System Design and Management

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Cosponsored by the MIT School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management, the System Design and Management Program is at the forefront of graduate education at MIT. The SDM curriculum for both is built on a foundation of core courses in system architecture, systems engineering, and system and project management — integrated with management courses tailored to students with significant industry experience and solid technical backgrounds.

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'Could a Shorter Workweek and a Greener Economy Provide ...

'Could a Shorter Workweek and a Greener Economy Provide Relief?'

About the Presentation The crises we encounter today could be described as a 'perfect storm.' The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has left many people with too little money and/or willingness to spend. This results in too few goods and services being ...

2011 SDM Alumni Video

Several SDM alumni share their insight on the impact the System Design and Management has had on their thinking, lives and careers.

A Personalized Trip to the Grocery Store

Technology Review IT editor Erica Naone visits a Stop & Shop in Braintree, Massachusetts, to test Modiv Media's new iPhone app. This lets consumers shop using a smart phone and serves up personalized offers when they do.

A Systems Approach for Addressing the Crisis in Employment ...

A Systems Approach for Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer ...

MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar SeriesNicholas A. Ashford, PhD., JDProfessor of Technology and PolicyDirector, MIT Technology and Law ProgramDate: March 19, 2012 At present, national and global reforms are focused on improving the financial system, which is not ...

A Systems View of Enabling Enterprise Change

A Systems View of Enabling Enterprise Change -- Mark Moran, SDM '09 ...

About the Presentation Enterprise change is hard, especially for mature, successful companies. Many of the keys to accomplishing enterprise change come from seeing the enterprise itself as a complex system. This presentation will discuss many of the ingredients ...

A Virtual Information Evening - MIT SDM

A Virtual Information Evening - MIT System Design and Management Program

A brief introduction into the program focus, and availability for mid-career technical professionals as either on-campus or distance students.

Addressing Complexity in the Interconnected World

How can we manage the financial crisis? How do civil unrest, religion and rumors spread, and how is that related to epidemics and earthquakes? Can human behavior and societal systems be studied in the same way as biological systems and complex man-made systems? In this ...

Applying a Complex System Architecture Evaluation Method to ...

Applying a Complex System Architecture Evaluation Method to the 2005 Ford ...

About the Presentation Through painful experience, many companies have learned that they cannot develop a way out of an architecture issue that is uncovered late in the product development process, such as in the verification (hardware and tooling) stage. If a company ...

Blackford Middleton, MD, "Re-engineering US Health Care ...

Blackford Middleton, MD, "Re-engineering US Health Care with Health Care ...

"Re-engineering US Health Care with Health Care Information Technology - Promises and Peril" is a presentation given by Blackford Middleton, MD, Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development, Partners HealthCare System; Assitant Professor of ...

Blocks + Computing = A new kind of interface

Technology Review IT Editor Erica Naone demonstrates Sifteo's new gaming hardware--interactive blocks that sense their physical orientation and detect each other.

Buying Common: Executing Platform Strategies in Supply ...

Buying Common: Executing Platform Strategies in Supply Chain and ...

This webinar will explore the contract levers available to firms to incentivize commonality in their supply chains, and will discuss best practices for incorporating feedback into product development decisions.

Creative Experimentation (Part 2)

Creative Experimentation: Developing a Skill Critical for Managing Complex ...

A broad-based capacity for experimentation is critical for organizations to succeed because the systems in which people are embedded are increasingly complex and fast.

Webinar: Creative Experimentation

Creative Experimentation: Developing a Skill Critical for Managing Complex ...

A broad-based capacity for experimentation is critical for organizations to succeed because the systems in which people are embedded are increasingly complex and fast.

Deborah Nightingale - "Service Systems Innovation for ...

Deborah Nightingale - "Service Systems Innovation for Treatment of Post ...

"Service Systems Innovation for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome in the U.S. Military: An Enterprise Systems Approach" is a presentation given by Deborah Nightingale, Professor of the Practice of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT' ...

George Apostolakis, Comissioner, US Nuclear Regulatory ...

George Apostolakis, Comissioner, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ...

"Systems Issues in Nuclear Reactor Safety" is the Keynote Presentation given by George Apostolakis, Commissioner, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the MIT System Design and Management's 2010 Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges Conference on October 21, ...

How Self-Organizing "Tribes" are Transforming the Solar ...

How Self-Organizing "Tribes" are Transforming the Solar Industry - Donny ...

About the Presentation This webinar will offer an interdisciplinary perspective on solar innovation in the United States by examining over 100 case studies. It will use these research findings to describe how self-organizing groups, or "tribes," have become a driving ...

Identifying Architectural Modularity in the Smart Grid - ...

Identifying Architectural Modularity in the Smart Grid - Brad Rogers, ...

About the Presentation One significant challenge facing a broader deployment of modern grid technologies is integrating with legacy systems while driving toward elegant, interoperable solutions in future grid integration efforts. This challenge is compounded by the de ...

Information Evening Invitation - MIT System Design and ...

Information Evening Invitation - MIT System Design and Management Program, ...

This is your invitation to come and informally explore the MIT System Design and Management Program, a program designed to help mid-career professionals develop a systems thinking approach to solving complex challenges. Come meet faculty, students and alumni at the ...

Inventory Productivity

Inventory Productivity: Missing Link Between Supply Chain Management and ...

Inventory productivity, the return on invested capital in your inventory, is the single systems measure that links these two cornerstone functions.

Investigations of Platform Savings Reveal Systemic ...

Investigations of Platform Savings Reveal Systemic Management Challenges - ...

About the Presentation Companies from aerospace to white goods use platforming strategies to deliver more variety to their customers while saving internally by sharing parts and overhead. However, many firms fail to earn a return on their investment in ...

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