ABSTRACT
The paper presents an argument based on the assimilation of a number of different projects, all carried out in manufacturing industry, covering engineering governance (Nendick, Hassan et al., 2006; Nendick, Siemieniuch et al., 2006), supply chains (Siemieniuch and Sinclair 1999; Siemieniuch and Sinclair 2000; Siemieniuch and Sinclair 2002), knowledge management (Siemieniuch and Sinclair 1999; Siemieniuch and Sinclair 2004), and organisational preservation (Siemieniuch and Sinclair 2002; Siemieniuch and Sinclair 2003; Siemieniuch and Sinclair 2004), and decision support (Molloy, Siemieniuch et al., 2007; Molloy, Siemieniuch et al., 2008). Aspects of these have been assimilated into a discussion of the effects of complexity, the growth of systems-of-systems, and the role of Human Factors in their long-term survivability (Sinclair 2007). This paper extends this assimilation to include governance, agility, and the importance of wisdom in organisations.
