There's a crisis, you say? We are witnessing crises taking hold in many verticals including housing, financial services, manufacturing and others. There's the housing crisis. The bond crisis. The gas crisis. And these macro-crises are event beginning to put pressure on IT, where we're seeing something of a mini-crisis of confidence with IT pros pondering what might happen to IT projects like SOA.

Why is crisis good? Because it’s in the proverbial pressure-cooker that real innovation occurs. Darwin wrote it. Kanye West sang it. Most recently, Ron Tolido at Capgemini blogged it in “Crisis! Hurray, Crisis!”. Ron makes a very defensible case that companies that face crises are more apt to look for innovative solutions to truly help them leapfrog the status quo and solve longstanding problems that had been previously ignored or solved by long-term, big-ticket investments.