The Organization Mind-Set:
Learning to Think and Act in Terms of Systems
Presented by: Dr. Harold "Bud" Lawson
What if all or the majority of the people in your organization and related enterprises, independent of their personal background and professional role, held a shared view of their business, product, service, and infrastructure system assets? That is they establish a common mind-set and possess knowledge and develop capabilities concerning:
- What systems are
- How systems are structured
- How systems behave and interact
- How to develop and deploy management systems
- How to define and utilize system life cycle processes
- Relationship of data, information and knowledge
- How to improve the decision-making process
- How systems are effectively life cycle managed
- How to organize change management of systems
- How to build a learning organization
The Webinar provides an overview of some of system concepts and paradigms needed to affect the mind-set and is based on paradigms presented in the book "A Journey Through the Systems Landscape" published by College Publications, Kings College, UK
(ISBN 9-781848-900103).
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This Webinar benefits all organization/enterprise personnel since it provides the basis for building a common mind-set across the various organizational business, technical and infrastructure support functions. PERHAPS YOU can be a leader of mind-set changes.
BIOGRAPHY
Harold W. "Bud" Lawson has been active in the computing and systems arena since 1958 and has broad international experience in private and public organizations as well as academic environments. Experienced in many facets of computing and computer-based systems, including systems and software engineering, computer architecture, real-time, programming languages and compilers, operating systems, life-cycle process standards, various application domains as well as computer and systems related education and training.
Received the Bachelor of Science degree from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the PhD degree from the Royal Technical University, Stockholm, Sweden. Contributed to several pioneering efforts in hardware and software technologies at Univac, IBM, Standard Computer Corporation, and Datasaab. Permanent and visiting professorial appointments at several universities including Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, University of California, Irvine, Universidad Politecnica de Barcelona, Linköpings University, Royal Technical University, University of Malaya and Keio University. Currently, Honorary Professor in the Swedish Graduate School of Computer Science and Academic Fellow in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering, ACM Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE European Distinguished Visitor, Member of the ACM Fellows Committee (1997-2001), Founding member of SIGMICRO, EUROMICRO, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, the Swedish National Association for Real-Time (SNART), the Swedish chapters of ENCRESS and INCOSE. Chairman (1999-2000) Technical Committee on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. Head of the Swedish Delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 WG7 (1996-2004) and elected architect of the ISO/IEC 15288 standard.
In 2000, he received the prestigious IEEE Computer Pioneer Charles Babbage medal award for his 1964 invention of the pointer variable concept for programming languages.
Harold Lawson is an independent consultant operating his own company Lawson Konsult AB and is, as well, a consulting partner of Syntell AB, Stockholm.
