Service Orientation is emerging as the fourth wave of the computing paradigm shift because it promises to enable broad-scale interoperability and unprecedented business agility in a service value-net (ecosystem). Containing IT complexity and aligning IT with business through a set of sound and robust design principles are pivotal to the transformational power of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This paper looks for insights into containing IT complexity by studying the time-tested tenets and dynamics of complex fractal-like forms that abound in Nature.
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