Health care: a case of hypercomplexity?

JH Klein, T Young - Health Systems, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This position paper argues that the lack of take-up of management science (MS) modelling
in health care is a particularly severe example of a more general problem for MS, articulated …

Scenario-based design and evaluation for capability

EN Urwin, CC Venters, DJ Russell, L Liu… - … on System of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scenarios are frequently used within techniques for planning and designing systems. They
are an especially helpful means of visualizing and understanding the incorporation of new …

A case for dynamic risk assessment in NEC systems of systems

JM Aitken, R Alexander, T Kelly - 2010 5th International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The level of complexity in Systems of Systems is increasing as more complex functionality
emerges from the interaction of individual components. As networks become more complex …

Systems practice in engineering: reflections on teaching research methods and contribution to methodological development

M Yearworth, G Edwards… - … Beach, CA, USA, 2011 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
This paper reviews the development of research methods teaching on the Engineering
Doctorate (EngD) in Systems programme at the University of Bristol. The programme is …

Through-life NEC scenario development

EN Urwin, DJ Gunton, SR Atkinson… - IEEE Systems …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scenarios are an important planning tool used by individuals, businesses and governments
(especially in the military domain), but many of the currently used approaches focus solely …

Demonstrating through-life and NEC requirements for defence systems

M Henshaw, EN Urwin - 2009 - repository.lboro.ac.uk
There are two major transformations currently occurring that significantly impact acquisition
and management of military systems. Network Enabled Capability (NEC) demands careful …

[PDF][PDF] Research Issues Raised by the Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge

R Adcock, A Squires, D Olwell… - Proceedings from the …, 2011 - researchgate.net
As the world has evolved over the past half a century, so too has the discipline of Systems
Engineering (SE). From one humble beginning at the Bell Telephone Laboratories as the …

[PDF][PDF] Managing knowledge for through life capability

SA Pilfold - 2016 - core.ac.uk
In 2005 the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) published a White Paper in which it detailed its
Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS)(UK MoD, 2005). The strategy involved a rapid …

[PDF][PDF] Systems thinking research-principles and methodologies to grapple with complex real world problems

A Terry, M Yearworth, P Godfrey, G Edwards - researchgate.net
The! Systems! Centre! now! has! 4! cohorts! of! Research! Engineers! comprising! a! total! of!
50! research! projects! with! 30! companies! covering! a! wide! range! of! topics! including …

[CYTOWANIE][C] Observations from the industry-as-laboratory research project Darwin

P van de Laar - Proceedings of 8th conference on systems engineering …, 2010