Enterprise Dynamics Sourcebook

Chapter 2

From Systems Engineering to Enterprise Systems Engineering

Kenneth C. Hoffman

Contents

2.1 Introduction—Looking Back and Looking Forward

2.1.1 Social

2.1.2 Cognitive

2.1.3 Information

2.1.4 Physical

2.2 Foundations of Systems Engineering

2.3 Evolution of Systems Engineering—Timeline

2.4 Emergence of an Enterprise Systems Perspective—1990s to Present

2.5 Future of Enterprise Systems Engineering, and Some Alphabet Soup—SoSE, CAS

2.6 Conclusion

References

2.1 Introduction—Looking Back and Looking Forward

Looking backward, systems and the enterprises they supported were viewed as relatively independent entities and were treated that way. First, industrial engineers and then systems engineers have been quite successful in dealing with ...