Search -
Outmaneuvering Complexity: Creating Safety by Engineering Resilience (Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering)
Outmaneuvering Complexity Creating Safety by Engineering Resilience - Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering Author:David D. Woods Failure is due to brittle systems, not human error. Systems operate successfully due to sources of resilience, usually hidden or under-appreciated. Ironically, brittleness plagues systems due to new capabilities that increase and hide interdependencies, and therefore complexity is the source of the threats to safety as well as to long-term finan... more »cial viability of organizations. This book uncovers the story of complexity, brittleness and resilience in human systems that perform difficult activities under pressure to be highly productive and ultra-safe. Contrasting cases from many industries - health care, defense, transportation and different episodes of change (eg technology for autonomous vehicles) - show: a)« less