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

by Sidney Dekker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409422216
• ISBN13: 9781409422211
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"