British Computer Society

The British Computer Society (BCS) is the only Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Systems Engineering. With over 38,000 members world-wide, the BCS is the leading professional and learned Society in the field of computers and information systems.

Institution of Electrical Engineers

Founded in 1871, IEE is the largest professional engineering society in Europe and has a worldwide membership of just under 140,000.

International Council On Systems Engineering

The International Council on Systems Engineering is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1990. INCOSE is an international authoritative body promoting the application of an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems.

International Council On Systems Engineering:
UK Chapter

At present there are about 200 members, having started with 50 at the inaugural event in September 1994. Members come from diverse backgrounds covering purchasers, system developers and academics. Industries represented include aerospace, defence, transportation, construction and telecommunications. A goal for the UK Chapter is to achieve a steady and sustained increase in the number of members, and to further broaden the base of that membership to include new industries. If you undertake tasks which are characterised by the interaction of multiple factors across multiple domains, often exhibiting less obvious behaviour, you're either doing or need to be doing some systems engineering, and INCOSE exists to help you.

Association of Project Management

The Association is fast growing and committed to an energetic programme of activities to help Project Managers and others involved or interested in Project Management to progress their professional careers and to further develop professionalism in Project Management.

United Kingdom System Society

The United Kingdom Systems Society is a non-profit making professional society committed to the development and promotion of 'systems' philosophy, theory, models, concepts and methodologies for improving decision-making and problem-solving for the benefit of organisations and the wider society.

System Dynamics Society

The System Dynamics Society is an international, nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of system dynamics around the world. It is run solely on a volunteer basis by practitioners of system dynamics in academics and industry. With members in over 35 countries, the Society provides a forum in which researchers can keep up-to-date with applications, methodologies, and tools.

System dynamics is a methodology for studying and managing complex feedback systems, such as one finds in business and other social systems. In fact it has been used to address practically every sort of feedback system. While the word system has been applied to all sorts of situations, feedback is the differentiating descriptor here. Feedback refers to the situation of X affecting Y and Y in turn affecting X perhaps through a chain of causes and effects. One cannot study the link between X and Y and, independently, the link between Y and X and predict how the system will behave. Only the study of the whole system as a feedback system will lead to correct results.

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