by Philip Boxer As demand tempo exceeds integration tempo, ‘design-time’ and ‘run-time’ become entangled[1], requiring a different approach to governance that needs to be East-West (horizontally) dominant[2]. It follows that the double-V cycle[3] becomes increasingly…
Category: Asymmetric Design
Responding to asymmetric demand through a collaborative process.
In network-based architectures, the architecture has to enable the emergence of multiple forms of layering with respect to different forms of demand for collaboration, rendering it asymmetric to the architectures of demand.
by Philip Boxer
The challenge was the hole-in-the-middle. This was too expensive to satisfy on a bespoke basis, and too complex to run on a commoditised basis. The challenge was to find ways of managing the relationship with the customer differently – the enterprise had to develop an approach to managing infrastructure that could be dynamically customised from the edge of the business.
by Philip Boxer
In what ways must our understanding of socio-technical systems be extended to build on their rich legacy?
by Philip Boxer
The double challenge involves not only responding to the customer’s demand at the edge, but also creating the organisational context that will sustain that response.
by Philip Boxer
This interoperability landscape describes a layer mediating between the demands of users within their contexts-of-use and the supply of services from APIs. We are interested in using this form of analysis from the point of view of particular new forms of demand to see where there are gaps in the resultant landscape. These gaps will identify risks that will need to be mitigated if those new forms of demand are to be satisfied. Asymmetric design is our name for the process for identifying and mitigating these gaps.
by Richard Veryard
In a situation where Asymmetric Demand prevails, the business design response may be either Symmetric or Asymmetric …
Philip Boxer and I have written a brief analysis of the CSA Fiasco, which illustrates some of Philip’s ideas about complex system design. This is still in draft form, and we are keen to get…