Enterprise Systems Engineering: Advances in the Theory and Practice (Hardcover)

Although usually well-funded, systems development projects are often late to market and over budget. Worse still, many are obsolete before they can be deployed or the program is cancelled before delivery. Clearly, it is time for a new approach. With coverage ranging from the complex characteristics and behaviors of enterprises to the challenges they pose for engineering and technology, Enterprise Systems Engineering: Advances in the Theory and Practice examines the impacts of enterprise processes and leading-edge technologies on the evolution of an enterprise.

As much about history as it is about systems engineering, this book provides a snapshot of the early thinking in enterprise systems engineering—a snapshot taken before the memory of its perspective is corrupted by time. It discusses emerging methods essential to successful systems engineering. The editors define and examine key building blocks of the evolving field of enterprise systems engineering. They address the issues of the changing nature of systems engineering, lay out a recommended direction for the future, and provide a unified basis for moving toward a mature discipline with the expanded scope.

During the last decade, something has changed in the way people work together. Seldom do isolated groups work on local problems to build stove-pipe solutions and systems seldom are developed in a social, political, economic, or technical vacuum. Yet concerted attempts to better implement systems engineering seemed not to improve the situation. Standing on the threshold of a new era in systems engineering, the editors point an arrow in the direction of systems engineering evolution, a direction that is equal parts social change and technological change.

儘管通常資金充足，系統開發專案往往會延遲上市且超出預算。更糟糕的是，許多專案在部署之前就已經過時，或者在交付之前被取消。顯然，現在是時候採取新的方法了。《企業系統工程：理論與實踐的進展》從企業的複雜特性和行為到它們對工程和技術的挑戰，探討了企業流程和尖端技術對企業演進的影響。

這本書不僅關於系統工程，也關於歷史，它提供了企業系統工程早期思想的一個快照，這個快照是在時間的洗禮之前拍攝的，保持了其觀點的純淨。它討論了對成功的系統工程至關重要的新興方法。編者們定義並檢視了企業系統工程不斷演進的關鍵構建塊。他們討論了系統工程性質的變化問題，提出了未來的建議方向，並為邁向擴展範圍的成熟學科提供了統一基礎。

在過去的十年中，人們合作的方式發生了變化。很少有孤立的小組解決本地問題並建立獨立的系統，系統很少在社會、政治、經濟或技術真空中開發。然而，努力改進系統工程的企圖似乎並未改善情況。站在系統工程新時代的門檻上，編者們指出了系統工程演進的方向，這個方向既包含社會變革，也包含技術變革。