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  • Pari Singh is the CEO of Flow Engineering

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    - https://www.thesystemsengineeringpodcast.com/podcast-012/

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    - Flow Engineering: https://flowengineering.com/

    - Pari’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parisingh/

    OUTLINE TIMESTAMPS:

    00:00:00 - Introduction

    00:01:00 - Flow Engineering

    00:03:06 - Systems Engineering and Design Teams

    00:06:02 - The Evolution of Systems Engineering Tools

    00:11:11 - Building Capability Step by Step

    00:13:20 - Analogue, Digital, and Systems Phases of Engineering

    00:16:14 - Flow Engineering's Genesis and Mission

    00:25:54 - Client Engagement and Product Lifecycle

    00:29:44 - Systems Engineering and Modern Industries

    00:36:11 - Navigating the Various Engineering Tools

    00:42:52 - Safety Concerns in Fast-Paced Engineering

    00:45:02 - Far future

    00:49:22 - Vertical Integration and Manufacturing Decisions

    00:53:29 - Avoid being spread too thin

    01:01:08 - Role of AI

    01:04:50 - Closing

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  • Ivan Mactaggart was INCOSE UK President 2016 – 2018.

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    - INCOSE UK (to be renamed IfSE): https://INCOSEuk.org/
    - Ivan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanmactaggart/

    OUTLINE TIMESTAMPS:
    00:00 - Introduction
    01:59 - Experience and perspectives as INCOSE UK president.
    04:36 - Priorities during his presidency
    09:18 - INCOSE UK’s journey to be a Professional Engineering Institution and rename to the Institute for Systems Engineering (IfSE)
    18:17 - Relationships and friendships formed in INCOSE
    22:31 - Member to becoming the president of INCOSE UK
    38:38 - Role of INCOSE UK in influencing engineering policy
    50:10 - Ivan's current work in rail
    53:12 - Closing thoughts

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  • https://www.thesystemsengineeringpodcast.com/podcast-010/

    Discussion with Prof. Olivier de Weck about Technology Roadmapping. Including his 2022 book "Technology Roadmapping and Development: A Quantitative Approach to the Management of Technology"

    Olivier is Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT & the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Previously Olivier was Editor-in-Chief for INCOSE’s Systems Engineering journal and Senior Vice President for Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus.

    Links from discussion: 1. MIT Professional Education courses (including Technology Roadmapping): https://professional.mit.edu/programs/faculty-profiles/olivier-de-weck 2. Olivier's 2022 Book: "Technology Roadmapping and Development": https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88346-1 3. MIT's Roadmaps Home Page: https://roadmaps.mit.edu/index.php/Main_Page Time stamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:00 What is technology Rd mapping and why should their organisation be doing it? 00:02:10 1962 JFK speech “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade…” example of a roadmap? 00:05:55 Figures of Merit (FoM), Utopian points, unachievable roadmaps & solar powered aircraft 00:10:22 Multidisciplinary nature of roadmaps & CFOs Chief Financial Officer is perhaps the most powerful person in the company 00:13:54 Value of traceability. Strategic Drivers to Roadmaps to Figures of Merit to R&D Projects Portfolio 00:16:47 Size of organisations to use roadmaps. Airbus is very complicated company… 00:19:03 Interfacing to suppliers of subsystems (e.g. aero engines) 00:23:36 Large amounts of information & keeping roadmaps updated 00:30:53 Disruptive innovation and Figure of Merit Changes 00:33:40 Handling disruptions from outside an industry (e.g. COVID-19, September 11th, Financial crisis of 2008) 00:36:51 MIT Online Course on Technology Roadmapping 00:38:14 Closing
  • https://www.thesystemsengineeringpodcast.com/podcast-009/

    Discussion with Jordan about the current state of Systems Engineering and where it can go in the future. Before founding QRA Corp, Jordan was a professor of quantum physics at Dalhousie University.

    “QRA Corp’s mission is to accelerate the design process across industries who are tackling the most complex systems by empowering them to build tomorrow’s safe, secure, and incredibly powerful products. QRA’s technology, patented toolsets, and capabilities have been used to avoid stressful reworks, enable confident engineering, and find previously undetected catastrophic flaws.”

    https://qracorp.com/
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordankyriakidis/
    https://jordan-kyriakidis.medium.com/

    Time stamps:
    0:00:00 Introduction
    0:00:56 Jordan's Background
    0:01:24 QRA is centered on requirements and improving requirements
    0:07:56 Entrepreneurship background
    0:12:01 Current state of systems engineering
    0:15:44 Impact of quantum computers
    0:17:49 Rise in AI
    0:22:06 Industries in demand for systems engineering
    0:24:23 Culture differences in various domains
    0:26:29 Processing requirements in different languages?
    0:28:01 System Engineering in the next 10 years
    0:33:37 Largest semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia
    0:35:25 Demand of quality products from the consumers
    0:36:40 Advice for novices in system engineering
    0:39:40 Design level thinking
    0:41:31 Jordan transition from being a Professor to CEO
    0:45:51 Career opportunities at QRA Corp
    0:47:53 Impact of Covid in day to day business operations
    0:53:22 Conclusion

  • Discussion with Mats Larsson regarding United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

    Mats Larsson is author of: The Blind Guardians of Ignorance: Covid-19, Sustainability, and Our Vulnerable. A handbook for change leaders, young and old.

    Amazon USA: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Guardians-Ignorance-Sustainability-Vulnerable/dp/1788360486/

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    Audio only available: https://www.joshuasutherland.com/podcast-008/

    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro – Music

    00:12 Episode

    29:37 Get in contact

  • Discussion with Mats Larsson regarding Boris Johnson’s “Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution for 250,000 jobs” announced on 2020-11-18:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-outlines-his-ten-point-plan-for-a-green-industrial-revolution-for-250000-jobs https://www.edie.net/news/11/Boris-Johnson-unveils--12bn-spending-commitment-for-10-point-net-zero-transition-plan/

    Mats Larsson is author of: The Blind Guardians of Ignorance: Covid-19, Sustainability, and Our Vulnerable. A handbook for change leaders, young and old.

    Amazon USA: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Guardians-Ignorance-Sustainability-Vulnerable/dp/1788360486/ Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blind-Guardians-Ignorance-Sustainability-Vulnerable/dp/1788360486 Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Blind-Guardians-Ignorance-Sustainability-Vulnerable/dp/1788360486/

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    Timestamps:
    00:00 Intro – Music
    00:12 Intro – To episode Boris Johnson’s “Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution for 250,000 jobs”
    01:38 Need for a systems approach
    42:20 Reviewing each of the Ten Points
    52:25 Closing

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  • Interview with Mats Larsson author of:
    The Blind Guardians of Ignorance: Covid-19, Sustainability, and Our Vulnerable. A handbook for change leaders, young and old.

    Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blind-Guardians-Ignorance-Sustainability-Vulnerable/dp/1788360486

    MATS’S WEB LINKS: http://getinstitute.com/mats-r-larsson/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mats-larsson-4098392/ Podcast Page:

    https://www.joshuasutherland.com/podcast-006/

    Timestamps: 00:00 Intro – Music 00:10 Intro – Mats Larsson 00:53 Explain the book title 01:37 What are the challenges for the future? 03:41 Sustainability is not about the environment? Peak oil? 06:12 Book structure. 1. Age of Ignorance. 2. Driving the Change. 3. Starting the Transformation. 08:34 The Age of Ignorance. Covid-19 exposes production challenges? Economic growth challenges? How to maintain growth? 16:20 What is the end state? Where do we want society to go? 18:46 Who is working on the economic research for stable state economies? 20:04 Why not follow Elon Musk to Mars? 22:59 Taking for granted luxuries of the modern world? Production systems are fragile? 25:46 How does Covid-19 change your thinking on these topics? 30:08 Efficiency removes buffers, but we need buffers for resilience? 32:31 Economic measures of resilience? 36:46 Growth model is in the human spirit? In our DNA? 40:16 “A handbook” for change leaders. What is a handbook and who is a change leader? 45:10 Change management. How slow change can be in large companies. Can we make such big changes in a quick time? Like WW2? Examples of these large endeavours. 54:13 Does IT technology not make things easier now to meet the challenges? 57:48 People are now experts. No one is looking at the big picture and addressing the big picture problems? 1:01:11 People are more interested in sustainability now, but are Greta’s environmental protests useful? What should people do? 1:05:45 Large companies often have people with the skills needed. Business managers. 1:06:38 How did Mats get into this area? 1:10:06 Change in public awareness of the ideas over the last 30 years 1:14:07 How are these projects financed? 1:17:05 Electric vehicles. What is your advice for auto executives and governments? 1:24:24 Governments need to finance breakthrough technologies? 1:27:40 Do we need competition to tackle the challenges of the future? USA vs. China vs. EU ? 1:37:30 Tesla created their own infrastructure for electric vehicle charging. Good idea?1:41:36 We need people to run experiments of business models for sustainability? 1:48:35 What are the key points you would like a reader to take away from reading your book? 1:53:36 Rate to convert conventional vehicles to electric vehicles 2:00:25 How to get the book. When it is out? What is the cover like? 2:02:26 Final thoughts 2:04:03 Contact details
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    In this episode we are going to be exploring the CONSEQUENCES of COVID-19 on SYSTEMS ENGINEERING with SE experts from around the world.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 Intro - Mini
    00:20 Intro - Full
    02:11 Dov Dori - Technion & MIT
    06:29 Bruce Cameron - MIT & Technology Strategy Partners
    09:30 Mo Mansouri - Stevens Institute of Technology
    11:38 Jon Holt - Scarecrow Consultants & Cranfield University
    15:25 Alan Harding - BAE Systems & INCOSE Past President
    17:56 Mike Johnson - SE-Training GmbH
    21:59 Mohammad Chami - Chami Consulting
    24:47 Joshua Sutherland
    31:34 Outro


    Guest details:

    Prof. Dov Dori https://web.iem.technion.ac.il/en/people/userprofile/dori.html
    Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology & Visiting Professor at MIT
    Inventor of Object Process Methodology (OPM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Process_Methodology
    OPM Book: http://bit.ly/MBSE-with-OPM OPM Software: https://www.opcloud.tech/ OPM Online Training: https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/israelx-model-based-systems-engineering

    Bruce Cameron is the Director of the System Architecture Group at MIT, and a co-founder of Technology Strategy Partners.
    http://systemarchitect.mit.edu/
    http://t-s-partners.com/

    Prof. Mo Mansouri, PhD
    Mo is a faculty member at School of Systems and Enterprises and the Program Director for Systems Engineering Programs at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting professor at University of South-Eastern Norway. He teaches Research Methodology at doctorate, Systems Thinking and Governing Development at master and Operations Management at bachelor levels. His research on Systems Governance, Policy Designs and Resilience in Societal Systems.
    https://web.stevens.edu/facultyprofile/?id=1301

    Prof. Jon Holt PhD, BEng, CEng FIET, FBCS CITP, MINCOSE
    Jon is current director of Scarecrow Consultants., the Technical Director of INCOSE UK and a Professor of Systems Engineering at Cranfield University. He is the author of 15 books on model-based Systems Engineering, and in 2015 was identified as one of the 25th most-influential Systems Engineers by INCOSE.
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-holt-a4a5bb1/
    https://www.scarecrowconsultants.co.uk/

    Alan Harding CEng FIET MINCOSE
    Alan Harding is the lead for information systems engineering within the BAE Systems - Air business in the UK. He has over 30 years experience in systems engineering. Alan is a past president of INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering).
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/alan_shropshire

    Mike Johnson CSEP
    Mike is a Systems Engineering expert based in Switzerland, with a strong passion for complex problem solving and holistic thinking.
    SE-Training GmbH
    https://www.se-training.net/en/

    Mohammad Chami
    Founder of Chami Consulting | MBSE Services, and a full-time, tool-independent, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) consultant.
    Website: https://chamiconsulting.com/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohachami
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MohammadChami

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    Tags: Systems Engineering, Covid-19, Coronavirus, MBSE, Model-Based Systems Engineering, Object Process Methodology, OPM, SysML
    #COVID19 #SystemsEngineering #coronavirus

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  • Interview with Ricardo Viana Vargas – Brightline Project Management Institute (PMI) – Project Management & Strategy Implementation

    http://www.joshuasutherland.com/podcast-004/

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    https://www.brightline.org/

  • Heinz Stoewer – Space Systems Engineer & INCOSE Past President on the Joshua Sutherland Podcast.

    http://www.joshuasutherland.com/podcast-003/

    Check out Heinz’s profile on INCOSE’s website: https://www.incose.org/docs/default-source/memberspotlight/past-president-heinz-stoewer.pdf?sfvrsn=2&sfvrsn=2

  • Interview with Hillary Sillitto author of “Architecting Systems: Concepts, Principles and Practice”
    Check out Hillary’s website here to learn more about the book: http://sillittoenterprises.com/

    Links to things mentioned in the interview:

    Book: Architecting Systems – concepts, principles and practice. By Hillary Sillitto, 2014 Journal Paper: Dori, Dov, and Hillary Sillitto. “What is a system? An ontological framework.” Systems Engineering 20.3 (2017): 207-219. Conference Paper: Sillitto, Hillary, Dov Dori, Regina M. Griego, Scott Jackson, Daniel Krob, Patrick Godfrey, Eileen Arnold, James Martin, and Dorothy McKinney. “Defining “system”: a comprehensive approach.” In INCOSE International Symposium, vol. 27, no. Journal: https://physicsworld.com/ Challenger Shuttle Disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster INCOSE Complexity Primer White Paper: https://www.incose.org/docs/default-source/ProductsPublications/a-complexity-primer-for-systems-engineers.pdf?sfvrsn=0&sfvrsn=0 INCOSE Complexity Primer Presentation: https://www.incose.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/complexity-primer-overview.pdf?sfvrsn=0 Book: Systems Architecting: Creating & Building Complex Systems. By Eberhardt Rechtin, 1990. Book: Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations. By Robert Rosen, 2012 Book: The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software. By Barry Boehm, Jo Ann Lane, Supannika Koolmanojwong, Richard Turner, 2014. Book: Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations. By Robert Rosen, 2012 INCOSE papers and presentations library: https://www.incose.org/ProductsPublications/Papers-Presentations-library
  • Interview with Bryan R. Moser – The nature of teamwork via the study and design of socio-technical systems: http://www.mit.edu/~bry/ Academic Director and Sr. Lecturer, System Design and Management (SDM) @ MIT: https://sdm.mit.edu/ Associate Director, Strategic Engineering Research Group @ MIT: http://strategic.mit.edu/ Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences @ the University of Tokyo: https://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html.en Director, Global Teamwork Lab @ the University of Tokyo: https://gtl.edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/home Founder of the company Global Project Design (GPD): http://www.teamport.com/ Further information: http://www.joshuasutherland.com/podcast-001/