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Thinking Out of the Box: A Systems Engineering Imperative

  • 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

 

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