Transparent IT: Building Blocks for an Agile Enterprise focuses on how the adoption of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the basis for an organization’s information technology strategy will enable it to achieve sustained growth and adapt to a changing economic and competitive environment. The steps and techniques, both technical and organizational, that must be undertaken to adopt an SOA and facilitate the agile enterprise are covered in detail. Transparent IT enables businesses to see the benefits that SOA can bring and describes a methodical approach to tying IT projects to business goals. Audiences for the book include executives and middle managers who want to know how their IT investments can be used to better support the execution of business processes.