Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience

David Lowe; Philip Oliver; Gerald Midgley; Mike Yearworth

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_53

Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience

David Lowe^*, Philip Oliver, Gerald Midgley, Mike Yearworth

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In 2014, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory developed and implemented a novel approach to assess the system by which the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence delivers infrastructure projects and services. This approach brought together existing methods to constitute a hybrid problem structuring method that offered the potential to trigger anticipatory intervention by focusing on the health as opposed to the performance of this system. This paper revisits the initial assessment to examine whether use of the method has led to increased system resilience, and in particular to understand what it was about the method that helped to deliver benefits. Insights with regard to the structures and processes necessary to enable anticipatory action for resilience are presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Pages	765-776
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319622170
ISBN (Print)	9783319622163
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_53
Publication status	Published - 24 Nov 2017

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Anticipatory systems
Resilience
System health monitoring
Systems thinking

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