Those intimately familiar with systems engineering recognize the value it brings to projects and organizations. The 2012 study, The Business Case for Systems Engineering, quantified the connection between the application of systems engineering best practices and project performance. Even without this study, systems engineers intuitively understand the law of conservation of …

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 …

Recently, my wife and I watched the multi-part television series on Albert Einstein, developed for the National Geographic Channel and directed by Ron Howard. Despite some of the criticism leveled at the effort, like compressing portions of the timeline and the screenplay’s inclusion of his first wife’s contribution to his …