m08 Dynamic Models for Systems Engineering
... to tackle Enterprise plans and challenges
Systems Engineering is a long-established discipline for planning and managing physical systems projects. But systems engineers are increasingly asked to help with enterprise management challenges.
Different methods needed. But to fulfil that demand requires both a method and tools that can handle the diversity of factors involved in enterprise issues - people, customers, products, capacity, cash ... And those methods and tools must be both reliable and practical to use.
This short course shows how dynamic models can fulfil those needs and enable systems engineers to help management with any enterprise-level initiative or challenge.
What is this mini-course about?
Split into bite-size lessons, this 1-hour mini-course:
... why systems engineers may need to tackle enterprise issues - and the wide variety of those issues
... explains how dynamic business models work, and how they relate to what systems engineers already understand
... provides working examples of dynamic business models
... demonstrates the value and practicality of dynamic models for planning and managing enterprise management issues
Who is this course for?
Senior leaders – who want to understand how a systems engineering mindset can help them tackle enterprise management challenges, not just physical systems and projects - and how dynamic models help fulfil that need
Systems engineers – who want to tackle enterprise management challenges, but need the method and tools to enable that ambition
Analysts and consultants – who want to support leaders and systems engineering colleagues with powerful models that play out management plans, initiatives and challenges.
Course Curriculum
Kim Warren
Kim is an experienced strategy professional, teacher and publisher of online courses and teaching resources on business modeling – fast becoming a main-stream capability for executives, consultants and business students. He also offers resources to help model non-business challenges, notably in health-care and international aid.
After senior corporate strategy roles, Kim joined London Business School, to teach on MBA and Executive programs. To overcome serious limitations with standard strategy methods, he developed the powerful strategy dynamics modelling method for designing and managing strategy for any organisation or challenge. Once a specialist skill, building these simulations is now easier, faster and more reliable than spreadsheet modeling. Such models mimic real-world behaviour and performance of businesses and other organisations with uncanny realism.
Kim is author of the prize-winning Competitive Strategy Dynamics (Wiley, 2002), a major strategy textbook Strategic Management Dynamics (Wiley, 2008), and summary e-book now widely used in MBA and executive teaching – Strategy Dynamics Essentials (Kindle, 2011). He is also co-founder of Strategy Dynamics Ltd, which publishes "serious games" and online courses exploiting the user-friendly modelling application, Silico.
