Design Rules: The Power of Modularity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify key elements for defining a path to future success in modeling and simulation (MS past Department of Defense (DoD) efforts to achieve it have had distinctly mixed success despite the many technological developments that have occurred over the past 5 to 10 years.

TL;DR: It is argued that important insights can be gained by linking the notion of search in rugged performance landscapes to practitioner-oriented practices and frameworks, such as lean startup or design thinking.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that to realize this synergy, a firm needs to actively manage the interdependencies between different business lines, which, in turn, increases its coordination costs.

TL;DR: The burgeoning digital-platforms literature across multiple business disciplines has primarily characterized the platform as a market or network as discussed by the authors, and although the organizing role of platform owners is not limited to market participants, it is also the role of the platform itself.