Business Innovation Patterns.
Nov. 23rd, 2004 06:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupNothing profound here, but I thought I would write this down before the idea slipped away.
Once upon a time Christopher Alexander wrote "A Pattern Language" about ways of designing buildings that were pleasant to live in. While the book had many omissions and contained much that was apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it had a large friendly cover. It also got people thinking about overlapping patterns in design space. From that thinking emerged, a number of years later, the software industry's current obsession with design patterns. Now, for the most part this is a good thing™ as making people think about the abstract design elements in their code helps make the code better, although many of the books I have read on the subject also follow the tradition of many omiissions, and much that is inaccurate. Lately there has been evidence that this subfield is starting to mature and more competent books are now being written, but that's beside the point.
What I recently noticed when I sat down to write up all of the various business notions that I have had, is that they seem also to follow a set of design patterns. If I worked hard I could probably extract a set of business design patterns and write a book about it. I wonder if it would sell?
Once upon a time Christopher Alexander wrote "A Pattern Language" about ways of designing buildings that were pleasant to live in. While the book had many omissions and contained much that was apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it had a large friendly cover. It also got people thinking about overlapping patterns in design space. From that thinking emerged, a number of years later, the software industry's current obsession with design patterns. Now, for the most part this is a good thing™ as making people think about the abstract design elements in their code helps make the code better, although many of the books I have read on the subject also follow the tradition of many omiissions, and much that is inaccurate. Lately there has been evidence that this subfield is starting to mature and more competent books are now being written, but that's beside the point.
What I recently noticed when I sat down to write up all of the various business notions that I have had, is that they seem also to follow a set of design patterns. If I worked hard I could probably extract a set of business design patterns and write a book about it. I wonder if it would sell?
