The following five workbooks provide the means of developing the value propositions appropriate to asymmetric forms of demand, defining the business models needed for their implementation, and evaluating the demand-side risks that arise as a consequence.

Workbook 1:Leveraging existing relationships.  
How can the supplier have a greater impact on a client’s existing ways of creating value? How does a client’s value stairs organise its relationships with its suppliers?  The outputs are the value propositions for adding value to the client’s business, their value to the supplying business, and the relationship development that these opportunities require. 
Action: develop new value propositions.

Workbook 2: Targeting new forms of demand.  
In what new ways can demand be organised that will disrupt existing market organisation?  What can the impact of this value ladder be on clients’ businesses, and how are the resulting opportunities to be targeted competitively?  The outputs are value propositions with quantified growth and revenue characteristics, defined competitively within the context of a value ladder.
Action: develop new value propositions.

Workbook 3: micro-Segmentation.  
What are the different ways in which the value proposition must target the asymmetric demand competitively, what are the targeting criteria for the resulting micro-segments, and how do they relate to existing industry segments? The outputs are the distinct forms of communication needed to target the micro-segments, and the targeting characteristics and sales potential of the micro-Segments.
Action: target new client relationships.

Workbook 4: Evaluating capabilities.  
A value proposition is a promise to deliver value against the client’s selection criteria. How is this value profile defined, and what are the critical capabilities and competencies needed to deliver it?  The outputs are the performance, capability and competency gaps that must be closed in order to deliver the value profile, and the ROI that arises through closing those gaps
Action: create the performance accountabilities needed to deliver the value.

Workbook 5: Defining the business model.  
The business model needed to compose the capabilities that support value propositions creates stratified value.  What component products, services and capabilities need to be aligned across these strata, and how? The outputs are the attractiveness of the downstream opportunity being targeted, the amounts of demand and value being captured within the different strata, and the business inputs that need benchmarking. 
Action: set up the business model. 

Delivering agility from the supporting infrastructures
 

The three types of demand-side risk arise from flaws in the way value propositions target asymmetric demand and bring supporting infrastructures to bear on that demand:

1. Interoperability risk that a component service will not work as specified becomes an error of execution the failure of a planned action to be completed as specified.

2. Orchestration risk that the component services will not work together as a whole as expected becomes an error of planning - the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.

3. Composition risk that the proposition will not produce the effects expected becomes an error of intention - the supplier adopting an aim that is unwanted by the user.

If demand is symmetric, then the context-of-use can be ignored, and these risks can be externalised on the customer. But if the demand is asymmetric, then composition has to be dynamic and collaborative, and 6 strata can always be distinguished in how the underlying component technologies are deployed in relation to the context-of-use:

In order to create agility, the granularity of each layer needs to be defined in such a way that the strata can be composed as a whole to support the different forms of asymmetric demand - by ‘granularity’ is meant the functional differentiation available within any given layer. Thus supply-side dominance will seek to treat a system of systems as a more complex form of level 3 system, uncoupling supply-side from demand-side complexity. In contrast, demand-side dominance will require greater supply-side granularity, and a different demand-side commercial basis for providing agility.
The different types of risk arise when gaps appear within and between the different strata – a ‘gap’ being a structural impediment to composition. ‘Split-screen analysis’ analyses the supply-side organisation of complexity, relating the supporting infrastructures to the variety of business models defined.  The particular granularity of the strata can then be derived and analysed for gaps and misalignment.
 

Split Screen Analysis:
Four types of model are created defining how the demand-side business models emerging from the workbook processes are supported by supply-side business infrastructures. These are 
(i)  the supporting process logics, their outputs and enabling infrastructures, 
(ii) the formal organisation governing the infrastructures;
(iii) the available data views of the events and their outputs; and (iv) the synchronising processes of communication and integration. The gaps and misalignments in the way all these models fit together in relation to demand then define where there is a lack of agility. 
Action: manage the agility and granularity of the supporting business infrastructures to mitigate the risks.