Organizing for a complex world
Subtitle: designing, developing, and deploying tomorrow's defense and net-centric systems
By: edited by Guy Ben-Ari and Pierre A. Chao.
Contributors: Ben-Ari, Guy, 1973-; Chao, Pierre A.
Series: Significant issues series -- v. 30, no. 8
Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780892065516
Subjects: United States. -- Dept. of Defense -- Management; Defense industries -- Technological innovations -- United States; Weapons systems -- Technological innovations -- United States; Systems engineering -- Technological innovations -- United States; Information technology -- Government policy -- United States; Computer networks -- Government policy -- United States; Computational complexity; United States -- Defenses; United States -- Armed Forces -- Technological innovations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Framing the issue / Guy Ben-Ari and Matthew Zlatnik; title: Making governance matter more : oversight, insight, and foresight in complex systems procurements / Michael Schrage; title: Models for governing large systems projects / Harvey M. Sapolsky; title: Competition and innovation under complexity / Jeffrey A. Drezner; title: Systems integration for complex defense projects / Eugene Gholz; title: A new way of thinking about enterprise capability development : network-centric, enterprise-wide system-of-systems engineering / Jeremy M. Kaplan; title: Engineering of complex systems : challenges in the theory and practice / Douglas O. Norman; title: Managing "mega-projects" : lessons for future combat systems / Marco Iansiti; title: Managing government effectively in a complex environment : influencing networks through the network campaign / W. Scott Gould and Julie M. Anderson; title: Human capital for complexity / David H. Dombkins.