Assessing the Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST) and Other Competencies of Systems Engineers

Frank, Moti; Kasser, Joseph Eli

doi:10.5772/32864

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“…As such, models are tools for practitioners striving for excellence, groups interested in promoting collective expertise, and for scholars working to build developmental theories [19,20]. However, when applied to systems thinking, an immediate problem presents itself: what is systems thinking actually?…”

Section: Maturity Models: Fundamentalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Maturity models also claim to be prognostic, taking the idea of developmental predictability to mean that likelihood of success can be reliably increased by identifying areas of improvement that will progress one toward excellence. They do this by identifying areas of consensually defined weakness (or "fragility" [20]) that hinder optimal functioning [52]. As such, maturity models could facilitate planning, guidance, and control over future systems thinking performance by outlining what sense-making approaches in systems thinkers should be reinforced and prescribing the sense-making approaches of more mature stages as areas for prioritized development.…”

Section: Maturity Models: Fundamentalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Maturity Models for Systems Thinking

Buckle

2018

Systems

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Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the complexity of goods, products, and services that society has come to demand. This has necessitated a corresponding growth in the requirements demanded of organizational systems and the people who work in them. The competence a person requires to be effective in working in such systems has become an area of increased interest to scholars and practitioners in many disciplines. How can we assess the degree to which a person is executing the competencies required to do good systems work? Several industries now utilize maturity models in the attempt to evaluate and cultivate people's ability to effectively execute complex tasks. This paper will examine current thought regarding the value and pitfalls of maturity models. It will identify principles and exemplars that could guide the development of a Maturity Model of Systems Thinking Competence (MMSTC) for the varied roles people inhabit in systems contexts.

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Section: Maturity Models: Fundamentalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Maturity Models: Fundamentalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maturity Models for Systems Thinking

Buckle

2018

Systems

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“…Frank has conducted a series of research into systems thinking and what distinguishes someone with a capacity for systems thinking from another person [18,21]. He states a system thinker is able to:…”

Section: Systems Thinkingmentioning

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“…As systems are composed of many parts, and span several disciplines, it is important to see the whole. Senge [17,18] calls Systems Thinking the discipline for seeing the whole.…”

Section: Systems Thinkingmentioning

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Thinking Tracks for Multidisciplinary System Design

Bonnema

Broenink

2016

Systems

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Systems engineering is, for a large part, a process description of how to bring new systems to existence. It is valuable as it directs the development effort. Tools exist that can be used in this process. System analysis investigates existing and/or desired situations. However, how to create a system that instantiates the desired situation depends significantly on human creativity and insight; the required human trait here is commonly called systems thinking. In literature, this trait is regularly used, but information on how to do systems thinking is scarce. Therefore, we have introduced earlier twelve thinking tracks that are concrete and help system designers to make an optimal fit between the system under design, the identified issue, the user, the environment and the rest of the world. The paper provides the scientific rationale for the thinking tracks based on literature. Secondly, the paper presents three cases of application, leading to the conclusion that the tracks are usable and effective.

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“…Yet, there are shared competences between designers and systems engineers. When we look at for instance (Frank 2006, Frank andKasser 2012) we see that a system thinker should be able to:…”

Section: Systems Design and Engineering In The Ide Curriculummentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging Architects in Education: the Smart Environments Integration Project

Bonnema¹

2017

INCOSE International Symp

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Abstract.Educating systems engineers is a challenge. Most attention in literature is on educating systems engineers on the job; after completion of an educational program at university. Architecting is even more difficult because it encompasses dealing with uncertainty, answering a very open problem and integrating disciplines. While on the job training remains important in developing systems engineers and architects, we present in this paper an effort to start this training already in university. We present systems design and engineering as embedded in a university program. The design of, and experiences with, an individual student project aimed at practicing systems architecting is treated. This involves the set-up of the project, students' results and their experiences.

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Assessing the Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST) and Other Competencies of Systems Engineers

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Maturity Models for Systems Thinking

Maturity Models for Systems Thinking

Thinking Tracks for Multidisciplinary System Design

Challenging Architects in Education: the Smart Environments Integration Project

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