Title: Agility and Innovation in C4ISTAR Authors: Dr Nicholas Whittall & Philip Boxer Category: Published Where published: RUSI Defence Systems The most agile organisation meets the demands of its operational context at lowest cost; it…
by Bernie Cohen A reaction of one reader to my pragmatics blog was that, pragmatically speaking, it was still possible for a shared EHR to add value, but that it was certainly important to down…
Title: Complex Systems of Systems: The Double Challenge Authors: Boxer, P. Brownsword, L. & Morris, E. Where published: 10th NDIA Systems Engineering Conference, San Diego Many approaches to engineering complex systems of systems address the…
by Philip Boxer In October 2007, the SoS Navigator team went to this NDIA Conference to present two papers: Complex Systems of Systems: The Dual Challenge Achieving Agility in Cyberspace A Tutorial was also given…
Title: A Double Challenge in Software Requirements Management Authors: Boxer, P. Brownsword, L. & Smith, D. Collaborating across boundaries to provide flexible responses to changing situations means anticipating potential component systems and the granularity of…
Title: Achieving Agility in Cyberspace Authors: Boxer, P. Morris, E., Anderson, W. Where published: 10th NDIA Systems Engineering Conference Proceedings In response to the growing capabilities of potential adversaries, the U.S. Air Force is chartering…
by Philip Boxer Lawrence and Lorsch (1969) originated the framework of differentiation and integration for describing the agency of an enterprise. Their argument was that there had to be congruence between the forms of differentiation…
by Philip Boxer How are we to approach the relationship to the situation intended by reflective observation in triple loop learning? How do we ‘read between the lines’?[1] This involves looking for the gaps between…
by Philip Boxer Consider the relationship between a client and a service supplier in which a problem is being presented. They can each ask “who knows who knows best” what to do about the problem,…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD Espoused theory, theory-in-use and the systemic Culture can be understood as the tacit assumptions reigning over ‘how we do things around here’. To some extent these can be drawn…