Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development Library Series)

by Derek K. Hitchins

Overview

No matter what field you are working in or studying, Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management offers you a comprehensive understanding of systems ideas and methods to help you achieve unmatched success with your challenging projects. This unique resource helps you add a systems-scientific grounding to systems engineering enterprises, showing you how to solve intractable problems, design systems to accommodate complex environments, and manage both creative and operational systems. You learn how to conceive, design and manage a systems engineering process for optimal results.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580536196
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/28/2003
Series:	Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development Library Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	490
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Derek K. Hitchins is now a part-time consultant, teacher, visiting professor and international lecturer. Formerly, he held the British Aerospace Chairs in Systems Science and in Command and Control, Cranfield University at RMCS Shrivenham, and before that the Chair in Engineering Management at City University, London, England. Professor Hitchins earned his Ph.D. in Systems Science at City University, London.

Table of Contents

Preface. Part A: Systems Philosophy, Systems Science - The Need for, and Value of, Systems. Measure for Measure. Systems Engineering Philosophy. A Theory of Complexity. Systems Lifecycle Theory. The Social Genotype. Part B: Systems Thinking - Tools and Methods for Systems Thinking. System Thinking at Work. Part C: System Engineering - System Concept and Design. Classification of Systems Engineering. From Systems thinking to Systems in Operation.