Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

minutes. Entire new versions of large software products can be

built daily. Even the largest systems, if appropriately struc-

tured, can be fundamentally changed in a matter of days,

weeks at most.

The use of IT to drive down the cost of reconfiguration

even affects hardware-intensive realms such as manufacturing

plants. Computer-controlled machines can be reconfigured

between jobs much more rapidly than older, mechanically-

controlled machines. Even the metal-bending world of heavy

manufacturing now sees a very significant reduction in such

costs, though artful making hasn’t yet become the predomi-

nant approach.

Reducing Exploration Costs:

Simulation, ...