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4.3.2 Global Systems Engineering Competencies: A Business Advantage
Author(s) -
Arnold Eileen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2008.tb00821.x
Subject(s) - workforce , leverage (statistics) , knowledge management , business , sustainability , process management , computer science , economics , ecology , biology , economic growth , machine learning
As market boundaries change, diversified corporations can no longer focus on end product markets. A competency system, flowed‐down from enterprise and business objectives and strategy to a workforce comprised of an individual's competencies with a global Systems Engineering focus, is proposed as a business advantage. Unexpected results, capitalizing on the synergies and combinations of competencies; the “whole is more than the sum of its parts” concept illustrates a newly introduced term, Emergent Competency behavior. A multi‐dimensional Systems Engineering Competency Model example, based on individual competencies with global and layer dimensions, is provided as a way to leverage the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes of a workforce to achieve business success. Six categories of competencies are proposed to include Enterprise, Domain, Discipline, Cognitive, Environmental Sustainability, and Behavioral.