the long incremental steps
Create the vision. Create workspace applications. Get an architect. Sounds easy enough, but wait...where do the users come in? What about the enterprise? The new applications want to penetrate the enterprise with a thin line that's hardly there. Visual development tools are being upgraded.
Selling a product needs much strategy, or I've been told. Selling is done by so many people in an organization. The more organized the organization, the more strategy goes with selling a product. One might think more architecture is needed, but strategy is not architecture. But selling takes a vision that aligns with business needs. Business goals should be broken down to immediate and long-term. Customer relations is surely a goal that can't be ignored. There needs to be a good balance.
This is where the enterprise portal comes to mind. Portal infrastructure need to be looked at since it can be implemented to solve business problems and help productivity and ROI. The key job of the portal is to increase business.
