by Philip Boxer To take advantage of the effects of digitalization, an enterprise needs to move from a two-dimensional to a four-dimensional approach to governance – from a two-dimensional ‘as above, so below’ approach to…
by Philip Boxer How does an enterprise create and capture value when the demand tempo, the tempo at which the experiences of its clients need to change, is faster than the tempo at which it…
by Philip Boxer Why three kinds of symmetry-breaking? Because each symmetry is based on a different kind of basis for agreement: ‘how to do things’, ‘who to be’ and ‘what to want’. The need for…
by Philip Boxer How does an enterprise create and capture value when the demand tempo – the tempo at which its client’s experience needs to change – is faster than the tempo at which the…
by Philip Boxer Ecosystems contain large numbers of operationally and managerially independent organizations interacting with each other in supplying and purchasing roles. These ecosystems present challenges summarized as follows: These challenges limit the kind of…
by Philip Boxer Architectural evaluation usually focuses on the supplier’s domain from which a product or service is to be provided in response to some customer’s direct demand. The supplier approaches architecture from the starting…
by Philip Boxer A metaphor used frequently for an organizational entity is as an organism. A parallel metaphor is to think of an industry as an ecosystem, for example a digital ecosystem or a business…
by Philip Boxer Digitalization is changing the balance-of-power between the supply-side and the demand-side of the economy, moving organizations towards having to deal with the multi-sided nature of clients’ demands.[1] Capturing value in this competitive…
by Philip Boxer Defunding the police is about “reallocating funds, shifting responsibility away from roles that police have absorbed over time, and establishing guidelines on what society wants and needs from police, including how the…
by Philip Boxer A Virtual Open Source Event (VOSE) aims to hold both sides of the dilemma identified in the previous blog asking what we can learn from going virtual. In the design below, the…