{"id":229,"date":"2001-09-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/index.php\/2001\/strategies-for-flexibility\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:26:01","slug":"strategies-for-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2001\/strategies-for-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies for Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations need to protect and maximise the value of their IT assets. To protect against threats from business and technological change systems need to be flexible: able to change to support new functions, new workloads and new working environments. Flexibility does not happen by accident &#8211; it is usually the result of planning, forward thinking and adopting strategies known to enhance and encourage it.<\/p>\n<p>This paper (in Adobe Acrobat Format), originally published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbdiforum.com\" target=\"_blank\">CBDi Forum<\/a>, presents some of those strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2001 paper on how to design systems for flexibility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2001\/strategies-for-flexibility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}