INCOSE IS2022 After Action Report

INCOSE IS2022 After Action Report

The INCOSE International Symposium is an annual gathering of the world's leading Systems Engineers. We gather in order to encourage each other within our profession but also to try to learn more about how to make System Engineering even better. While I was mainly there to hawk my SE Scholar business, I did get to meet some new and old friends.

What will the New Normal look like?

What will the New Normal look like?

In 1909, E.M. Forster wrote a short story in which humans live in isolation and only communicate through a machine. Could this be the ConOp of our Future? A blueprint for what the New Normal will look like? Let’s take a closer look at the world of “the Machine Stops”

Applying Systems Thinking to Industry 4.0 during SMC ‘19

 Applying Systems Thinking to Industry 4.0 during SMC ‘19

I had the honor of doing a tutorial called Applying Systems Thinking to Industry 4.0 for 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) in Bari, Italy. It turned out was better than I expected. Read more - Download the slides, handout and see some pictures.

INCOSE IS2019 After Action Report

INCOSE IS2019 After Action Report

The INCOSE International Symposium is an annual gathering of the world leading Systems Engineers. We gather in order to encourage each other within our profession but also to try to learn more about how to make System Engineering even better.  While I was mainly there to hawk my SE Scholar business, I did get to see some very interesting talks.

Who said “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts”?

Who said “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts”?

The phrase “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts” is well known and important to Systems Scientists and Systems Engineers alike. It’s like a short pithy definition of Emergence. And it is almost always automatically attributed to Aristotle. But what I want to know is this - Did he say it? Why did he say it? And in what context?