Architectural strategies based on economic objectives

Via Managing the Design Factory,

Economic Objectives	Architectural approach
Minimise development expenses	Maximise reuse of existing designs Move customisation outside the system boundary Buy non-strategic subsystems from third party vendors
Minimise the price of the product	Tightly couple subsystems with the design (aka reduce modularity) Design subsystems to minimise build (and/or operations) costs Seek economies of scale for key components
Maximise product performance	Build the design around the key performance-limiting element Focus on system-level optimisation Tightly couple subsystems within the design (aka reduce modularity)