Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems New Findings and A
This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems. It explores the challenges of and approaches to complexity from a broad range of disciplines, including big data, health care, medicine, mathematics,
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ansdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems New Findings and Approaches
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems
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Franz-Josef Kahlen • Shannon Flumerfelt • Anabela Alves Editors
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems New Findings and Approaches
Editors Franz-Josef Kahlen Kahlen Global Professional Solutions Gronau Germany Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa
Shannon Flumerfelt Department of Organizational Leadership School of Education and Human Services Oakland University Rochester, MI USA
Anabela Alves Department of Production and Systems School of Engineering University of Minho Campus of Azure´m Guimar~aes Portugal
ISBN 978-3-319-38754-3 ISBN 978-3-319-38756-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-38756-7
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Foreword
A few years ago, a group of colleagues representing different parts of the aerospace industry were lamenting the current state of our development programs and the prevalent trend of rising costs and significant schedule delays across the industry. We agreed that increasing complexity was a consistent characteristic for many of our under-performing programs. Being the good engineers that we were, we first looked at the technical root causes leading to the increased complexity. We specifically looked at how we, as an industry, approached Systems Engineering thinking and accountability. We thought we would find that we were not effectively addressing the complexity of our systems or that we were unwittingly introducing complexity into our systems. What we found was it was a bit of both in addition to contributors outside of our control. To start this discussion, we decided to host a Compl
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