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Paperback Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems Book

ISBN: 1409422216

ISBN13: 9781409422211

Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

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What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale...

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