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    • The Human Element of Decision Making in Systems Engineers: A Focus on Optimism 

      Valerdi, Ricardo; Blackburn, Craig (2009)
      Biases continue to be an important aspect of human judgment and decision making because they can lead to unfavorable outcomes. Optimism bias is one type of bias that is often overlooked because of its association with ...
    • The Culture of innovation Styles: Are our Corporate Cultures Tuned for Innovation? 

      Czaika, Ellen; Valerdi, Ricardo (2009)
      Systems engineering work is requiring increasing collaboration among various enterperprises, nations, and individuals to innovate to meet the comlex needs of large numbers of stakeholders. This indicates a need to better ...
    • Principles of Enterprise Systems 

      Nightingale, Deborah (2009-06-15)
      The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through its Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) research team has been conducting research and facilitating enterprise-level transformations in large complex sociotechnical ...