Engineering Systems Division: Recent submissions

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    • Lean Enterprises – A Systems Perspective 

      Nightingale, Deborah J. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      Becoming a “Lean Enterprise” is increasingly being recognized as an important strategy in achieving critical strategic goals such as responsiveness, cycle time and cost across all phases of the product life cycle. The ...

    • System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World 

      Sterman, John (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      Todays problems often arise as unintended consequences of yesterdays solutions. Social systems often suffer from policy resistance, the tendency for well-intentioned interventions to be defeated by the response of the ...

    • Defining Engineering Systems: Investigating National Missile Defense 

      Zuckerman, Brian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      The MIT Engineering Systems Division is currently building its intellectual framework. There is not yet consensus within ESD as to which tools and methods are central to the nascent engineering systems approach; which ...