2016 MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Reinventing Innovation: A Systems-Based Approach to New Products,
New Services, and a New World
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Back-to-the-Classroom Preconference Seminars
(Additional Fee)
Wong Auditorium, MIT
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Registration |
1:30 – 1:35 p.m. | Welcome and Overview, SDM Back to the Classroom
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1:35 – 2:45 p.m. | Managing System Architecture: Surfacing the Right Decisions
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2:45 – 3:55 p.m. | Nontraditional Applications of Systems Engineering
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3:55 – 4:00 p.m. | Wrap-up
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Panel — How to Scale Your Big Idea in a Complex World: Reinventing Innovation with Systems Thinking
(Free and Open to All — Seating Is Unreserved and Limited)
Wong Auditorium, MIT
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Moderator: Joan S. Rubin, Executive Director (Interim) and Industry Codirector, System Design & Management, MIT Panelists:
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Reinventing Innovation: A Systems-Based Approach to New Products, New Services, and a New World
Wong Auditorium, MIT
7:00 – 8:00 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:00 – 8:15 am | Welcome and Overview
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8:15 – 9:15 am | New Models for Families and Caregivers: A Study of Care.com (Keynote)
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9:15 – 10:15 am | When Is Complex Too Complex? Graph Energy, Proactive Complexity Management, and the First Law of Systems Engineering
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10:15 – 10:30 am | Break |
10:30 – 11:30 am | A Whole Systems Approach to Reinventing Innovation (Keynote)
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11:30 – 12:45 pm | Lunch Morss Hall, Walker Memorial, Building 50, MIT |
12:45 – 1:45 pm | Seeing the Forest and the Trees
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1:45 – 2:00 pm | Break |
2:00 – 3:00 pm | Teamwork in Engineering as a Socio-technical System: Experiments and Analytics for Performance in Complex Projects
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3:00 – 4:00 pm | A Systems-Based Approach to Creating Entrepreneurs and the Ecosystems that Sustain Them
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4:00 – 4:10 pm | Wrap-up and Closing
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4:10 – 5:30 pm | Networking Reception |
6:00 – 9:00 pm | SDM Information Session Morss Hall, Walker Memorial, Building 50, MIT |