Author: Miriam Rich

Vitech: Best of 2017

Ponder these statements: Managing complexity is one of the great challenges of our time. One of the fundamental tenets of systems engineering is that optimizing the components will not optimize the system. We as a society have a bias toward practicality. The goal of language is to give voice to …

Systems engineering for a new era

This is Part VI, the concluding installment of a series of posts about the history of Vitech. Part I recounts the company’s beginnings, in 1992. Part II tells the story of an influential mentor. In Part III, Vitech helps a company weather the Y2K transition in the late 1990s. In …

On Vitech’s 25th Anniversary

As Vitech celebrates 25 years of being in business, we offer you this poem in a lighthearted vein. “What defines this thing called a system?” is a question good thinkers must ask. But luckily for all the world’s people, Vitech is up to the task. Creating something where adding all …