Systems Architecting of Organizations: Why Eagles Can't Swim

by Eberhardt Rechtin

The most difficult questions facing organizations today do not have scientifically or mathematically provable solutions. Many answers that do exist depend upon time and circumstance.

Systems Architecting of Organizations: Why Eagles Can't Swim tackles a very difficult dilemma: how do even highly respected organizations maintain their vaunted excellence, accommodate the new world of global communications, transportation, economics and multinational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849381401
• ISBN13: 9780849381409
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Author comments on the motivations for writing the book

Systems architecting has been shown in two earlier books not only to exist but to be key to successful systems and product lines. Fellow executives asked for a comparable book addressing organizations as systems, which they clearly are, and especially for applicable insights for dealing with the nonquantifiable issues confronting both executives and professionals in a drastically changed international and technological world. Good organizations were failing, disappearing, being merged, consolidating or expanding, succeeding or failing -- for reasons they couldn't fathom. The book shows what,why, how, and when, folowed by insights on how to deal with them. It represents the technical management experience of seven, now retired, chief executives representing 15 major organizations, public and private, military and commercial. To the author's, publisher's and associates' knowledge it is as unprecedented as the dilemmas now faced by executives and professionals today.