According to Gartner, companies should adopt the Pace-Layered Application Strategy to build an application portfolio that supports new business ideas and the inevitable business changes.<p>The Pace-Layered Application Strategy Model from Gartner distinguishes three layers, which are helping organizations improve their applications by categorizing, selecting, managing and educating themselves on those applications. As a result, organizations are finding that it is more efficient, faster and more economical to change, differentiate and innovate, as well as realize returns on their investments.<p>Having been in several styles of organisations, I'm finding it more than often that organisations (both startups and enterprise), who do not have an understanding and thus a view to implement a pace layered approach find it very difficult to scale efficiently (tech, people, process, market).<p>Has anyone seen this approach and implemented it successfully to obtain the speed of innovation and market growth it promises?