The Next Venue for Systems Engineering

摘要

In the hypercompetitive era customers will not want to buy your products. However, they will pay extra for improvements to their existing system(s). The purpose of this paper is to explain this difference in customer behavior and what it signals regarding expanded career opportunities for systems engineering practitioners. This paper describes hypercompetition, identifies the major stimuli that system engineering practitioners must honor and identifies the resultant capabilities and behaviors required for success. Customers include government, business and civil sector. Capability improvements include ten fold gains in intelligence, cycle times, quality and return on resources. Participation is voluntary but anyone not learning to practice these new types of relationships and behaviors likely will be relegated to the hypocompetition pile.