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“GE and the other two big light bulb makers, Philips and Osram Sylvania, also are looking at light emitting diodes, or LEDS as new sources of residential lighting. ‘We’ll fill in any gaps with other technologies’ says Earl Jones, says senior counsel for GE’s consumer-and-industrial unit.”
I read this and thought what great example of User-centric EA at work:
- The baseline architecture is the incandescent bulb.
- The user requirement is for more energy efficient and lower polluting electric lighting.
- The target architecture is to go to more-efficient incandescent or fluorescent bulbs.
- The transition plan is to phase in to phase in the new and phase out the old over the next seven years.
- Our partners and stakeholders are working together to make it happen.
- Future needs are being addressed through the development and evaluation of new technologies beyond the said target (i.e. EA is a cycle of baseline, target, and transition which is ongoing).
Now that’s the way to do User-centric EA!