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20 Cards in this Set
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What are you doing if you engineer a system?
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Designing it
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What are you doing if you "re-engineer" a system?
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breakthrough improvement, drastic changes, top down approach: no employee involvement
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What are you doing if you de-engineer a system?
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fixing problems caused by engineers, simplifying because it's been over engineer or over analyzed
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Who wrote Leadership and the New Science?
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Dr. Wheatley
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What is the basic premise of Chaos Theory?
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Structure and order always emerge out of disorder and chaos.
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What is involved in (or characteristics of) a "control as order" approach?
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Top down, consistency, planned and predictable, managed
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What is involved in (or characteristics of) a "chaos as order" approach?
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bottom up, unique, unplanned, leaderful
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What is the idea behind the butterfly effect?
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A small change in one place can ultimately cause a huge change somewhere else. (illustrates system sensitivity)
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What example of the butterfly effect was used in class relating to the recent Tsunami?
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Fresh water well levels in blacksburg were actually effected by the tsunami
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According to chaos theory, what are the three things needed to get the intelligent design of a system?
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Initial values, 3 nonlinear equations, random iterations
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What are you doing if you engineer a system?
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Designing it
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What are you doing if you "re-engineer" a system?
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breakthrough improvement, drastic changes, top down approach: no employee involvement
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What are you doing if you de-engineer a system?
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fixing problems caused by engineers, simplifying because it's been over engineer or over analyzed
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Who wrote Leadership and the New Science?
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Dr. Wheatley
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What is the basic premise of Chaos Theory?
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Structure and order always emerge out of disorder and chaos.
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What is involved in (or characteristics of) a "control as order" approach?
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Top down, consistency, planned and predictable, managed
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What is involved in (or characteristics of) a "chaos as order" approach?
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bottom up, unique, unplanned, leaderful
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What is the idea behind the butterfly effect?
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A small change in one place can ultimately cause a huge change somewhere else. (illustrates system sensitivity)
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What example of the butterfly effect was used in class relating to the recent Tsunami?
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Fresh water well levels in blacksburg were actually effected by the tsunami
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According to chaos theory, what are the three things needed to get the intelligent design of a system?
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Initial values, 3 nonlinear equations, random iterations
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