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Drift into failure: from hunting broken components to understanding complex systems

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What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner?s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia?

These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale.

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Ashgate
1351942921 / 9781351942928
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
302.35
05/12/2016
English
211 pages
Copy: 30%; print: 30%