Asymmetric Design

by Philip Boxer
This paper was presented in conjunction with Suzanne Garcia, Bill Anderson and Pat Kirwan at the 11th NDIA Systems Engineering Conference in San Diego.  The abstract was as follows:
New kinds of threat and much wider varieties of demand on mission capabilities are requiring the military to achieve unprecedented levels of agility and responsiveness, […]

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
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)…