When the System Is an Enterprise: At the Cutting Edge

The world is currently, and always has been, awash in complex problems of education, sustainable energy, health-care delivery, urban resilience, and national security [1]. The complexity of these public-private enterprises is daunting, at least in part because these enterprises are laced with behavioral and social phenomena. The systems community needs to help society address these problems, partly because no one else is willing to stand up to help understand and manage the phenomena associated with these issues [2].