The power of modularity volume 1

1. Introduction: Artifacts, Designs, and the Structure of Industries

Part I: Structures, Context, and Operators
2. The Microstructure of Designs
3. What Is Modularity?
4. The Economic System Surrounding Artifacts and Designs
5. The Modular Operators

Part II: The Creation of Modularity in Computer Designs
6. The Origins of Modularity in Early Computer Designs
7. Creating System/360, the First Modular Computer Family
8. Enterprise Design: A Task Structure plus a Contract Structure

Part III: Design Evolution via Modular Operators
9. Design Options and Design Evolution
10. The Value of Modularity—Splitting and Substitution
11. All Modules Are Not Created Equal
12. The Value of Augmenting and Excluding
13. The Value of Inverting and Porting

Part IV: Modular Clusters
14. The Emergence of Modular Clusters
15. Competition among Hidden Modules and Industry Evolution

Afterword