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.
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…
Dynamic context-driven asymmetries are a very interesting concept, but the challenge of preparing for them is magnified by the difficulty of anticipating them…
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…
Necessity is the mother of invention, and value model diversity on the demand side will force the supply side to better satisfy it…
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)…
In order to know where to accommodate diversity and where to leverage commonality, you must have a way of identifying and contrasting context-specific challenges.
by Richard Veryard
In a situation where Asymmetric Demand prevails, the business design response may be either Symmetric or Asymmetric …
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…
