Wicked Problems How To Engineer A Better World

Author : Guru Madhavan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651479
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World written by Guru Madhavan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ode to systems engineers—whose invisible work undergirds our life—and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle. Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects—often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy—are known as wicked problems, and they are not going away anytime soon. In linked chapters focusing on key facets of systems engineering—efficiency, vagueness, vulnerability, safety, maintenance, and resilience—engineer Guru Madhavan illuminates how wicked problems have emerged throughout history and how best to address them in the future. He examines best-known tragedies and lesser-known tales, from the efficient design of battleships to a volcano eruption that curtailed global commerce, and how maintenance of our sanitation systems constitutes tikkun olam, or repair of our world. Braided throughout is the uplifting tale of Edwin Link, an unsung hero who revolutionized aviation with his flight trainer. In Link’s story, Madhavan uncovers a model mindset to engage with wickedness. An homage to society’s innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for readers of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice—one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.

Author : Jon Kolko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615593159
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicked Problems Worth Solving written by Jon Kolko and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It feels like our world is spinning out of control. We see poverty, disease, and destruction all around us, and as we search for ways to make sense of the chaos, we're turning to new disciplines for answers and solutions. New, creative innovations are needed, and these new approaches demand different methods and different theories. This book is presented as a handbook for teaching and learning how to design for impact. In it, you'll learn how to apply the process of design to large, wicked problems, and how to gain control over complexity by acting as a social entrepreneur. You'll learn an argument for why design is a powerful agent of change, and you'll read practical methods for engaging with large-scale social problems. You can read this entire book online for free at http://www.wickedproblems.com/

Author : Guru Madhavan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248003
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Minds: How Engineers Think written by Guru Madhavan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engineers are titans of real-world problem-solving. . . . In this riveting study of how they think, [Guru Madhavan] puts behind-the-scenes geniuses . . . center stage.”—Nature In this engaging account of innovative triumphs, Guru Madhavan examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and the disposable diaper. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we borrow strategies from engineering to find inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.

Author : Peter DeGrace
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions written by Peter DeGrace and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1990 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M->CREATED

Author : Elisabet Lagerstedt
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9152707954
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Business Better Future written by Elisabet Lagerstedt and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent read for entrepreneurs, corporate business leaders, board members, and strategists aiming to future-proof their business by integrating sustainability into the very core. This book offers a way forward, helps you understand the Sustainability Revolution, and provides valuable insights into the journeys and strategic choices of sustainability trailblazers such as Patagonia, Interface, Ørsted, Unilever, IKEA, Oatly, and others. Because you are not the first company to discover the potential in doing well by doing good, or as William Gibson said: "The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed". Still, many wicked problems urgently need innovative solutions. Solutions that the world of business is particularly well equipped to address through the ingenuity, creativity, collaboration, and resources that it can so often call forth more effectively and efficiently than other human organizations. Here and now, this requires a move beyond business as usual and a transformation into Better Business.

Author : Marcus Kirsch
Publisher : Wicked Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wicked Company written by Marcus Kirsch and published by Wicked Company. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE LIVE IN AN ERA OF WICKED PROBLEMS. Can your company keep up? Technology and the evolution of the experience economy have created a reality that most companies can't just buy or work their way into. These are wicked problems: issues that continue to evolve and morph beyond your solutions even as you form them. The days of tame problems-mass production, building bridges, solving for x-are behind us, but we're still designing companies to solve those tame problems. Marcus Kirsch is here to change all that. Anyone can create a wicked company, but not without implementing ways of working and thinking that are as comprehensive and complex as the problems you're trying to solve. The Wicked Company provides a roadmap to developing a mindset about operations, corporate capability, governance, and the people your organization is made up of that will help you identify, evaluate, and solve wicked problems before they slow you down-and before the other guys have a chance to catch up.

Author : Mohammad Modarres
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351404326
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Every Engineer Should Know about Reliability and Risk Analysis written by Mohammad Modarres and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examining reliability, availability, and risk analysis and reviewing in probability and statistics essential to understanding reliability methods, this outstanding volume describes day-to-day techniques used by practicing engineers -- discussing important reliability aspects of both components and complex systems. "

Author : Purnendu Ghosh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811001197
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind of an Engineer written by Purnendu Ghosh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) promotes the endeavour of the practitioners of engineering and technology and related sciences to solve the problems of national importance. The book is an initiative of the INAE and a reflection of the experiences of some of the Fellows of the INAE in the fields of science, technology and engineering. The book is about the reminiscences, eureka moments, inspirations, challenges and opportunities in the journey the professionals took toward self-realisation and the goals they achieved. The book contains 58 articles on diverse topics that truly reflects the way the meaningful mind of an engineer works.

Author : Joseph Bentley PhD
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480889458
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Wicked Problems written by Joseph Bentley PhD and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Secretary of State George Shultz once drew a distinction between “problems you can solve and problems you can only work at.” These two types of problems have names: They are tame or wicked. Many people believe that their problems are “wicked,” yet few seem to understand what should be done with them. Wicked problems are messy, confusing, unstable, ill-structured, and ambiguous. This book explores the timely issue of wicked problems – what they are and why they are important. The authors open the door to a greater understanding of wicked problems and an appreciation for their complexity, sharing insights and recommendations on how to tackle them to make positive and productive changes in relationships, at home, and at work. Making one’s way successfully through the mess of obstacles and impediments that wicked problems present puts maximum pressure on our capabilities and stretches our tolerance for confusion, conflict, controversy, and chaos. Get guidance on grappling with the wicked problems in your life by increasing your knowledge about what they are and why they are so important to keep working at – even if they can’t be completely resolved.

Author : Kenneth Mikkelsen
Publisher : Lid Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781912555390
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neo-Generalist written by Kenneth Mikkelsen and published by Lid Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of hyper specialism, losing context and our connection to the surrounding region breaks down. The expertise we valued so highly has served to narrow and shorten our vision. It has blinded us to potential and opportunity. This book argues that there is the need and place for both specialist and the generalist. Currently, it feels the balance is tipped too far towards specialism, which results in too much blinkered decision-making. The authors call for people to develop into generalists. These are people who possess both a breadth and depth of skills, knowledge and experience. These are most definitely not 'jack of all trades, masters of none'. Rather, they are people who have the potential, the attitude and the aptitude to specialise in more than one discipline, and are adept at navigating the digital, networked world we inhabit today.