Practical Creativity and Innovation in Systems Engineering

Index

a

• Accommodating behaviour 192
• Acquisition process 20, 232
• Adopting entrepreneurial attitude 289–290
• Advancing gendered innovation 298
• Agreement processes 20–21
• Aim of this book 1
• All Aboard gendered innovation project 305–306
• AMISA–endnote 442–443
• Anticipatory failure determination 184–191
• The approach (case study) 332–334
• Architecting systems for adaptability 341–342
• Architecture
  • adaptability value 412–414
  • definition process 34–36
• Architecture options example
  • step 1–step 13 417–441
• Architecture options (AO) theory
  • architecture adaptability value 412–413
  • design structure matrix 413–414
  • dynamic system value modeling 414–417
  • financial/engineering options 408–410
  • transaction cost/interface cost 410–411
• Ascent to innovation‐practical steps 271–274
• Asking fundamental questions 64
• Assessing the project (AMISA) 400–401, 405–408
• Assessment and control process 26–27
• Assumptions
  • definition 64
  • embodied in this book 11
  • and justifications (case study) 344–345
  • recognizing and controlling 64–65
• Atoms and ions example (plasma arc cutting) 219
• Avoiding behavior 193

b

• Bargain costs 411
• Basic premise of this book 1
• Biomimicry engineering 76–79
• Black hat–logical‐negative 93
• Black–Scholes model 409, 426
• Blue hat–manage and control mode 93, 94
• Book’s overall structure 3
• Breadth of innovation 241–242
• Breaking the rules 65
• Broadening perspectives 66
• Business or mission analysis process 32
• Business process innovations 226

c

• Capability maturity models (CMM) 246
• Cardiac pacemaker  ...