Managing complexity through selective decoupling

• Main Authors: WOODARD, C. Jason, CLEMONS, Eric K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Technology evolution; product architecture; NK models; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2494; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3493/viewcontent/SelectiveDecoupling_WC_AOM2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Designers of complex systems are often confounded by the tendency for design changes to increase performance on some dimensions while decreasing it on others. While adopting a more modular architecture may temper these opposing effects, modularization can also deprive designers of opportunities to h...