Social Enterprise Systems Engineering

Engineering Systems: an Enterprise Perspective

Engineering Context Aware Enterprise Systems

According to Anind Dey[1], context is: “Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of entities (i.e. whether a person, place or object) that are considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves. Context is typically the location, identity and state of people, groups and computational and physical obje...

Countering Social Engineering Through Social Media: An Enterprise Security Perspective

The increasing threat of social engineers targeting social media channels to advance their attack effectiveness on company data has seen many organizations introducing initiatives to better understand these vulnerabilities. This paper examines concerns of social engineering through social media within the enterprise and explores countermeasures undertaken to stem ensuing risk. Also included is ...

The Agile Enterprise: Systems Engineering Agility at the Enterprise Level

Agility is all the rage. Across the landscape, businesses request agility as a deliverable, make claims that they are agile, and (some) go so far as to assert they can provide agility to other corporate entities outside of their own sphere of influence. The challenge before us as a Systems Engineering Community is that (Enterprise) Agility, although well documented throughout engineering litera...

Engineering Enterprise Systems: Challenges and Prospects

The Department of Defense, like other government agencies and indeed the global business community, faces increasingly complex challenges that cannot be met by standalone systems. This has led to growing reliance on increasingly interoperable and interdependent systems that combine multiple organizational and functional capabilities to achieve an overarching mission. This is the motivation for ...