Triantis, Kostas with Hazhir Rahmandad and Warren Vaneman, "Systems Engineering: Have we lost our Competitive Edge? A Consideration of the Dynamics of Systems Engineering Projects", 2009 July 26-2009 July 30
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Recent media reports include several large systems engineering failures. These failures are especially alarming given that they span different sectors (i.e., shipbuilding and space systems), and are not isolated to one firm. Therefore we need to ask: Have we lost our systems engineering competitive edge? What can the systems engineering discipline do to correct the apparent discrepancies that appear to be at the root cause of these failures?