A new simplified framework that improves organizational performance at all levels
Learn to apply a new, simpler approach to business management that enables you to cut through the mounds of literature on traditional business management and actually get results. This new approach, based on more than forty years of the author's field experience, combines and extracts the best from two successful business management innovations:
Viable System Model (VSM): Developed by Stafford Beer, the VSM models the principles of system science and...
A new simplified framework that improves organizational performance at all levels
Learn to apply a new, simpler approach to business managem...
This textbook is the first comprehensive approach to combine, in a unified way, the three fields of Systems Engineering, Operations, and multi criteria decision-making (MCDM). All traditional application problems in System Engineering and Operations Systems are formulated and solved using unique MCDM approaches. For each problem example, a sample spreadsheet is also provided to make the use of methods easy for all students and practitioners.
This textbook is the first comprehensive approach to combine, in a unified way, the three fields of Systems Engineering, Operations, and multi criteri...
The Growing Imperative Need for Effective Information Security Governance
With monotonous regularity, headlines announce ever more spectacular failures of information security and mounting losses. The succession of corporate debacles and dramatic control failures in recent years underscores the necessity for information security to be tightly integrated into the fabric of every organization. The protection of an organization's most valuable asset information can no longer be relegated to low-level technical personnel, but must be considered an essential element of corporate governance that...
The Growing Imperative Need for Effective Information Security Governance
With monotonous regularity, headlines announce ever more spectacular fail...
Learn how ART and ADT can reduce cost, time, product recalls, and customer complaints
This book provides engineers with the techniques and tools they need to use accelerated reliability testing (ART) and accelerated durability testing (ADT) as key factors to accurately predict a product's quality, reliability, durability, and maintainability during a given time, such as service life or warranty period. It covers new ideas and offers a unique approach to accurate simulation and integration of field inputs, safety, and human factors, as well as accelerated product development, as...
Learn how ART and ADT can reduce cost, time, product recalls, and customer complaints
This book provides engineers with the techniques and t...
A hands-on approach to understanding, designing, analyzing, and evaluating complex systems
During the last few years, Simulation-Based Systems Engineering (SBSE) has become an essential tool for the design and evaluation of complex systems. This is the first book to cover the basic principles of complex systems through the use of hands-on experimentation using an icon-based simulation tool.
Utilizing the accompanying software tool ExtendSim, which works with the OpEMCSS library, readers are invited to engage in simulation-based
experiments that demonstrate the principles of...
A hands-on approach to understanding, designing, analyzing, and evaluating complex systems
During the last few years, Simulation-Based Systems Engi...
Fundamental Economic Principles, Methods, and Tools for Addressing Human Systems Integration Issues and Tradeoffs
Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a new and fundamental integrating discipline designed to help move business and engineering cultures toward more human-centered systems. Integrating consideration of human abilities, limitations, and preferences into engineering systems yields important cost and performance benefits that otherwise would not have been accomplished. In order for this new discipline to be effective, however, a cultural change--starting with organizational...
Fundamental Economic Principles, Methods, and Tools for Addressing Human Systems Integration Issues and Tradeoffs
The authors advocate attention to smart data strategy as an organizing element of enterprise performance optimization. They believe that "smart data" as a corporate priority could revolutionize government or commercial enterprise performance much like "six sigma" or "total quality" as organizing paradigms have done in the past. This revolution has not yet taken place because data historically resides in the province of the information resources organization. Solutions that render data smart are articulated in "technoid" terms versus the language of the board room. While books such as...
The authors advocate attention to smart data strategy as an organizing element of enterprise performance optimization. They believe that "smart data" ...
Systems' Verification Validation and Testing (VVT) are carried out throughout systems' lifetimes. Notably, quality-cost expended on performing VVT activities and correcting system defects consumes about half of the overall engineering cost. Verification, Validation and Testing of Engineered Systems provides a comprehensive compendium of VVT activities and corresponding VVT methods for implementation throughout the entire lifecycle of an engineered system. In addition, the book strives to alleviate the fundamental testing conundrum, namely: What should be tested? How...
Systems' Verification Validation and Testing (VVT) are carried out throughout systems' lifetimes. Notably, quality-cost expended on performing ...
The concrete tools manufacturing enterprises need to thrive in today's global environment
For a manufacturing enterprise to succeed in this current volatile economic environment, a revolution is needed in restructuring its three main components: product design, manufacturing, and business model. The Global Manufacturing Revolution is the first book to focus on these issues. Based on the author's long-standing course work at the University of Michigan, this unique volume proposes new technologies and new business strategies that can increase an enterprise's speed of...
The concrete tools manufacturing enterprises need to thrive in today's global environment
For a manufacturing enterprise to succeed in this ...
