Title :
Collaborative systems thinking: Uncovering the rules of team-level systems thinking
Author :
Lamb, Caroline Twomey ; Rhodes, Donna H.
Author_Institution :
Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
As the aerospace workforce braces itself for the dasiasilver tsunami,psila more emphasis is needed on how to develop systems skills in engineering workforce research has shown this knowledge is tacit and based in experience. However, with nearly one-third of the industry´s employees eligible for retirement, this systems-level knowledge is at risk of being lost. This paper focuses on the team as the unit of analysis and the elements of design process and team culture that foster collaborative systems thinking teams. Eight pilot interviews, ten full case studies and 14 abbreviated case studies were used to explore dasiacollaborative systems thinking,psila or team-level systems thinking. From these data a definition of collaborative systems thinking is derived and generalizations about collaborative systems thinking teams are presented.
Keywords :
aerospace engineering; groupware; systems analysis; aerospace industry; collaborative systems thinking; team-level systems thinking; workforce development; Aerodynamics; Aerospace engineering; Aerospace industry; Collaborative work; Feedback; Humans; International collaboration; Knowledge engineering; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Systems engineering and theory; collaborative systems thinking; engineering teams; systems thinking; workforce development;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Conference, 2009 3rd Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3462-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3463-3
DOI :
10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815837