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Enabling Flexibility Through Strategic Management Of Complex Engineering Systems, Walter Louis Barnes Ii
Enabling Flexibility Through Strategic Management Of Complex Engineering Systems, Walter Louis Barnes Ii
Doctoral Dissertations
”Flexibility is a highly desired attribute of many systems operating in changing or uncertain conditions. It is a common theme in complex systems to identify where flexibility is generated within a system and how to model the processes needed to maintain and sustain flexibility. The key research question that is addressed is: how do we create a new definition of workforce flexibility within a human-technology-artificial intelligence environment?
Workforce flexibility is the management of organizational labor capacities and capabilities in operational environments using a broad and diffuse set of tools and approaches to mitigate system imbalances caused by uncertainties or changes. …