Every product requires two separable kinds of knowledge, and confusing them is how companies die. Component knowledge is what it takes to produce the parts, each part being a physically distinct portion of the product that embodies a core design concept and performs a well-defined function. Architectural knowledge is knowledge about the ways in which the components are integrated and linked together into a coherent whole. Part I's test shows they are genuinely independent: ship someone every part of a car and they will not assemble a working one, because they lack the architecture; give them full schematics and step-by-step assembly instructions and they still cannot make the parts. Two bodies of knowledge, either one useless alone, held by different people and often by different firms.

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knowledge about the ways in which the components are integrated and linked together into a coherent whole.”[^303] To illustrate the difference between these two bodies of knowledge, imagine that you are trying to build a car. If I shipped you all of a car's component pieces, it is highly unlikely that you would be able

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