modularity

Organization into discrete, interchangeable units. Modular design allows organisms and organizations to evolve parts independently, repair damage locally, and recombine components in new ways.

Citations (9)

Design Rules: The Power of Modularity

Disruption, disintegration and the dissipation of differentiability

Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications

Role of linkers in communication between protein modules

Modularity, flexibility, and knowledge management in product and organization design

Metabolites: a helping hand for pathway evolution?

The role of product architecture in the manufacturing firm

Structure, function and evolution of multidomain proteins

Perspective: Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability

Companies (11)

Apple

Toyota

Unilever

Sony

Dollar Shave Club

Qualcomm

Roche Holding AG

Samsung Electronics

Harman International

Ben & Jerry's

Seventh Generation

Frameworks (7)

Platform Independence Model

Modularity Design Framework

Modularity Readiness Assessment

Boundary Definition Process

Interface Specification Template

Coordination Mechanism Selection

Design Structure Matrix

Mechanisms (1)

Evolvability