379 Pages 111 B/W Illustrations
    by Auerbach Publications

    378 Pages 111 B/W Illustrations
    by Auerbach Publications

    Rapidly changing market, technological, and organizational environments are forcing government and private sector enterprises to improve services and transform processes. Employing a case study approach, the Enterprise Dynamics Sourcebook presents frameworks and analytical models of the enterprise as a complex system to improve your understanding of its dynamic elements and their interactions.

    Illustrating the transformation environments and the evolution of methods required to address emerging challenges, this sourcebook is the product of MITRE-sponsored research on enterprise dynamics and the range of applications pertaining to enterprise transformation programs. It explains how to address the complexities involved with the coordination of policies, organizations, economics, and technology (POET) in operational strategies and processes. It also:

    • Presents qualitative and quantitative data-analytic methods including process workflow, systems dynamics, and highly optimized tolerance-inspired models of SoSE processes
    • Features Bayesian probability and state-space transition methods to address uncertainties in the controlled, influenced, and uncontrolled aspects of enterprise dynamics
    • Explains how to use hybrid multi-scale modeling coupled with enterprise architecture to support decision making in the design, acquisition, and management of complex transformation efforts
    • Outlines methods applicable in the national security, aviation, nuclear waste processing, international commerce, energy and materials, and healthcare sectors of the U.S. economy

    The structures and concepts covered in this book will be useful to managers and technical staff in government entities as well as private sector enterprises with significant operational and regulatory interaction with government entities. The enterprise dynamics methods discussed can help in the advancement of systems engineering practices at the enterprise level and also enable the enterprise systems engineering and architecting (ESE/A) process.

    Filled with examples, the text provides the understanding of the qualitative and quantitative data-analytic methods required to reduce risk and failure rates and enable your organization to operate effectively in today’s complex and ever-changing environment.

    FOUNDATIONS AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
    Defining Enterprise and Transformation Challenges; Kenneth C. Hoffman, William J. Bunting, and Anne Cady
    From Systems Engineering to Enterprise Systems Engineering; Kenneth C. Hoffman
    Foundations of Enterprise Systems Engineering and Architecting; Christopher G. Glazner
    Enterprise Dynamics Methods and Models; Kenneth C. Hoffman, William J. Bunting, Christopher G. Glazner, and Leonard A. Wojcik
    Managing Enterprise Transformation Using ESE/A; Fran Dougherty, Elaine S. Ward, and Kenneth C. Hoffman

    ENTERPRISE MODELING APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS
    Simulation of Enterprise Architecture for a Business Strategy; Christopher G. Glazner
    Reasoning on Technology Uncertainties for Enterprise Transformation; William J. Bunting
    Optimal Control and Differential Game Modeling of a Systems Engineering Process for Transformation; Leonard A. Wojcik and Kenneth C. Hoffman
    Hybrid Systems Dynamic, Petri Net, and Agent-Based Modeling of the Air and Space Operations Center; Jennifer Mathieu, John James , Paula Mahoney, Lindsley G. Boiney, Richard Hubbard, and Brian E. White
    Nuclear Waste Management Strategic Framework for a Large-Scale Government Program; Gregory A. Love, Christopher G. Glazner, Samuel G. Steckley, Kristin Lee , and Teresa A. Tyborowski
    International Trade and Commerce: Enterprise Systems Engineering and Architecture in a Multiagency Environment; William J. Bunting and Kenneth C. Hoffman
    Energy and Materials Systems as an Enterprise Systems Engineering Application: Planning and Analysis for the Economy’s Infrastructure; Bradley C. Schoener, Samuel G. Steckley, David H. Reid, Patrick B. Mahoney, Daniel B. Chamberlain, and Kenneth C. Hoffman
    Modeling the Nation’s Healthcare System as a Dynamic Enterprise; Fran Dougherty, Kenneth C. Hoffman, Honora R. Huntington, Joseph K. Jun, Dave Klein, Kristin Lee, Bradley C. Schoener, and Mark Walters
    Epilogue: Enterprise Systems Engineering and Architecting—Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead; Kenneth C. Hoffman, William J. Bunting, Anne Cady, Christopher G. Glazner, and Leonard A. Wojcik

    Acronyms
    Bibliography
    Index

    Biography

    Kenneth C. Hoffman is a senior principal systems engineer at The MITRE Corporation's Center for Connected Government. He earned a PhD in Systems Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from New York University. He is engaged in planning and analysis of energy, healthcare, and financial systems.Ken has over 40 years of experience in R&D and executive management in manufacturing and service organizations. He was chairman of the Department of Energy and Environment, and director of the National Center for Analysis of Energy Systems, at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He led the development of energy system-economic models and their application to national energy R&D planning. In addition he was engaged in R&D on energy and materials technology and was project engineer on experimental facilities including the Brookhaven Solar Neutrino Observatory. His career path from Brookhaven included executive management positions at the Mathtech Division of Mathematica Corporation (1980-1985) and (upon acquisition) at Martin Marietta Corporation (1985-1990), then to his current position at The MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates five federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). William J. Bunting is a principal information systems engineer at the MITRE Corporation's Center for Connected Government and earned a PhD in Information Technology from George Mason University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He supports enterprise transformations in federal agencies involved in border management, immigration, and defense. He has over 30 years of experience in enterprise architecture, requirements engineering, and systems engineering. His focus has been on aligning technology investments to strategic goal attainment, effective use of enterprise architecture infor