- Introduction
- Conventional Wisdom
- What’s Inside and What’s Outside
- Possible Benefits
- Overview of Systems Engineering Elements
- Customer-defined
- Developer-defined
- Complex Systems
- Problems
- Systems
- People
- Software
- Management
- Overview: Thinking Outside the Box
- The Inventive Mind
- Management Thinking
- Technical Thinking
- Broaden and Generalize
- Architecting
- Functional Decomposition
- Systems of Systems
- Crossover
- The Concept
- Software Applications
- Building/Managing New Systems
- Conventional Wisdom
- Large Complex Government Systems
- Technology
- Business Paradigms
- Challengeable Wisdom
- Back of the Envelope
- Business Example
- Compact Models
- Great Ideas
- Constructing the Steps
- Expanding the Dimensions
- Flatland
- Multifunctionality
- The Grand Unified Theory
- Obversity
- 36 Ways to Fail
- The Top Dozen
- Remove Constraints
- Typical Constraints
- Faster, Cheaper, Better
- Thinking with Pictures
- Visual Thinking
- Diagramming
- The Systems Approach
- Seven Elements
- Alternatives
- Group Processes
- Signs/Examples of Failure
- New Solutions
- Other Ways of Thinking
- Modern
- The Old Masters
- A “Test”
- Wrap-Up
- Hurdles to Overcome
- Course Recap
- Discussion