Archive for March, 2009

Building Organizational Agility into Large-Scale Software-Reliant Environments

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

by Philip Boxer
This paper was presented at the 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference in Vancouver March 23-26 with the following abstract:
The tempo at which an enterprise creates new uses for its systems is different from that of its acquisition or systems development processes. The military continues to confront the issue of how fielded systems can […]

Enterprise Architecture for Complex System-of-Systems Contexts

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

by Philip Boxer
This paper was presented in collaboration with Suzanne Garcia at the 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference in Vancouver March 23-26 with the following abstract:
An enterprise architecture is an accepted, widely used means for an organization to capture the relationship of its business operations to the systems and data that support them. Increasingly, enterprises […]

Agility and Value for Defence

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

by Philip Boxer
In February 2009, a joint article was published with Nicholas Whittall in the RUSI Journal:

The Meaning of Value-for-Money

The article argues that costing flexibility of design and valuing agility offer the grounds for new commercial transactions and an approach to the elusive notion of Value-for-Defence.

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