Calendar
Below is the Calendar showing Chapter events, Working and Local Group events, as well as International Events.
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The Special Theory of Holes: A Systems Thinking methodology applied to the exercise of power
Railway Interest Group
Room C308, Tait Building City, University of London Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB
1700 for 1730 to 1830
Civic Resilience - A Systems Problem?
North West
Electricity North West, Hartington Road, Preston, PR1 8AF
18:30 - 20:30
Meeting
South Coast Local Group
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Current Events
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09/05/2017 - 09/05/2017 |
South Coast Local Group |
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10/05/2017 - 10/05/2017 18:30 - 20:30 |
North West Electricity North West, Hartington Road, Preston, PR1 8AF |
![]() Civic Resilience - A Systems Problem? At 2245 on Saturday 5th December 2015, the primary substation in Lancaster was inundated with flood water from the River Lune following heavy rain as part of Storm Desmond, cutting power supplies to 61,000 properties. Managing the effect of the extreme weather was an operational challenge for Electricity North West, but what was more notable was severe the impact the loss of supplies had on other services across the the city, highlighting the reliance of modern society on a reliable electricity supply. Since a series of recent floods, resilience has become a hot topic within the utilities sector, and in 2014 BSI published BS 65000 on Organisation Resilience. The Rockefellar Institute have also developed the 100 Resilient Cities programme (of which Bristol and Glasgow are a part) to look at how a city become resilient to a range of challenges. Do system engineers have a role to play in developing civic resilience, and how could systems engineering techniques be used to enable communities, towns and cities to respond to major shock, natural or otherwise? This session will start with a some scene-setting, but then open up into an extended discussion-come-workshop to share ideas on what resilience means from a systems perspective, and how this can be applied to a community, town or city. There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
17/05/2017 - 17/05/2017 1700 for 1730 to 1830 |
Railway Interest Group Room C308, Tait Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB |
![]() The Special Theory of Holes:
A Systems Thinking methodology applied
to the exercise of power Register via EventbriteKindly hosted by![]() Systems and Control Research Centre City, University of London
BioAfter starting his career as a train driver, Scott Meadows moved into operations and performance at Network Rail where he worked with cross-industry groups to improve the industry’s safety and reliability performance. He is currently a principal consultant at Altran, working on the Programme and Systems Integration team for the Thameslink programme. Drawing on the doctoral research he started at Leeds University at the Institute of Transport Studies, he has written a systems model of power based on his experiences in the UK Railway Industry. SynopsisPower is like gravity and electricity. We know it exists through its effects; we often however, explore its consequences rather than the medium itself. We all work in or for organisations where the perception of power is distributed among many actors and, when we get that distribution wrong, the effects are adverse. How do we explore power, its nature and basis, then? Can we use systems thinking to understand the power environment and to predict and prevent problems that may arise from the perception of power distributions? The answer is yes: through system dynamic modelling. Here we can start to model our power environment, explored through three recognised faces of power, how power is developed and exercised. But we can also add a fourth face of power, in terms of system feedback, an element that is often overlooked. This is the Special Theory of Holes. It is a systems dynamic model of the exercise of power, taking the inputs to ‘A’ who exercises (Overt, Covert and Latent power), over ‘B’, who has power exercised over them, to achieve something, classed as an output. However nothing exists in isolation. ‘B’ sometimes responds in ways we don’t account for or fully understand: this is their feedback to the system of power exercised by A. If we want to improve working conditions and the efficiency and efficacy of our organisations, dismissing system feedback can be costly. It is here where modelling the power environment can help us understand the exercise of power in play, and identify if it is reducing our overall capability.
Scott hopes that the presentation will offer systems thinkers a vision of how they may be able to use their skills to deal with problems at work that they previously thought that systems thinking could not reach. Register via Eventbrite |
Future Events
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05/06/2017 - 05/06/2017 10:30 - 14:30 |
Service Systems Engineering Rolls-Royce plc Whittle House WH73 PO Box 3, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7QE, UK Sat nav postcode - BS34 6QA |
![]() SSE Meeting 25 To review work on Service Definition for Military Vehicles and comparison with other work of the group. |
07/06/2017 - 07/06/2017 Full Day |
UK Chapter Engineers House
The Promenade, Clifton Down, Avon, Bristol BS8 3NB
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![]() 2017 Training Day INCOSE UK is offering six one day courses for the 2017 Training Day. All of these provide an opportunity to update or extend your Systems Engineering (SE) skills, under the guidance of acknowledged experts in the application of SE.
For more information about the event please click here. |
07/06/2017 - 07/06/2017 10:00 till 13:00 |
UK Chapter Engineers House The Promenade, Clifton Down, Avon, Bristol BS8 3NB |
![]() SEP Examination Running in conjunction with our Training Day this year will offer the opportunity for any current or potential SEP programme candidates to sit their examination on-site at Engineers' House. The exam will run from 10:00 - 13:00.
For more information click here |
15/06/2017 - 15/06/2017 17:00 for 17:30 to 18:30 |
Railway Interest Group RSSB (Royal Scott room, 4th Floor)
The Helicon
1 South Place
London
EC2M 2RB |
![]() Getting the most out of innovation with a systems approach and an open mind There is currently a whirlwind of excitement and anticipation around innovation related to intelligent infrastructure, internet of things and smart cities. Much of this is technology-led and predicated on ‘more data equals more benefit’. Whilst an element of this future is reliant on more open and shared data, other fundamental keys to unlock benefits quickly reside in vision, outcomes and business models. In this presentation, Rakesh Gaur of Transport for London explores how the skills to resolving these parameters are positively aligned to those who can apply a whole systems engineering approach; focusing on key requirements, understanding trade-offs, managing risk and knowing how to deal with the unintended. He will describe how the Transport for London approach blends both challenge and vision-led innovation and explores the potential consequences when a systems approach is not followed. |
22/06/2017 - 22/06/2017 10:00 till 16:00 |
UKAB QinetiQ, Farnborough |
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29/06/2017 - 29/06/2017 19:00hrs |
South Coast Local Group QinetiQ, Portsdown Technology Park Portsmouth PO6 3RU |
![]() Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering - Same but Different? Presenter: Niki Jobson
Presentation title: Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering - Same but Different?
Presentation synopsis: The presentation will explore the role of systems thinking (ST) in developing a shared understanding of a complex, dynamic, multi-stakeholder problem space and characterising the nature of the challenges in order to provide a firm foundation for solution development. It will seek to tease out the similarities and differences of applying ST during problem understanding and system engineering, and will provide a high level overview of underpinning ST concepts, laws, methods and tools and an emerging competency framework. There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
17/07/2017 - 20/07/2017 Full Days |
International Adelaide, Australia |
![]() INCOSE International Symposium 2017 'Unlocking Innovation through Systems Engineering'
INCOSE’s Annual International Symposium is the largest worldwide annual gathering of people who do systems engineering for six days of presentations, case studies, workshops, tutorials and panel discussions. The program attracts an international mix of professionals at all levels, and includes practitioners in government and industry, as well as educators and researchers. The benefits of attending the Symposium include: the opportunity to share ideas; network; build competency; pursue certification; contribute to the advancement of the profession through collaboration on tools, processes and methodologies; learn about new offerings in training and education; and forge new partnerships.
For more information click here |
18/07/2017 - 18/07/2017 10:00 till 16:00 |
UKAB TBC |
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11/09/2017 - 11/09/2017 10:30 - 14:30 |
Service Systems Engineering Service Systems Engineering
Rolls-Royce plc Whittle House WH73 PO Box 3, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7QE, UK Sat nav postcode - BS34 6QA |
![]() Meeting 26 Reports on: - SeBOK and Systems Engineering Handbook relatig to Services - Proposed skeleton for service engineering handbook - Review of standard stakeholders for Systems - do they apply for Services Way forward to issuing guidance |
18/09/2017 - 18/09/2017 1745H-1930H |
Railway Interest Group London Underground
55 Broadway
London SW1H 0BD |
![]() Operational Concept to Working Railway: Developing an effective collaboration between operators and engineers on a major railway upgrade project
Effectively engaging operations personnel in the very earliest stage of railway projects is essential if we are to avoid extensive rework or having to live with operational workarounds for sub-optimal decisions at the beginning. Michael Coultharde-Steer, Lead Operational Development Manager at LU, will describe how and where significant benefits accrue from involving Operational input in the context of major upgrade programmes and how User Requirements Specifications are derived by a small team that includes operational end-user representatives and LU’s system engineers. For further details pleasee see attached flyer. The presentation is being arranged by the South East Branch of the Institution of Railway Operators (IRO) in collaboration with the INCOSE UK Railway Interest Group. There is no charge for attendance and the event is open to those who are not INCOSE or IRO members but places must be booked in advance. BOOKING FOR THIS EVENT IS VIA THE IRO. Please book by emailing se.comms@railwayoperators.co.uk. To ask any other questions, please contact the RIG Chair, Bruce Elliott at bruce.elliott@altran.com or on +44 (0)7970 694043. There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
Past Events
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27/04/2017 - 27/04/2017 09:30 - 16:00 |
Model Based Systems Engineering Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, Oxfordshire |
![]() MBSE Interest Group Meeting - 27th April 2017
This is a regualar meeting of the MBSE Interest Group and will include (subject to availability) presentations from Changan UK (automotive), Jaguar Land Rover (automotive), UKAEA (power generation) and possibly a tour of some of the facilities at Culham. Attendees must pre-regesiter to attend and will require photographic id to gain access to the site. Registration closes on 17 April 2017. Location details can be found here and public transport details here
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26/04/2017 - 26/04/2017 18:00 |
Midlands Local Group Loughborough University (Room TBC) |
![]() Global Strategic Trends - Paul Norman, Futures Team, DCDC, Shrivenham
The need for the MOD to set out the future strategic context was articulated in the 1998 Strategic Defence Review. To meet that requirement, the Strategic Trends Programme was started in 2001 and the first edition of Global Strategic Trends (GST) was published in 2003. Subsequently, GST, along with the Future Operating Environment have been key elements of the MOD’s contribution to both the National Security Strategy and the Strategic Defence and Security Review – and we expect them to play similar roles in the future.
Paul Norman
Paul currently works for the Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre as the Technology lead for the strategic trends program. He received aMaster of Physics degree from the University of Manchester in 2000. After graduating he worked in the finance industry where he was promoted to the head of the offer and completions department within Alliance and Leicester. In 2003 Paul decided to change career and began working for the Defence Ordnance Safety Group where he worked as a numerical modeller and explosive effects scientist. In 2009 Paul studied for a Masters Degree in Explosive Ordnance Engineering at the Defence Academy. After graduation Paul decided to stay at the Defence Academy where he now works within the Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre.
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24/04/2017 - 24/04/2017 18:30 for 19:00, till 21:00 |
Bristol Local Group Atkins
The Hub
500 Park Avenue Aztec West
Bristol
BS32 4RZ |
![]() Embracing Complexity: Adaptive management in a volatile and complex
world Jean will describe what it means to say the world is complex and explore what that implies for managing organisations and projects, and how to balance the tensions between efficiency and adapting, between standardisation and customisation.
Jean, lead author of Embracing Complexity is a strategy and organisation consultant and academic. She was Head of Engineering Operations for BAe Commercial Aircraft (1989-92), and she has been chair and non-executive director of a number of other organisations, and has consulted many blue chip companies and charities. Her background in theoretical physics coupled with her practical engagement in the fields of management and social research give her a multi-faceted, informed and practical perspective on the implications of embracing complexity and managing in a volatile, uncertain and complex world. For more about Jean’s excellent book see: We welcome everyone to our events and always appreciate help with promoting them. If you are able to, why not print off a copy of the attached flyer and put it up on your staff noticeboard, or forward this email to colleagues and friends you think might enjoy the talk.
As ever, this Bristol Local Group talk is open to INCOSE members and non-members alike. We look forward to welcoming you. There are 2 Documents for this event, click here to view |
05/04/2017 - 05/04/2017 1700 for 1730 to 1830 |
Railway Interest Group Network Rail, One Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN |
![]() How not to do Requirements Management with Civil Engineers Register via EventbriteThe application of requirements management to civil engineering-led, rail related, multi-disciplinary design and build projects has had varied success in recent years. Key UK Rail clients have their own requirements management processes and the challenge for designers has been to find the right processes to facilitate demonstrating compliance of design, for more than 10 different disciplines, with swift approvals, fixed construction deadlines and without introducing significant addition cost.
In this presentation, Anne Bearne of Arup shares her experiences in delivering requirements management which meets the needs of client, and project managers and which design teams can efficiently embed within their design processes and outputs. This entails a tailoring of requirements management processes to respond to the way in which railway projects, and in particular largely civils based railway projects, are delivered. Register via Eventbrite |
05/04/2017 - 05/04/2017 10:00 till 16:00 |
UKAB IBM, Hursley House |
![]() Joint Meeting of the INCOSE UK Council and UKAB |
27/03/2017 - 27/03/2017 11:30 - 15:30 |
Service Systems Engineering Babcock International, Devonport House, Durley Park, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2AT |
![]() Meeting 24 Workshop to develop framework that covers/relates major aspects: lifecycle, process, artefacts, stakeholders, lines of development etc. |
23/03/2017 - 23/03/2017 |
South Coast Local Group |
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21/03/2017 - 21/03/2017 1700 for 1730 to 1830 |
Railway Interest Group Atkins, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3AT |
![]() Innovation in Infrastructure: the railway as a socio-technical system Click here to register via EventbriteThe railway system is continually developing and changing. In long-established infrastructure systems, like the railway system of Great Britain, development is often complex. Innovation in these systems is both important and difficult to understand; it comes in many forms and through many different routes. This presentation is on research into how mature infrastructure systems develop and change; using social science theories on socio-technical systems the case of Great Britain’s railway system is examined. Privatisation of this system, initiated outside the railway system, has led to a series of different organisational arrangements directing system operation and development over a relatively short period. Examining these developments using socio-technical systems theories highlights ways in which innovation can be, deliberately and unintentionally, shaped and it shows connections between the social and the technical forces in play. Reflecting on privatisation and its aftermath can provide lessons for directing future development in the railway system. Improved understanding of processes around system development can be valuable to both practitioners and policymakers concerned with generating, or responding to, innovation. Dr Kat Lovell is a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex. Having trained in Engineering, Kat began her work on railways as part of a project on railway systems within the Rail Research UK consortium. This work inspired her PhD in Innovation Studies at Imperial College Business School researching the case of privatisation of Great Britain’s railway network. Kat’s research at SPRU is part of two interdisciplinary and interuniversity projects on UK infrastructure: International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF) where Kat’s work looks at business models for infrastructure development and ITRC-MISTRAL (Multi-scale Infrastructure Systems Analytics) researching infrastructure governance and development at different scales. Kat’s research focuses on infrastructure systems and how they change and for the future she is working with SPRU colleagues to develop ideas around inclusive infrastructure. Click here to register via Eventbrite |
16/03/2017 - 16/03/2017 18:00 |
Midlands Local Group Loughborough University (Room TBC) |
![]() Presentation from Dr. Dan Slipper, MIRA To follow |
13/03/2017 - 13/03/2017 18:30 for 19:00, till 21:00 |
Bristol Local Group Room 1.15 Queens Building, University Walk, Bristol. BS8 1UB |
![]() Systems Research Showcase There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |