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Systems Architecture: Strategy and Product Development for Complex Systems 1st Edition
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Architecture and Function of Complex Systems
System architecture is the study of early decision making in complex systems. This text teaches how to capture experience and analysis about early system decisions, and how to choose architectures that meet stakeholder needs, integrate easily, and evolve flexibly. With case studies written by leading practitioners, from hybrid cars to communications networks to aircraft, this text showcases the science and art of system architecture.- ISBN-109780133975345
- ISBN-13978-0133975345
- Edition1st
- PublisherPearson
- Publication dateApril 15, 2015
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.9 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
- Print length480 pages
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Bruce G. Cameron is the founder of Technology Strategy Partners (TSP), a consulting firm, and the Director of the System Architecture Lab at MIT. He has worked with 60 Fortune 500 firms across aerospace, high tech, and consumer goods, and has built hardware currently on orbit.
Daniel Selva is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. He has pioneered the use of machine learning tools in system architecture analysis, and is the recipient of Best Paper and Hottest Article awards for his work with NASA.
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- ASIN : 0133975347
- Publisher : Pearson; 1st edition (April 15, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 480 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780133975345
- ISBN-13 : 978-0133975345
- Item Weight : 1.7 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.9 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,109,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #122 in Industrial Engineering (Books)
- #2,463 in Industrial Manufacturing Systems
- #4,383 in Computer Science (Books)
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Bruce Cameron is the Director of the System Architecture Group at MIT. His research examines whether firms make good decisions on new products, and how complex technical products are managed. Dr. Cameron has directed research projects for Amazon, Amgen, BP, Dell, Hyundai, Meta, NASA, Sikorsky, Stryker, and Verizon.
His work has looked at how firms chose to develop battery-only EVs compared with hybrid EVs , how startups disrupted incumbents in the satellite communications market, and how digital platforms such as Uber and Apple’s App Store retain customer loyalty. His book System Architecture : Strategy and Product Development for Complex Systems has been translated into Japanese and Chinese and is used by thousands of practitioners.
Dr. Cameron teaches courses at MIT on management, system architecture, product platforms, and digital platforms. Dr. Cameron is the Faculty Director for MIT’s Architecture and System Engineering online certificate, which has 13,000 alumni. Dr. Cameron’s teaching in Sloan Executive Education has been tied for the highest rated Executive Education program at MIT. He is a past recipient of MIT’s Teaching with Digital Technology Award.
Dr. Cameron was a co-founder of Technology Strategy Partners in 2011, a consultancy that helps firms restructure product development organizations, which has operated on three continents. He has been a board member or advisor to 30 startups spanning consumer and industrial products, and is a past board member of the University of Toronto.
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Customers find the book useful for beginners in learning OPM. They appreciate the simple systems and explanations that are easy to understand. However, opinions differ on comprehension - some find the detailed explanations helpful, while others consider them tedious and difficult to understand.
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Customers find the book good for beginners. It starts with simple systems anyone can understand and explains various concepts from what OPM is. They find it interesting and informative, covering topics like creativity and system complexity.
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Customers have different views on the book's comprehension. Some find the detailed explanations helpful and appreciate the clear coverage of topics like creativity and system complexity. Others feel the tasks are tedious and difficult to understand.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2017This was a required book for a class in my Systems Engineering masters courses. I didn't care for the course much, but this book was amazing. It starts off with simple systems anyone can understand and explains the various concepts from what is a system to a system architecture's role within a company compared to his role in the project.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2019Very readable, good textbook format. That said the text book problems are more complex than the samples they provide in chapter.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2015Very interesting and informative. I'm only partially into the book at this time. I did take the MIT class from Ed Crawley and have found many new insights.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2017It is a great complement for the MIT class. Most of the information of the class is in here. I would recommend the book to anyone not able to take the whole certificate.
I was thinking the size of the book was as any typical engineering book, but this one is smaller, so reading it entirely is doable
- Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020Great material. Thanks Bruce Cameron.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017Excellent if you're coming from an engineering background but still organized enough that engineering background is not required.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2017Great book and it is a must-read for network architects and system engineers.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018Essential Systems Engineering book
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- jordan krasimirovReviewed in Germany on May 31, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Reflects the MIT Systems Engineering professional program toa big extend
My rating is actually between 4 and 5 stars, I was wondering which rating to give, but was in a good mood, so - 5 stars. But it is about 4.5 actually!
The book is from some of the authors of the quite successful MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) professional certification program in "Architecture and Systems Engineering". Obviously, developing a learning program is not an easy job, and logically it is done only once and used as a structure in both the certification program and the book. The book is recommended in the beginning of the program and I can only echo it - if you already paid the price of the program, get the book in the beginning (and not in the last course, as I did).
Now about the content. I tend to always compare the content of the MIT program with the book, and surprisingly, I have found that the program provides on some points MORE than the book - DSM for example. The topic exists in the book, but it was much more discussed in the course. So shortly - with the course you will learn more than from the book alone. If you have the book without doing the MIT program, it is still quite good, but consider that you need to do some additional search of information from other sources, as soon you touch some of the topics. I don't have other systems architecture books to be able to compare with, but consider that the content is of very different nature, compared with some openly available handbooks for the topic (like "NASA Systems Engineering Workbook" or "MITRE Systems Engineering Guide"). The book is not an instruction, process definition or guideline - it is a pure educational book.
The book as a physical object (the one with price of ~62EUR in the moment) looks a little cheap for this price. Not bad, but I feel it somehow fragile and I open it veeery carefully :) I know that the professional literature is quite expensive because of the content, but still I was expecting something more robust. There are also editions for 2x the price, I don't know how they are in terms of book feeling. Another strange thing for me is that the electronic version of the book is almost twice the price of this book. Is it the content different? No idea.
Overall : if you need a strong introduction of systems architecture and engineering, this is an easy to assimilate material from a very respected institution. It is also quite up-to-date (both the MIT certification program and the book are dated 2016), so also already proficient systems engineers could get something out of it. The systems engineering in general is quite new discipline academically seen. But as activity is as old as multi-discipline engineering is. Most of the practicing systems engineers are actually educated as experts in one discipline and have systems thinking out of the practice and experience. More formalized and structured education in this direction is more and more needed and the book here is a very good source of such. If you can afford the professional program of systems engineering of MIT or another good university - I highly recommend to do it.
2 people found this helpfulReport - AbhilashReviewed in India on May 21, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Love the book. Also did the Course from MIT. Great work and amazing clarity.