Abstract
There are many significant challenges facing the world, necessitating innovative and ef-fective systems and products to enable a prosperous and sustainable future. However, successful delivery of innovative systems is very difficult. We argue that appropriate application of Systems Engineering and Systems Thinking plays a critical role in ensuring innovations have the best chance of success. Although many innovation methodologies exist, few incorporate the concepts or vocab-ulary of Systems Thinking in a structured way. This paper attempts to rectify this, by taking some basic innovation concepts and a simple structured approach to thinking about the system and its wider environment, and showing how they can be integrated in order to augment innovation pro-cesses with Systems Thinking concepts. Through applying Systems Engineering principles to the innovation context we identify innovation traps that may arise when failing to think about a system in its wider context, and we provide detailed case studies to illustrate our points.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 30th INCOSE International Symposium |
| Publisher | International Council for Systems Engineering |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Jul 2020 |
Keywords
- Systems Thinking
- innovation
- systems engineering