4.3.1 Meeting the Challenge of Knowledge‐Creating Systems

Many systems help us increase our knowledge of the world in one way or another. Business application systems help managers understand the marketplace and how best to address market needs. Military systems provide command and control capabilities so we can have better battlefield awareness so we can fight to win. Chemical processing facility systems help us gain awareness of what is happening all along the processing chain. If all these systems help us gain knowledge of the world, does SE have the tools to analyze the knowledge‐creation capacity of our systems? This paper will explore that question.