Strategies for system planning: Difference between revisions

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An Engineer-it module managed by the Institution of Engineers in Scotland (www.engineers.scot)

Strategies Critical thinking Top-down strategy Risk control Collaboratve Leadership Quantify Wise governance Professional integrity
Papers To Engineer
Case Studies The UK Covid-19 Task Force A successful government project The development of an optical scanner (p22) How to develop an innovative product

Figure 1 Features of strategies used in system planning

This page provides infomation about strategies that are used in system planning i.e. in the the management of complex uncertainty.

Figure 1 shows key features of the strategies.

Key issues are competence, i.e. the skills of those inolved and governance, i.e. how responsibility, authority and accountabiliy are allocated.

Competence is shown as having two main components:

Disciplinary expertise i.e. the abilities of those involved to carry out specific tasks. It is common to require expertise from several disciplines
Ethos - the principles that guide the actions of the participants.

Whereas 'what you can do' might be described in term of disciplinary expertise, ethos is 'how you think'.

Critical thinking may be the most important feature of an engineered process. Critical thinkers identify and use guiding principles that lead to engineered outcomes.

Deep collaboration within the project team with unswerving commitment to the project goals are also key features of an engineered process.

Closely related to commitment is the requirement that the process is underpinned by the highest levels of professional integrity.

All this needs to be inspired by collaborative leadership.

Learning for system planning

See Learning for critical thinking

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-[http://www.iesis.org/toengineer/To-Engineer.pdf To Engineer]
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 |'''<big>Strategies</big>'''
 [[Critical thinking]]
-Leadership
+[[Top-down strategy]]
-Communication
+[[Risk|Risk control]]
+[[Leadership|Collaboratve Leadership]]
+[[Quantify]]
+Wise [[governance]]
+[[Integrity|Professional integrity]]
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+|'''Papers'''
+[https://engineers.scot/office/resources/publications/to-engineer.pdf To Engineer]
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-|'''<big>Case Studies</big>'''
+|'''Case Studies'''
-[https://www.engineers.scot/office/resources/publications/uk-vaccine-task-forcedocx.pdf The UK Covid-19 Task Force] A successful government project <br> <br>
+[https://engineers.scot/news/2021-04-08-opinion-the-government-must-use-engineered-processes-in-its-response-to-the-pandemic The UK Covid-19 Task Force] A successful government project <br>
-[[Queensferry Bridge]]  A well managed infrastructure project <br> <br>
 [http://info.iesis.org/papers/Journal+V156_web_secure.pdf The development of an optical scanner] (p22)  How to develop an innovative product
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-The verb 'to engineer' is used here to mean 'to use a range of strategies for achieving successful outcomes in situations of complex uncertainty'. Professional engineers will typically engineer the design of an aircraft or a bridge. Busineses are 'engineered' (or 're-engineered').  The strategies used have universal application in complex problem solving. They are not confined to the practice of engineering.
-[[File:engprocess.png|left|thumb|366x366px|Figure 1   Features of an 'engineered' process]]
+[[File:Engprocess-6.png|alt=|thumb|500x500px|Figure 1  Features of strategies used in system planning ]]
-Figure 1 shows some features of an engineered process.
-The key issues are ''competence'', i.e. the skills of those inolved and ''governance'',  i.e. how responsility, authority and accountabiliy is allocated.
+This page provides infomation about strategies that are used in [https://eit.engineers.scot/index.php?title=Main_Page#System_planning system planning] i.e. in the the management of complex uncertainty.
+Figure 1 shows key features of the strategies.
+Key issues are ''competence'', i.e. the skills of those inolved and ''[[governance]]'',  i.e. how responsibility, authority and accountabiliy are allocated.
+Competence is shown as having two main components:
-Competence is shown as having two main components:
+*Disciplinary expertise i.e. the abilities of those involved to carry out specific tasks.  It is common to require expertise from several disciplines
+*Ethos - the principles that guide the actions of the participants.
-*Disciplinary expertise i.e. the abilities of those involved to carry out specific tasks.  It is common to require expertise from several disciplines
+Whereas 'what you can do' might be described in term of disciplinary expertise, ethos is 'how you think'.
-* Ethos - the principles that guide the actions of the participants.
+[[Critical thinking]] may be the most important feature of an engineered process. Critical thinkers identify and use guiding principles that lead to engineered outcomes.
+Deep collaboration within the project team with unswerving commitment to the project goals are also key features of an engineered process.
+Closely related to commitment is the requirement that the process is underpinned by the highest levels of professional integrity.
-Whereas 'what you know' might be described in term of disciplinary expertise, ethos is 'how you think'. Ethos is a crtical issue in engineered processes.
+All this needs to be inspired by collaborative [[leadership]].
-Critical thinking is shown on the diagram as a subset of ethos but it can also be viewed as aoveraching concept.
+===Learning for system planning===
+See [https://eit.engineers.scot/index.php?title=Critical_thinking#Learning_for_critical_thinking Learning for critical thinking]