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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
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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 : Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management (1999)

Categories: General Systems • Project Management • Systems Engineering
Tags: book • lifecycle • management • rouse • sage • systems engineering
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Author(s): Sage, Andrew P. • Rouse, William B.
Published: 1999 • ISBN: 0471154059 • 1236 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
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Systems engineering is the management technology that supports the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of the total system development process to ensure evolution of a high-quality, trustworthy, and cost-effective system capable of meeting user needs. Among the many applications of systems engineering and management are decision support systems, command and control systems, air traffic control systems, intelligent highway vehicle systems, process control systems, and enterprise systems. The factors associated with the engineering of large-scale systems include policy making, planning, decision making, resource allocation, and action deployment.The
Handbook of Systems Engineering and Managementis a comprehensive, single-volume reference to every aspect of systems engineering and management for fielding systems of all types, especially systems that are information-, technology-, and software-intensive.This volume guides professionals through every phase of the definition, design, implementation, and management of systems of large scale and scope, from identifying user needs and determining costs to ensuring system capabilities and maintaining smooth operations. The handbook will be of long-lasting value to those concerned with the technical direction, development, and management of complex projects of large scale and scope.The first undertaking of its kind, the
Handbook of Systems Engineering and Managementpresents a single, practical source covering the theory and practice of systems engineering and management. Taking a multifaceted view of this interdisciplinary subject, the work begins with a comprehensive outline of systems engineering. The handbook then provides major sections on systems engineering methodology and processes, systems management, human factors in systems engineering,quality and standards in systems engineering, and system engineering methods.With its main focus on the organization and management of complexity, rather than direct technological concerns that affect individual subsystems, it covers a vast number of ingredients associated with the engineering of trustworthy systems, and helps those involved in these large-scale projects with:
- Systematic measurement approaches and capability-assessment models
- A knowledge base of effective systems-engineering processes and systems-management strategies
- An understanding of the complex role of advanced information technologies in enhancing systems’ productivity and quality
- Detailed discussions of the tools and methods, life cycle processes, and systems management strategies available for the support of complex high-technology systems-engineering efforts
Supplemented with nearly 400 graphs and figures that help clarify difficult concepts and organize complex material, the
Handbook of Systems Engineering and Managementis an immensely helpful resource for systems engineers, human factors engineers, and systems and software development managers in industry and government.
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Book : Management Systems: A Viable Approach (1999)

Categories: Business
Tags: book • management
Publisher: Pitman Publishing
Author(s): Yolles, Maurice
Published: 1999 • ISBN: 0273620185 • 352 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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This book creates a foundation for systems theory and method, in particular, viable systems theory, that explicitly addresses complexity.
Various approaches to management systems thinking are also presented via case studies in the final part of the book. The book shows how management systems can be used to deal satisfactorily with complex situations, and provides guidelines that enable such situations to be explained.
The book is aimed at advanced students of information systems, public administration and business management.
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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 Archetype Basics: From Story To Structure (2007)

Categories: Business • General Systems • Systems Thinking
Tags: anderson • book • kim • management • organisation • pegasus
Publisher: Pegasus Communications Inc.
Author(s): Anderson, Virginia • Kim, Daniel H.
Published: 2007 • ISBN: 1883823048 • 208 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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Does your organization make the same mistakes over and over again, without being able to get a grip on the cause? If so, a systems archetype might be at work behind the scenes! The archetypes depict the recurring “stories” that often indicate imbalance in a system.
Working with these tools can help individuals and teams surface their mental models, communicate the “story,” and engage in creative dialogue about the entire system.
Written by top authors in the field, this workbook brings you the latest thinking about the archetypes—and provides plenty of practice using them.
Familiarize yourself with eight classic archetypes, such as
Fixes That FailandLimits to Success, by working step-by-step through vivid examples, illustrations, and exercises. Additional activities, potential responses, a handy “archetypes at a glance” chart, and a glossary of terms complete your learning experience.Ideal for self-study or group practice, Systems Archetype Basics will give you the confidence and skill to start putting your knowledge to work.
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Book : Systems Engineering (1992)

Categories: Business • Systems Engineering • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • business • lifecycle • management • sage • wiley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Author(s): Sage, Andrew P.
Published: 1992 • ISBN: 0471536393 • 654 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
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'Systems Engineering' focuses on systems methodology, design, and management. The contents offer technical insight for professionals concerned with systems engineering and management and to students who need to master the steps to effective systems engineering. Throughout, the book emphasizes the process of systems engineering rather than the product of systems engineering, recognizing that proper attention to processes almost inevitably leads to higher quality products.
'Systems Engineering' addresses the fundamental considerations associated with the engineering of large scale systems. Divided into two sections, the first part deals with systems methodology, design and management including a detailed examination of operational and task level system quality assurance through configuration management, audits and reviews, standards and systems integration. The second part discusses a variety of systems design and management approaches, particularly those concerned with system effectiveness evaluation and the human role in systems.
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Book : Systems Engineering Planning and Identity (1995)

Categories: Aerospace • Defence • General Systems • Project Management • Standard • Systems Engineering
Tags: book • cdrl • development • grady • lifecycle • management • plan • process • semp • systems engineering • wbs
Publisher: CRC Press
Author(s): Grady, Jeffrey O.
Published: 1995 • ISBN: 084937832X • 400 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
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This book shows the reader how to write a system engineering management plan (SEMP) that reflects the company’s identity and is appropriate to most customers’ requirements, e.g., MIL-STD-499, ISO 9001, the U.S. Air Force Integrated Management System, and EIA STD 632.The first section of this book provides a brief introduction to the process of developing a SEMP. The remainder contains a source model of a SEMP that is generic in nature. A computer disk is included with the book to provide the SEMP in a form (Microsoft Word) that can be used for the reader’s own plan.
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Book : Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime…. (2008)

Categories: Government • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • government • management • police • public sector • public service • seddon • systems thinking • triarchy press
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Author(s): Seddon, John
Published: 2008 • ISBN: 0955008182 • 228 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there’s been massive investment in public sector ‘improvement’, ‘customer choice’ has been increased and new targets have been set and refined.
But our experience is that things haven’t changed much. This is because governments have invested in the wrong things. Belief in targets, incentives and inspection; belief in economies of scale and shared back-office services; belief in ‘deliverology… these are all wrong-headed ideas and yet they have underpinned this government’s attempts to reform the public sector.
John Seddon here dissects the changes that have been made in a range of services, including housing benefits, social care and policing. His descriptions beggar belief, though they would be funnier if it wasn’t our money that was being wasted.
In place of the current mess, he advocates a Systems Thinking approach where individuals come first, waste is reduced and responsibility replaces blame. It’s an approach that is proven, successful and relatively cheap - and one that governments around the world, and their advisers, need to adopt urgently.
John Seddon trained originally as an occupational psychologist. He is known around the world for his pioneering work on change in organisations and for translating and adapting the Toyota Production System (TPS) for use by service organisations.
John is also known for his consistently informed and controversial criticism of management fads and of much of the theory that has underpinned public sector reform. He is the leading advocate of systems thinking in business and in the public sector.
John is a widely published author and lectures at seminars conferences, universities and management schools around the world. He is Managing Director of Vanguard Ltd, a consultancy specialising in organisational change, and is a visiting professor at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, University of Cardiff.
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