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Insight Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12499

Troy Peterson, Bill Schindel

{"title":"Explicating System Value through First Principles: Re-Uniting Decision Analysis with Systems Engineering","authors":"Troy Peterson, Bill Schindel","doi":"10.1002/inst.12499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12499","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>System complexity continues to grow, creating many new challenges for engineers and decision makers. To maximize value delivery, “both” systems engineering and decision analysis are essential. The systems engineering profession has had a significant focus on improving systems engineering processes. While process plays an important role, the focus on process was often at the expense of foundational engineering axioms and their contribution to system value. As a consequence, systems engineers were viewed as process developers and managers versus technical leaders with a deep understanding of how system interactions are linked to stakeholder value. With the recent shift toward model-based systems engineering (MBSE), systems engineering is “getting back to basics,” focusing on value delivery via first principles, using established laws of engineering and science. This paper describes how pattern-based systems engineering (PBSE), as outlined within INCOSE's model-based systems engineering (MBSE) initiative, explicates system value through modeling of first principles, re-uniting systems engineering and decision analysis capabilities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142041685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Maps or Itineraries? A Systems Engineering Insight from Ancient Navigators 地图还是路线？古代航海家对系统工程的启示

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12497

William D. Schindel

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Building a Technical Leadership Model 建立技术领导模式

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12488

Patrick Godfrey

{"title":"Building a Technical Leadership Model","authors":"Patrick Godfrey","doi":"10.1002/inst.12488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12488","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>INCOSE's Vision 2025 identifies the development of systems thinking and technical leadership as one of seven key areas of systems engineering ‘competency’ required for delivery. Vision 2025 states: “Education and training of systems engineers and the infusion of systems thinking across a broad range of the engineering and management workforce will meet the demands for a growing number of systems engineers with the necessary technical and leadership competencies.” “The roles and competencies of the systems engineer will broaden to address the increasing complexity and diversity of future systems.” “The technical leadership role of the systems engineer on a project will be well established as critical to the success of a project.” These requirements imply the need to rapidly expand the art and science of systems technical leadership. In response to this need, INCOSE established an institute for technical leadership. This paper describes the Institute and the work that the first cohort (“Cohort of 2017”) has accomplished on developing a technical leadership model for systems engineers. It is envisaged that this first technical leadership model for systems engineers will be further developed and matured by the following cohorts of the INCOSE's Technical Leadership Institute.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Collaborative Systems Thinking Culture: A Path to Success for Complex Projects 协作系统思维文化：复杂项目的成功之路

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12491

Mickael Bouyaud, Natalie Davila-Rendon, Alex Deng, Jean Duprez, Anabel Fraga, Leema John, Ryan Noguchi, Erika Palmer, Jay Patel, Maria Romero, Raymond Wolfgang, Michael Wozniak

{"title":"Collaborative Systems Thinking Culture: A Path to Success for Complex Projects","authors":"Mickael Bouyaud, Natalie Davila-Rendon, Alex Deng, Jean Duprez, Anabel Fraga, Leema John, Ryan Noguchi, Erika Palmer, Jay Patel, Maria Romero, Raymond Wolfgang, Michael Wozniak","doi":"10.1002/inst.12491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12491","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The world is filled with hard and complex problems, oftentimes requiring involved solutions. In large organizations attempting to solve these types of problems, a mindset shift and key candidate methodologies centered on collaborative systems thinking culture (CSTC) can assist significantly. The paper explores the state of the practice, change involved with implementing systems thinking, impacts of a collaborative approach within an organization, as well as the seven phases that a reader can introduce into their organization to realize some of the benefits. The same approach was used to create this paper under collective authorship from cohort 6 of the INCOSE Technical Leadership Institute (TLI); an international group of individuals collaborating exclusively through virtual platforms. From writing papers to executing large technical programs, the CSTC approach will prepare technical teams for tackling challenging problems in an inclusive way with the intent to finish projects on time while also cultivating healthy systems engineering habits and practices. This lessens the reliance on corporate engineering procedures to drive collaborative behavior by fiat. Finally, blending CSTC into the fabric and culture of an organization is emphasized as being needed for the full benefit. That benefit includes saving programs by moving to a CSTC.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Technical Leadership of Virtual and Remotely Distributed Teams 虚拟和远程分布团队的技术领导力

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12490

Francesco Dazzi, Elena Gallego, W. Patrick Keen, Mark McKelvin, Sean McCoy, Allison Weigel, Lisa Ziliox

{"title":"Technical Leadership of Virtual and Remotely Distributed Teams","authors":"Francesco Dazzi, Elena Gallego, W. Patrick Keen, Mark McKelvin, Sean McCoy, Allison Weigel, Lisa Ziliox","doi":"10.1002/inst.12490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12490","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The world is increasingly virtual and complex, with many relationships and teams at a global scale. The situation will not be changing any time soon. Sometimes, it is only possible to interact at a distance, of not only time zones and space, but also sometimes interpersonal distance, where names and voices make up another person. Regardless, technical teams will need good leadership to address complex situations in these virtual and remotely distributed (VaRD) environments. So, in a VaRD environment, do leadership practices and skills have to change? Do the tools, techniques, and technology make current practices for leadership in general, and the application of those practices obsolete? Maybe not.</p>\u0000 <p>This paper seeks to examine the nature of what is really changing when leading in a VaRD environment through the lens of engineers leading teams in global and complex technical challenges. Those perspectives are analyzed to determine the factors that go into a VaRD environment. In addition, this paper analyzes how interactions between teams compare to an in-person environment, how leadership practices are applied in this environment, and how technical leadership is tailored for these new environments.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Tinkerer's Mindset: Lessons from the Technical Leadership Institute's Cohort 8 on Safe-to-Fail Probing as a Tool for Informing Judgement 工匠心态：技术领导力学院第 8 期学员将 "安全无故障 "探查作为判断工具的经验教训

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12494

Adam D. Williams, Leandro V. Aveiro, Rachel A. McGrath, Carlo Leandri, Guilluame Terpant, Dimitri Masson, Adrian Unger

{"title":"A Tinkerer's Mindset: Lessons from the Technical Leadership Institute's Cohort 8 on Safe-to-Fail Probing as a Tool for Informing Judgement","authors":"Adam D. Williams, Leandro V. Aveiro, Rachel A. McGrath, Carlo Leandri, Guilluame Terpant, Dimitri Masson, Adrian Unger","doi":"10.1002/inst.12494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12494","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Tinkering — or making small changes to experiment toward an improvement in performance — is seemingly a natural characteristic of many systems engineers. As such, systems engineers are uniquely qualified to develop complex solutions necessary to overcome lack of clarity, achieve order, and avoid failure. Further, there is a much broader conversation surrounding the possibility of “failure” being beneficial in systems engineering projects. In response to the needing to inform judgment in situations shrouded in uncertainty, members of INCOSE's Technical Leadership Institute (TLI) cohort 8 examined the role of safe-to-fail probes play in informing judgement for systems engineers. Within the constraints of the TLI's major project, virtual workshops and qualitative interviews were two data collection mechanisms established to empirically investigate the role(s) of safe-to-fail probing in systems engineering. Overall, the data sets offered conclusions describing the potential role(s) of safe-to-fail probes for systems engineers working in uncertain environments. Resulting from this (limited) empirical exploration are additional insights and implications for how systems engineers may invoke safe-to-fail probes to improve decision-making in uncertain and challenging situations. Such a tinkerer's mindset can help systems engineers transition from the constraints of “intolerable failure” to the opportunities related to probing-sensing-responding to “responsible failures.”</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Experiments in Leading through Influence: Reflections from a Group of Emerging Technical Leaders 通过影响力进行领导的实验：一群新兴技术领导者的思考

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12489

Chris A. Browne, Jeffrey Brown, John Cadigan, Heidi Davidz, David Fadeley, Heather Feli, Karl C. Geist, Myra Parsons Gross, Maz Kusunoki, Clement Lee, Al Meyer, Louis-Emmanuel Romana, Brad Spencer, Lauren Stolzar, Luca Stringhetti, Ming Wah Tham

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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 主编的话

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12487

William Miller

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A Systems View of Career Development for Systems Engineering Leadership 系统工程领导职业发展的系统观点

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12493

Stueti Gupta, Grace Kennedy, Jonathan Keim, Brandi Opland, Yoeri Sigterman, Brandi Wingate

{"title":"A Systems View of Career Development for Systems Engineering Leadership","authors":"Stueti Gupta, Grace Kennedy, Jonathan Keim, Brandi Opland, Yoeri Sigterman, Brandi Wingate","doi":"10.1002/inst.12493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12493","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Systems engineering leaders' career development journeys are primarily driven by their experiences that shape their capability, qualities, and perspective; however, the pathways that individuals take are not only broad and varied, but also equally affected by personal life decisions and external factors. This paper describes a two-fold study that aimed to: a) provide insight into commonalities in the career journeys of systems engineering leaders, and b) ascertain how key areas affect career development. Five key areas were explored: education, technical experience, soft skills experience, job satisfaction, and work-life balance. A mixed and multi-method approach was taken, gathering data from sixty-one participants through interviews, surveys, and facilitated workshop. The study found that although there was no ‘blueprint’ that yields successful systems engineering leadership, there were themes/trends that were common. An influence model was developed to highlight these trends in the form of the key areas, factors affecting them, and the interrelationships between them.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Future Trends Influencing Technical Leaders and Technical Leadership 影响技术领导者和技术领导力的未来趋势

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Insight Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12492

Timothy D. West, Midori Daida, Fabio Silva, Paul Jean, Nazanin Sharifi

{"title":"Future Trends Influencing Technical Leaders and Technical Leadership","authors":"Timothy D. West, Midori Daida, Fabio Silva, Paul Jean, Nazanin Sharifi","doi":"10.1002/inst.12492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12492","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper summarizes the authors' reflections on global trends and key factors influencing systems engineering in the post-COVID era. The discussion builds upon INCOSE's <i>Systems Engineering Vision 2035,</i> as well as multiple virtual workshops and peer discussions conducted by the authors as part of their experience in INCOSE's Technical Leadership Institute (TLI). The authors focus on three key factors affecting technical leaders and their technical leadership role: 1) the heightened societal awareness of environmental concerns along with the associated demand for more environmentally friendly products, 2) the increasingly interconnected, multicultural, multigenerational work environment, and 3) the increasing capability of advanced digital tools, techniques, and processes. The authors' analysis acknowledges the need for technical leaders to think green, build an inclusive work environment, welcome differing viewpoints, avoid stereotyping, and expand their virtual tradecraft. Ultimately technology changes how technical leaders do their jobs, but not the job itself. Leaders must still set the vision and direction of the organization, communicate that vision to their stakeholders, and provide the resources and support that the team needs to achieve the vision. Emerging technologies offer leaders new and innovative means to do this in a more inviting and inclusive manner.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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