Strategies for system planning
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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.
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.