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Book : Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management (2003)
Categories: Architecture • Complexity • General Systems • Manufacturing • Modelling • Problem-Solving • Requirements • System Dynamics • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • case study • causal loop • hitchins • lifecycle • management • metrics • n-squared • organisation • process • project management • society • soft system • ssm • system design • system dynamics • systems engineering • systems thinking • technique
Publisher: Artech House Publishing
Author(s): Hitchins, Derek K.
Published: 2003 • ISBN: 1580536190 • 489 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
Available from: Amazon (DE) • Amazon (UK) • Amazon (US)
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No matter what field you are working in or studying, Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management offers you a comprehensive understanding of systems ideas and methods to help you achieve unmatched success with your challenging projects. This unique resource helps you add a systems-scientific grounding to systems engineering enterprises, showing you how to solve intractable problems, design systems to accommodate complex environments, and manage both creative and operational systems. You learn how to conceive, design and manage a systems engineering process for optimal results.
The book is filled with examples and case studies from a wide range of areas, from integrated transport systems, security systems, and defense procurement, to missile defense architectures, famine relief, and managing markets. This innovative reference introduces a generic systems lifecycle theory that helps you understand how systems form, persist and decay, and presents a 5-layer classification for systems engineering. You discover how to use a generic reference model that allows systems of all types to be addressed within a common framework. Moreover, the book reveals how architecture is used to create system emergent properties, capabilities and behaviors.
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Book : Introduction to Systems Engineering (2000)
Categories: Business • Defence • General Systems • System Dynamics • Systems Engineering
Tags: armstrong • book • brainstorming • causal loop • development • influence diagram • lifecycle • process • requirement • sage • synthesis • system dynamics • systems engineering • wbs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Author(s): Sage, Andrew P. • Armstrong, James E.
Published: 2000 • ISBN: 0471027669 • 547 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
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Systems engineering (SE), or the engineering of large-scale systems, is key to achieving reliable, efficient, cost-effective products and services in diverse fields, including communication and network systems, software engineering, information systems, manufacturing, command and control, and defense systems acquisition and procurement.
This book offers a unique introduction to the world of systems engineering, focusing on analysis and problem-solving techniques that can be applied throughout the life cycle of product systems and service systems. While the authors provide a framework for the functional levels involved in systems engineering processes and system management, the bulk of the discussion is devoted to the practical application of formulation, analysis, and interpretation methods.
Through the use of real-world examples and useful graphs, readers will learn to:
- Choose the most appropriate methods and tools for a given project
- Apply issue formulation methods to assure that the right problem has been identified
- Work with formal analysis methods to assure that the problem is solved correctly
- Apply issue interpretation methods to insure that decisions reflect human values and technological realities, and thereby make interpretation work for them in the decision-making process
- Develop an appreciation for the engineering and troubleshooting of large systems
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Book : Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager’s Guide to Applying Systems (2002)
Categories: Business • Modelling • Systems Thinking
Tags: brealey • business • causal loop • management • modelling • sherwood • system dynamics • systems thinking • technique
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd.
Author(s): Sherwood, Dennis
Published: 2002 • ISBN: 185788311X • 235 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real world problems by providing a structured way of balancing a broad, overall view with the selection of the right level of detail, truly allowing you to
see the forest for the trees.Only by taking a broad view can we avoid the twin dangers of a silo mentality - in which a fix ‘here’ simply shifts the problem to ‘there’ - and organisational myopia - in which a fix ‘now’ gives rise to a much bigger problem to fix ‘then’.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees will give you all the tools and techniques you need, with many practical examples as diverse as managing a busy back office, negotiating an outsourcing deal and formulating business strategy.
Dennis Sherwood was for twelve years a consulting partner with Coopers & Lybrand and was subsequently an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in London, a partner in Bossard Consultants, and Vice President of SRI Consulting. Educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and California, and a Sloan Fellow, with Distinction, of the London Business School, he is now the Managing Director of Organica Consulting which specialised in building competitive advantage through innovation whose clients include Thames Water, Nestle, National Grid, Pearson TV, The Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, Wedgewood, and Yorkshire Electricity. He is a is well-known on the conference circuit and is the author of five previous books including Smart Things to Know About Innovation and Unlock Your Mind.
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Book : Systems Thinking Basics : From Concepts to Causal Loops (1997)
Categories: Systems Thinking
Tags: anderson • book • causal loop • systems thinking • technique • tool
Publisher: Pegasus Communications Inc.
Author(s): Anderson, Virginia
Published: 1997 • ISBN: 1883823129 • 144 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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Systems Thinking Basics is a self-study, skill-building resource designed to introduce you to the power of systems thinking tools. With an emphasis on behavior over time graphs and causal loop diagrams, this workbook guides you step by step through:
- Recognizing systems and understanding the importance of systems thinking
- Interpreting and creating behavior over time graphs and causal loop diagrams
- Applying and practicing systems thinking day-to-day
Each of the book’s six main sections contains a wealth of examples from the business world, as well as learning activities that reinforce concepts and provide you with the opportunity and space to practice. An array of appendices offers:
- Extra practice activities
- A summary of key points and suggested responses to the learning activities
- A table showing the “palette” of systems thinking tools available
- A glossary of systems thinking terms
- A list of additional resources
- A summary of the systems archetypes
The many diagrams within the book clarify concepts and visually reinforce key principles. Systems Thinking Basics is ideal for aspiring systems thinkers eager to try their hand at using these powerful tools.
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