by Philip Boxer
In the previous blog on the three agilities, a list of benefits identified by a Gartner report on agility (“The Age of Agility”, 2002) was organised into three groups corresponding to three types of agility. Why? And what does this tell us about what is required to deliver type III agility?
by Philip Boxer
This post introduces three forms of agility. Looked at in terms of competitive advantage, Agility I and II can contribute to greatly improved operational efficiencies and effectiveness in relation to defined forms of demand.
But it is Type III agility that is needed to cope with turbulent or dynamic markets in which the supplier faces significant variety in the forms of demand it is encountering.
by Richard Veryard
This post provides a brief explanation of the three asymmetries, extracted from our Microsoft Architecture Journal article.
by Philip Boxer
With the first two asymmetries, what is particular about the customer’s relation to his or her context-of-use can be aggregated out, so that the ‘I’ can be asserted unilaterally. But with the third asymmetry, it cannot, so that the ‘I’ has to be established collaboratively…
by Richard Veryard
Power to the edge is about changing the way individuals, organizations, and systems relate to one another and work.
- empowerment of individuals at the edge of an organization
- adoption of an edge organization, with greatly enhanced peer-to-peer interactions.
- moving senior personnel into roles that place them at the edge
by Richard Veryard
What we are particularly keen on is finding ways in which some added value can be released for a business by tackling some aspects of the third asymmetry incrementally…
by Charlie Alfred by Charlie Alfred Philip, To answer the question in your last blog on distinguishing the 3 asymmetries, the first test to see how clearly you are describing the issues would be for me…
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 Philip Boxer
We have wanted to see to what extent the demand-side value drivers (idiosyncratic ways in which users define their needs) diverge from supply-side value drivers (limitations in the way technology can be used)…