Comments on: The Complexity of Scaling Up http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/ Exploring complexity & evolutionary sciences in foreign aid Thu, 23 May 2013 09:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Why I’m a Millennium Villages sceptic « Bottom Up Thinking http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1717 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:06:01 +0000 https://aidontheedge.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1717 [...] not work well a wider scales due to unanticipated problems and bottlenecks. Ben Ramalingam recently blogged on exactly some of the new challenges that occur as one scales up. This doesn’t mean that the [...]

]]> By: Bonnie Koenig http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1692 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:57:47 +0000 https://aidontheedge.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1692 Excellent post, Ben. I would underscore that we seem to do little sharing of past attempts at scale-up and as you note learning from them “how to scale up effective interventions in the future.” I recently did a search for articles on scale-up and they were hard to come by. This post moves us further in the sharing direction. Your readers might also be interested in this wiki http://globalscale.wikispaces.com/Resources where I will add your post.

]]> By: Phil Teare http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1673 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:30:39 +0000 https://aidontheedge.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1673 For my usual reduction to CS, the problem may be that to begin with, you need an emergent system, to help evolve the infrastructure efficiently, to a point where it is sustainable at a sufficiently large scale.

However, what you want to end up with is a distributed service architecture. Where disperate services are spread across a vast area, but that request are mediated by a separate layer. See the ESB towards the end of this for an analogous layer: http://russellobrien.hubpages.com/hub/Integration-Architecture-Explained

i.e. routing people to the relevant service is half the problem. And that tends to best be handled by something quite bespoke.

Not easy

]]> By: Big fish swim in bigger ponds « Bottom Up Thinking http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1671 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:55:45 +0000 https://aidontheedge.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/the-complexity-of-scaling-up/#comment-1671 [...] ever excellent Ben Ramalingam posts on the complexity challenges of scaling up aid projects. He and the paper he reports have many interesting and valid points, and yet the dry analysis [...]

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