Page 21 - 2025 INCOSE_01-23-2020

The Work Environment 20-21

Global competition drives innovation and enter- The systems engineering workforce of the future
prises. In the face of competition, industry collabo- is geographically dispersed, culturally diverse,
ration, is increasing worldwide, with an emphasis gender agnostic, multi-disciplinary and trans-
on dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams. Collabora- generational.
tive engineering for global product development
via international supply chain partnerships extends A new generation will be rapidly taking the place
the scope of enterprises. Innovation in this com- of retiring engineers as the “Baby Boomer” genera-
petitive environment is driving industry to time- tion matures, requiring a strategy for transitioning
compressed product cycles. knowledge

Business environment

Time-compressed IT-leveraged
product cycles

“Cooperative
Cost-constrained KEY ASPECTS OF
Competition”
THE EVOLVING
Workforce environment SYSTEMS ENGI-
NEERING WORK
ENVIRONMENT
Adapted from the AFIS
Vision
Globally
dispersed
Diverse distributed

The work environment Multi-disciplinary
impacts the way in which
systems engineering is
practiced

Copyright 2014 International Council on Systems Engineering The Global Context • 13