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6.5.1 Attributes of a Managerial and Organizational Infrastructure to Enable Safe Systems
Author(s) -
Jackson Scott,
Hann Stuart D.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2004.tb00574.x
Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , subject (documents) , organizational systems , critical infrastructure , business , process management , knowledge management , computer security , library science
Human‐intensive systems have become the subject of systems engineering studies in recent years. This concept can be used to define the organizational and managerial infrastructure that develops, maintains and operates complex systems subject to catastrophic failure. For a program to be effective, it must exist within this infrastructure that contains specific attributes that will enable it to meet its objectives. If it does not, even the most well planned program will experience shortfalls, and there are multiple examples of that occurring. This paper presents the attributes' observable features and shows how these attributes can be confidently applied to any organizational and managerial infrastructure. While these attributes are not a guarantee that a program will be effective, they provide the means to assure that any program will have an opportunity to perform at its best without being compromised by an inappropriate infrastructure. Case studies are cited and correlated to specific attributes, which, if applied, would have mitigated the probability of a major catastrophe.