The system view is critical to understanding and managing any system. While this seems obvious to the point of triviality, it carries some subtleties for leaders that are not so obvious. Subtleties that are important to the effective management of systems. As a beginning point, it is appropriate to lift …

Every year at Christmas I am reminded of the systemic nature of music. Music is one of my favorite parts of Christmas. I sing bass in several different choirs during the Christmas season and every year I get to sing the same parts in the basic repertoire of traditional Christmas …

There is much research leading to many possible techniques for improving the processes by which we make complex decisions. One of the biggest challenges facing systems engineers is that of making choices from among a number of alternatives based upon multiple criteria. Often such decisions need to involve groups. Sometimes …

One of the fundamental concepts of systems engineering is that in any systems design process there are always three systems to be considered. The first is the obvious system that systems engineers call the system of interest. This is the system under design or transformation – the subject of the …