by Philip Boxer PhD Why the interest in stratification? A colleague, Simon Western, referred me recently to Actor-Network Theory and the work of Bruno Latour in the context of a conversation about the behaviour of…
Category: 3 Asymmetries
The different ways of managing the supply-demand relationship.
by Richard Veryard We can use the three asymmetries to appreciate different strategies for security and trust, such as deperimeterization. First we need some definitions: Boundary refers to a discontinuity in a physical system, Perimeter…
by Philip Boxer
Different kinds of service are described, depending on the way in which a customer chooses to internalise or externalise its learning as it responds to its own value deficit.
by Philip Boxer
As we develop our understanding of the three asymmetries, it is helpful to associate them with three corresponding forms of economy that their management generates.
by Richard Veryard
This post provides a brief explanation of the three asymmetries, extracted from our Microsoft Architecture Journal article.
by Philip Boxer
In asking whether it is useful “to look at the demand-side variation independently of the supply-side”, I was asking under what circumstances the demand-side logics governing use could be considered independently of supply-side logics…
by Charlie Alfred Philip, Thank you very much for your comments on separating the supply-side from the demand-side. I agree with the points you raised, and have a few observations to share: 1. You observed…
by Charlie Alfred by Charlie Alfred I am the author of an article on Value-Driven Architecture that was published in the same issue of Microsoft Architecture Journal as the one that you wrote on SOA Governance….
by Richard Veryard
In this blog, we want to discuss ways in which complex sets of services can be designed to deliver value, in a highly complex and variable world…