http://www.asymmetricdesign.com Design and Governance for Asymmetric Demand Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:19:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Philip Boxer This article on Requisite Agility argues that the socio-technical processes required to respond to changing demand can be described (modeled) and better equipped to handle change if the organization is driven from a demand-side perspective rather than from a supply-side perspective.  The ability to do this increases the ... http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/105 by Philip Boxer SEI has published a Technical Report on its context-based approach to system-of-systems challenges. This begins to introduce the methods of projective analysis and asymmetric design into their practices. http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/104 by Philip Boxer Last week I was joined by Bernie Cohen and colleagues from the SEI to present this paper at the IEEE 2nd International Systems Conference in Montreal, Canada (April 7-10, 2008). The paper considers how the particular pragmatics of demand 'at the edge' determine the forms of interoperability required of ... http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/100 by Philip Boxer In February 2008, a joint article was published with Nicholas Whittall in the RUSI Journal: Agility and Innovation in C4ISTAR The article outlines an approach to meeting the challenges of Through Life Capability Management. http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/99 by Philip Boxer The Joint Fire Science Program enagaged the SEI to lead an independent examination of current fire management software tools and systems. The approach used by the SEI made use of visual PAN techniques. The project was outlined in a brief from the Joint Fire Science Program ... http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/103 by Bernie Cohen A reaction of one reader to my pragmatics blog was that, pragmatically speaking, it was still possible for a shared EHR to add value, but that it was certainly important to down scope the problem of sharing meaning across an enterprise, knowing full well that artificial boundaries ... http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/95 by Philip Boxer In October 2007, the SoS Navigator team went to this NDIA Conference to present two papers: Complex Systems of Systems: The Dual Challenge Achieving Agility in Cyberspace A Tutorial was also given on Modeling Sustainment and Risk Mitigation for Net-Enabled Realities. http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/98 by Philip Boxer This article on the Double Challenge was published in SEI's Eye-on-Integration in May 2007 to identify the main challenges that are being worked on within the ISIS team: the governance challenge of collaborating with an increasing number and diversity of enterprises; and the agility challenge of providing situation-appropriate responses in ... http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/97 by Bernie Cohen The field of modeling is rich in terminological confusion and misunderstanding, in which some of the terms have formal definitions that are radically different from their everyday usage. An eminent MIT Professor of Engineering used to introduce his students to the subtle concepts of precision, accuracy and significance ... http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/92 by Richard Veryard We can use the three asymmetries to appreciate different strategies for security and trust, such as deperimeterization. First we need some definitions: Boundary refers to a discontinuity in a physical system, Perimeter to a discontinuity in a social system, and Edge to a discontinuity in systems of meaning. ... http://www.asymmetricdesign.com/archives/91