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Essential Business Challenges

William B Rouse

This book represents the author's reflections on these engagements, associated challenges, and typical outcomes. These stories are reports about clients or sponsors' problems and how he and his colleagues went…

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Essential Business Challenges

William B Rouse

This book represents the author's reflections on these engagements, associated challenges, and typical outcomes. These stories are reports about clients or sponsors' problems and how he and his colleagues went…

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From Human-Centered Design to Human-Centered Society

William B. Rouse

This book addresses the inherent tension underlying the pursuit of this balance. It has played a central role in society at least since the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840). Thus, the story…

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From Human-Centered Design to Human-Centered Society

William B. Rouse

This book addresses the inherent tension underlying the pursuit of this balance. It has played a central role in society at least since the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840). Thus, the story…

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The Power of Games

William B Rouse

The principal focus of this book is on how games foster human playing, learning, and competing, including how we can design games to do this better. The author provides a…

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The Power of Games

William B Rouse

The principal focus of this book is on how games foster human playing, learning, and competing, including how we can design games to do this better. The author provides a…

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Innovation Ecosystems

William B Rouse

This book is about geography, economics, society, and innovation. Why did different regions evolve in different ways? The author believes that happenstance played a relatively minor role in this process.

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Innovation Ecosystems

William B Rouse

This book is about geography, economics, society, and innovation. Why did different regions evolve in different ways? The author believes that happenstance played a relatively minor role in this process.

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Bigger Pictures for Innovation: Creating Solutions, Managing Enterprises, and Influencing Policies

William B. Rouse

This book comprises a set of stories about being an engineer for many decades and the lessons the author learned from research and practice. These lessons focus on people and…

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Bigger Pictures for Innovation: Creating Solutions, Managing Enterprises, and Influencing Policies

William B. Rouse

This book comprises a set of stories about being an engineer for many decades and the lessons the author learned from research and practice. These lessons focus on people and…

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Universities as Complex Enterprises: How Academia Works, Why It Works These Ways, and Where the University Enterprise Is Headed

William B. Rouse

Explores the nature of academic enterprises, including why they work the way they do and where such enterprises are headed, with the goal of gaining insights into where change can…

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People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-centered Design

William B. Rouse

People and Organizations is about people who operate, maintain, design, research, and manage complex systems, ranging from air traffic control systems, process control plants and manufacturing facilities to industrial enterprises…

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Essential Challenges of Strategic Management

William B. Rouse

Illustrating the major strategic challenges faced by executives and senior managers, this text articulates a range of choices of methods and tools rather than advocating one particular method. It features…

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Design for Success: A Human-centred Approach to Designing Successful Products and Systems

William B. Rouse

Aims to provide a methodological framework to the subject by discussing a range of approaches and tools, and by illustrating techniques with case studies. The goal of the authors is…

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Strategies for Innovation: Creating Successful Products, Systems, and Organizations

William B. Rouse

The principles of successful market-oriented and human-centered design are used to analyze the formation of a good business enterprise.

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Catalysis for Change: Concepts and Principles for Enabling Innovation

William B. Rouse

Aimed at engineers and managers of technology-based enterprises, this text explains how to solve problems associated with product planning and strategic thinking. It concentrates on the understanding of global markets…

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Modeling and Visualization of Complex Systems and Enterprises: Explorations of Physical, Human, Economic, and Social Phenomena

William B. Rouse

Explains multi-level models of enterprise systems and covers modeling methodology This book addresses the essential phenomena underlying the overall behaviors of complex systems and enterprises. Understanding these phenomena can enable…

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Don’t Jump to Solutions: Thirteen Delusions That Undermine Strategic Thinking

Rouse

This work aims to uncover the most common delusions - the untested assumptions, short-term focus, and illusions of infallibility - that stand in the way of businesses developing realistic business…

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Beyond Quick Fixes

Dr William B. Rouse

Beyond Quick Fixes steps back from business as usual to rethink how we can approach the complex challenges of contemporary society--health, education, energy, and social media.

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Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures

Jens Rasmussen,William B. Rouse

This book includes all of the papers presented at the NATO Symposium on Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures held at Roskilde, Denmark on August 4-8, 1980. The goal…

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The Economics of Human Systems Integration: Valuation of Investments in People’s Training and Education, Safety and Health, and Work Productivity

William B. Rouse,Richard Drawbaugh

Human Systems Integration is a new but fundamental integrating discipline in moving business and engineering cultures toward a more people-technology orientation. Economics of Human Systems Integration provides essential economic concepts…

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Failure Management: Malfunctions of Technologies, Organizations, and Society

William B. Rouse (Research Professor, Research Professor, Georgetown University)

William B. Rouse explores eighteen well-known cases of high-consequence failures to outline a conceptual approach to integrated failure management, enabling a cross-cutting of system design principles and practices and an…

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Transforming Public-Private Ecosystems: Understanding and Enabling Innovation in Complex Systems

William B. Rouse (Research Professor, Research Professor, Georgetown University)

Public-private collaborations are key to the functioning of most essential ecosystems such as security, healthcare, education, and energy. William B. Rouse addresses the challenges of transforming these ecosystems and provides…

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Work, Workflow and Information Systems

Brings together several perspectives on the nature of work processes in enterprises and on how information systems can best support these processes. This volume is divided into two main sections…

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Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management

Andrew P. Sage,William B. Rouse

Presents a multifaceted view of systems engineering from process and systems management perspectives. This handbook provides topical coverage that includes: systems engineering life cycles and management; risk management; discovering system…

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Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment: Intensive Systems, Organizations,and Enterprises

Andrew P. Sage,William B. Rouse

Focusing on economic systems analysis and assessment, this book provides coverage on various topics including microeconomic systems and assessment, cost effectiveness, cost estimation for software and systems, strategic investments, and…

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Organizational Simulation

William B. Rouse,Kenneth R. Boff

Computer-based simulation has long been used to project the behavior of systems too complex for analytical calculation.

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Computing Possible Futures

William B. Rouse (Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University)

Computing Possible Futures provides an easy to digest tour of modeling, simulation, analytics, and AI and how these technologies can enable better decision making.

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Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges: Education, Energy, Healthcare, Security, and Resilience

Elisabeth Pate-Cornell,William B. Rouse,Charles M. Vest

Examines current and prospective challenges surrounding global challenges of education, energy, healthcare, security, and resilience This book discusses issues in large-scale systems in the United States and around the world.

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Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering - A Modeling and Simulation Approach

S Mittal,Saikou Diallo,Andreas Tolk

A comprehensive text that reviews the methods and technologies that explore emergent behavior in complex systems engineering in multidisciplinary fields

In Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering, the authors present…

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Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare

William B. Rouse (Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology),Nicoleta Serban (Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)

An argument that understanding healthcare delivery as a complex adaptive system will help us design a system that yields better health outcomes.

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Shakespeare’s Ovid: Being Arthur Golding’s Translation of the Metamorphoses

Arthur 1536-1606 Golding

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

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Shakespeare’s Ovid: Being Arthur Golding’s Translation of the Metamorphoses

Arthur 1536-1606 Golding

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

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Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market

Cecilia A. Conrad

Building Skills for Black Workers assesses the current gap in education and training between African American and white workers, and explores possible remedies. This multi-author volume begins with an examination…

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Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market

Cecilia A. Conrad

Building Skills for Black Workers assesses the current gap in education and training between African American and white workers, and explores possible remedies. This multi-author volume begins with an examination…

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Essential Business Challenges

Essential Business Challenges

From Human-Centered Design to Human-Centered Society

From Human-Centered Design to Human-Centered Society

The Power of Games

The Power of Games

Innovation Ecosystems

Innovation Ecosystems

Bigger Pictures for Innovation: Creating Solutions, Managing Enterprises, and Influencing Policies

Bigger Pictures for Innovation: Creating Solutions, Managing Enterprises, and Influencing Policies

Universities as Complex Enterprises: How Academia Works, Why It Works These Ways, and Where the University Enterprise Is Headed

People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-centered Design

Essential Challenges of Strategic Management

Design for Success: A Human-centred Approach to Designing Successful Products and Systems

Strategies for Innovation: Creating Successful Products, Systems, and Organizations

Catalysis for Change: Concepts and Principles for Enabling Innovation

Modeling and Visualization of Complex Systems and Enterprises: Explorations of Physical, Human, Economic, and Social Phenomena

Don’t Jump to Solutions: Thirteen Delusions That Undermine Strategic Thinking

Beyond Quick Fixes

Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures

The Economics of Human Systems Integration: Valuation of Investments in People’s Training and Education, Safety and Health, and Work Productivity

Failure Management: Malfunctions of Technologies, Organizations, and Society

Transforming Public-Private Ecosystems: Understanding and Enabling Innovation in Complex Systems

Work, Workflow and Information Systems

Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management

Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment: Intensive Systems, Organizations,and Enterprises

Organizational Simulation

Computing Possible Futures

Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges: Education, Energy, Healthcare, Security, and Resilience

Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering - A Modeling and Simulation Approach

Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare

Shakespeare’s Ovid: Being Arthur Golding’s Translation of the Metamorphoses

Shakespeare’s Ovid: Being Arthur Golding’s Translation of the Metamorphoses

Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market

Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market

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