Hillary Silitto of Thales has written a very interesting and important paper entitled “Integrating System Science, Systems Thinking, And Systems Engineering: Understanding the Differences and Exploiting the Synergies”. (available to INCOSE members at https://www.incose.org/ipub/12/36.PDF) He has amplified a discussion which holds the promise of expanded opportunity for a number of …

The second trap has to do with what constitutes a model. As we say on page 65 of Vitech’s Primer for Systems Engineering, “There are major advantages arising from using models as the basis of systems engineering. Models thoroughly consider the entire engineering problem, use a consistent language to describe …

    The critical aim of the service-oriented architecture is to bring services to the business enterprise. In the world of enterprise architecture, the service is defined as a unit of functionality packaged for convenient and consistent use. While this definition is accurate as far as it goes, it leaves …

One of the biggest problems with process design/redesign/improvement is the need to secure adoption of the new and/or improved process. This is especially true where processes are being changed or improved. The owners of those processes are typically asked by “experts” or study groups to adopt changes to the way …