read more...]