Through the H-SEIF projects, our goal has been to maintain a close dialogue with the Systems Engineering environment at USN and their partners. It is important for us to explore SOD in the context of technically complex projects, and through the project, we have gained deeper insights into several relevant projects. Furthermore, we have also tested much of our mindset and working methodology through workshops where both USN and industry participants have been involved.
We have utilized SOD’s practical and design-oriented approach, with a particular focus on Gigamapping and its effect in interdisciplinary technically advanced workshops. We have looked at meta-functions around our processes and specifically studied how “Jumping Conversations” have been perceived as useful through a design-oriented approach. This has been done both in joint workshops and in conversations and collaborations with industrial partners.
This has been an inspiration for the group and has contributed to an SOD executive master’s student from KM incorporating some of our methodology, ZIP analyses, into hyper-complex issues.
We have maintained and strengthened the collaboration between AHO and USN. We have gained deeper insights into many complex engineering projects, as well as contact with USN students.
Through collaboration with the industry, we have confirmed that SOD will be a useful subject in early-phase innovation, and we have received many ideas for further research on how SOD can help capture and conceptualize BIG data that may seem inaccessible because it mostly arises and exists in the relationship between experts.
We wish to work closely with the Systems Engineering environment at USN going forward and will through this further develop SOD, but also influence Systems Engineering to look even more at how design, and especially SOD, can contribute.