Fast Company: How to SMASH Your Strategy
Fast Company: How to SMASH Your StrategyIBM is breaking down strategy and implementation into smaller pieces, letting each component know the goals, monitor its own performance, and do some problem solving. At IBM, this merger of strategy and implementation became known as "SMASH": simple, many, self-healing. The most effective computers would be made of many small, interchangeable components with the ability to monitor their own performance and solve problems as they arise rather than wait for instructions from the central processor: headquarters. Biology was IBM's inspiration. A hangnail doesn't prevent you from typing; the flu doesn't prevent you from walking. Similarly, a small software or hardware problem shouldn't bring computing to a halt.
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