by Philip Boxer The UK Government wants practice-based commissioning in order to sustain an effective focus on the increasingly chronic conditions of an aging population – in a way that can hold clinicians accountable (see…
by Philip Boxer The UK Government is proposing to remove the superstructure of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and delegate authority to the General Practitioners (GPs) at the edges of the…
by Philip Boxer Delivering East-West dominance involves finding the ‘edge’. But how is a strategy-at-the-edge to be delivered? How are services at the edge to be supported if they must be responsive to the customer’s…
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[1] An ecosystem is a community of managerially and operationally independent organizations interacting with each other and with their environment. Software-intensive ecosystems—ecosystems in which the behaviors of the participating organizations are themselves dependent…
by Philip Boxer Software-intensive ecosystems—systems with large numbers of independent software-intensive and human agents and adaptive behavior—are an increasingly important social, financial, and political force in the world. These systems are different from traditional “closed-world”…
by Philip BoxerThis was a presentation and a paper given at a 2008 ISPSO Annual Meeting in Philadelphia An enterprise is made up of a number of systems of practice within which its work is…
by Philip Boxer How are we to know what constitutes an ‘unintentional’ error? I want to be able to identify ‘unintentional’ errors as errors of intent in order to be able to ask why a…
by Philip Boxer Lawrence and Lorsch (1969) originated the framework of differentiation and integration for describing the agency of an enterprise. Their argument was that there had to be congruence between the forms of differentiation…
by Philip Boxer How are we to approach the relationship to the situation intended by reflective observation in triple loop learning? How do we ‘read between the lines’?[1] This involves looking for the gaps between…