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The Event-Driven Company
ExcerptsThe event-driven state of mind is by no means an invention of
the digital age; its existence long preceded the wheel. In commerce,
the event-driven state of mind has been in evidence for thousands
of years wherever traders competed in the marketplace and practiced
the fine art of custom-tailored, knowledge-based personal service
to a clientele small enough to be managed by one brain.
Today's event-driven technical infrastructure merely enables
the event-driven state of mind to be projected on a global scale
in the automated processes of business organizations, allowing
those organizations to share critical information as quickly as
easily as if they, too, were being managed by one brain: the event-driven
information architecture.
Information systems are not an overlay to what your company is
doing. They should be integral to your strategy. In fact, it may
be very hard to implement any change in strategy without leading
that changed from the IT side.
Though we seem to be drowning information today, there will be orders of magnitude more information in play in the networked, increasing the business necessity of systems that automate as many processes as possible and filter what is worth our attention from what is routine. These systems will require human intervention only in the most exceptional situations, and they will deliver crucial, value-added information about the entire commercial environment where and when it is needed. That, in a nutshell, is the mission of business integration technology and the value of being event-driven can offer any company seeking a competitive advantage. |
