Blog – Timeinx

Make organisational complexity legible

Organisations rarely struggle because information is missing. The documents exist. The plans exist. Enterprise systems are in place. Risks are sometimes tracked. Teams deliver work. Decisions are made every day. The difficulty lies elsewhere. As work progresses, the relationships between…

Pre-empting Silos in Systems Engineering via the FAIR Principles

The FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) guiding principles originate from the need to make research data discoverable and reusable. Unlike other initiatives that prioritise human scholars, the main intent here is to improve data reusability by focusing on machine…

Complexity: Making the Invisible Visible

The purpose of this article is to recommend a book, for the benefit of the reader (and their organisation) who may not have been aware of it, and hopefully for the collective benefit as well. We generally have an intuitive,…

The Systems Engineering Management Plan and its dual: A unique tool for gaining high-level, systematic, and systemic insights

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In a previous article, I discussed what Systems Engineering (SE) entails – in particular how it differs from Project Management (PM) – and the ways in which SE can benefit you, regardless your business sector. This article sets out the…

What can Systems Engineering offer your business ?

When I ask some people to describe what systems engineering (SE) entails, they often respond : “I don’t know.”, or “It’s about industrial systems or embbeded systems no ?”. The second response suggests that they do not consider systems engineering to be…

What differentiates Timeinx from other solutions like OSLC and MoSSEC?

Timeinx is committed to meeting the challenge of systematising and streamlining systems engineering (or interdepartmental business) operations communication. We achieve this through high-level, systemic communication of structural and representative information generated throughout the course of those operations. To find out…

Ensuring a shared level of information is a difficult task

US$135 million is at risk for every US$1 billion spent on a project. Further research on the importance of effective communications uncovers that a startling 56 percent (US$75 million of that US$135 million) is at risk due to ineffective communications.…