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Systems Engineering Standards to Help Manage Complexity

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Bernard Markowicz

Back in 2009, an IEEE Spectrum article noted that the avionics system of the U.S. F-22 Raptor jet fighter launched in 1995 consists of about 1.7 million lines of software code. Today, premium cars like the Mercedes-Benz S-class depend on … Continue reading →

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Three skills for dealing with complexity

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Bernard Markowicz

Our World has generally become more complex, in part because of the many linkages and relationships between elements that make it a lot harder to figure out how things work and where they are going.  Let’s take the stock market … Continue reading →

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Perry, Obama, and Political Volatility

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Bernard Markowicz

In my last post [Does Complexity Breed Volatility?], I briefly talked about how complexity makes it increasingly difficult for investors to evaluate the impacts of incoming news, especially “big” news, on their investments.  The result is that everyone sells with everyone else, … Continue reading →

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Does Complexity Breed Volatility?

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Bernard Markowicz

We have now become familiar with the VIX, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, thanks to the wild stock market volatility that has graced our television screens in the last few weeks.  Investors process incoming political and economic … Continue reading →

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