The Systems Engineering Podcast

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INCOSE President Ralf Hartmann - Making Systems Engineering Truly Global 07/21/2025

System Science Matters -- ISSS President Gary Smith (International Society for the Systems Sciences) 07/18/2025

The Built Environment Connective - Mark Enzer and Alexandra Bolton - Join the Movement 07/01/2025

Book Insights: "A Journey Through the Systems Landscape" by Harold "Bud" Lawson 12/22/2024

Book Insights: "A Journey Through the Systems Landscape" by Harold "Bud" Lawson 🎁 GET MY FREE PDF SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK BELOW 🎁 Use the link above to get free instant access to my PDF notes on Harold "Bud" Lawson’s “A Journey Through the Systems Landscape”. ====================== 📚 WATCH MY VIDEO SUMMARIES OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 📚 - Playlist: - Best Systems Books: ====================== ☎️ COACHING, CONSULTING & TRAINING ☎️ - Book a Call: - ✉️ NEWSLETTER ✉️ - 🖐️ CONNECT WITH ME 🖐️ - LinkedIn: - - COURSES 🎬️ Scenarios and Making Future Proof Plans: 🎬️ Object Process Methodology (OPM) for MBSE: ====================== 🔗 EPISODE LINKS 🔗 - Book: - Harold ”Bud” Lawson: ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️ 00:00:00 - Opening - Systems thinking vs. Systems acting 00:02:03 - Who is Joshua Sutherland? 00:02:24 - Other videos and resources 00:05:05 - Flicking through the book 00:05:50 - Harold "Bud" Lawson 00:06:27 - 1 - What is the central idea or argument of this book, and why does it matter? 00:10:30 - 2 - Who is the book for? How can YOU apply this to your work? 00:13:11 - 3 - Who was Harold "Bud" Lawson, and what role did he play in shaping systems thinking and systems engineering? 00:14:37 - 4 - How is the book organised? How should I read it? 00:17:56 - 5 - What are the key ideas Lawson presents in his "Introduction to Systems"? 00:28:38 - 6 - What is Lawson's "Systems Survival Kit"? 00:34:48 - 7 - What is Thinking in Systems vs. Acting in Systems? 00:42:04 - 8 - What are some key topics from Systems Thinking? 00:42:55 - 9 - What are some key topics from Acting in Systems? 00:43:57 - 10 - What are the case studies presented in the book? 00:46:30 - 11 - What is the importance of change management to systems? 00:48:11 - 12 - What is Life Cycle Management? 00:49:21 - 13 - Why talk about Data vs. Information vs. Knowledge in a systems book? What is the difference? What about Ontologies and Taxonomies? 00:53:34 - 14 - Organizations and Enterprises as Systems 00:54:52 - 15 - Concluding Thoughts 00:56:19 - Unit X Giveaway 00:57:36 - Other books ====================== 📖 BOOK CITATION 📖 Lawson, Harold W. A journey through the systems landscape. College Publications, 2010. 📖 BOOK DESCRIPTION 📖 Systems are everywhere and affect us daily in our private and professional lives. We all use the word “system” to describe something that is essential but often abstract, complex and even mysterious. However, learning to utilize system concepts as first class objects as well as methodologies for systems thinking and systems engineering provides a basis for removing the mystery and moving towards mastery even for complex systems. This journey through the Systems Landscape has been developed to promote learning to “think” and “act” in terms of systems. A unique aspect is the introduction of concrete system semantics provided as a “system survival kit” and based upon a limited number of concepts and principles as well as a mental model called the system-coupling diagram. This discipline independent presentation assists individuals and is essential for building a learning organization that can utilize a systems approach to achieving its enterprise goals. The eight chapters are presented as stops along a journey that successively build system knowledge. Each chapter terminates with a Knowledge Verification section that provides questions and exercises for individuals and groups. Case studies reflecting the utilization of the system related concepts, principles and methodologies are provided as chapter interludes. /episode/index/show/joshuasutherland/id/34578160

Book Insights: "Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War" by Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff 12/02/2024

Book Insights: "Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War" by Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff 🎁 GET MY FREE PDF SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK BELOW 🎁 Use the link above to get free instant access to my PDF notes on Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff's "Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War". ====================== 📚 WATCH MY VIDEO SUMMARIES OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 📚 - Playlist: - Best Systems Books: ====================== ☎️ COACHING, CONSULTING & TRAINING ☎️ - Book a Call: - ✉️ NEWSLETTER ✉️ - 🖐️ CONNECT WITH ME 🖐️ - LinkedIn: - - COURSES 🎬️ Scenarios and Making Future Proof Plans: 🎬️ Object Process Methodology (OPM) for MBSE: ====================== 🔗 EPISODE LINKS 🔗 - Book: - Raj M. Shah: - Christopher Kirchhoff: ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️ 00:00:00 - Opening 00:13:48 - 1 - What is the central idea or argument of this book, and why does it matter? 00:20:08 - 2 - How is the book organised? How should I read it? 00:33:21 - 3 - What is DIUx, and why was it created? What makes it unique? 00:36:54 - 4 - What are some of the key challenges the U.S. military faces in adopting new technology? 00:41:30 - 5 - How did DIUx overcome resistance from Congress and within the Pentagon? 00:45:58 - 6 - What are some real-world examples of innovations enabled by DIUx? 00:51:04 - 7 - Are there other entities like DIUx in the world? In military or otherwise? 00:55:39 - 8 - What role did key figures, like Ash Carter and Eric Schmidt, play in this story? 01:00:39 - 9 - How do the authors portray the global stakes, particularly regarding China’s advancements? 01:03:12 - 10 - What does the future of warfare look like, according to this book? 01:03:34 - 11 - Ethical Considerations of AI in Warfare 01:04:10 - 12 - What lessons can businesses and governments learn from the DIUx model? 01:07:03 - 13 - Book's Reception and Impact 01:08:46 - 14 - Concluding Thoughts ====================== 📖 BOOK CITATION 📖 Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War Raj M. Shah Christopher Kirchhoff Scribner, 2024. 📖 BOOK DESCRIPTION 📖 A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. /episode/index/show/joshuasutherland/id/34590845