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Forrester's Organic Business vision begins with using Web services standards to embed your enterprise into your customers' and suppliers' business processes, leading to loyal customers, efficient suppliers, and a lean enterprise. Going beyond Web services to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and a broad service-oriented IT strategy greatly expands the strategic possibilities of Organic Business, creating a long-term vision of responsive, adaptive, optimized business performance. Extending the model from partner interactions to all of your internal and external processes creates, in effect, a digital model of your business processes that IT can change incrementally, enabling IT resources to more rapidly reflect changing business conditions and processes. It's not easy — there are significant organizational, architectural, and implementation challenges — and no one has yet achieved the full vision, so pursue service-oriented IT as a broad vision that you evolve to in a stepwise fashion that matches investments with business benefits.

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