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The Capability to Engineer Systems is a System Itself!
Author(s) -
Beasley Richard,
Pickard Andrew C.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2020.00778.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , identification (biology) , enterprise systems engineering , work (physics) , systems engineering , engineering management , computer science , system of systems engineering , systems thinking , product (mathematics) , enterprise system , engineering , process management , knowledge management , systems design , enterprise architecture , mechanical engineering , art , paleontology , botany , geometry , mathematics , architecture , visual arts , biology , artificial intelligence
Systems Thinking can be applied to anything. This paper explores an important application of Systems Thinking ‐ to identify the capability needed by an organization to engineer products and services and so produce value for its customers and for the enterprise. The work draws upon work in the authors’ company to develop and deliver the engineering capability necessary for the business context. It draws upon the ideas of capability, but adapts them to the idea of the effect of the capability being used to produce systems. The issue is the understanding of the capability needed to engineer capability as a system, and how that understanding can be used to both ensure capability is complete and can be prioritized. Recent experience in identification and prioritization of capability needs to engineer a product (which includes but is not limited to Systems Engineering) in the authors’ organization is explored in this paper.