Inventing Complex, Intelligent, Strategic Systems (CISS) - ALVIS-SCAN thinking for the Sixth Wave of Innovation
Navneet Bhushan
We
define a new class of systems and products named Complex Intelligent
Strategic Systems (CISS). We propose that these systems are emerging in
the Sixth Wave of Innovation (years 2015-2045). We evolve the formal
definition of a system described in TRIZ and in Hubka’s Theory of
Technical Systems, to include technical systems with a “mind” of their
own. This also maps to the 10th Law of TRIZ proposed in 2012 –
the Law of Increasing Intelligence of Technical Systems. The challenges
of discovering, defining, describing, designing, developing, deploying,
and deducing (7Ds) the CISS require a complete relook of their
lifecycle. Besides the advent of cyber-physical systems, increasing
intelligence of technical systems, the massive scale of these systems
coupled with strategic nature of many of these systems leads to
unprecedented challenges.
These
systems are characterized by substantial decentralization, higher
embedded/ambient algorithmic intelligence, inherently conflicting,
unknowable and diverse needs/requirements, continuous
evolution/deployment/learning, heterogeneous, inconsistent, and changing
elements, erosion of people/system boundary, regular failures and new
paradigms regeneration of parts of the system. Key aspects for 7Ds of
CISS lifecycle i.e., Value, Inventiveness, Human Interaction,
Computational Emergence, multi-level Design, Computational Engineering,
Adaptive System Infrastructure, Adaptable and Predictable System
Quality, Policy, Acquisition and Management are explained. Nine thinking
dimensions proposed for CISS are Analytical, Logical, Value, Inventive,
and Systems thinking (ALVIS) and Scale, Computational, Algorithmic and
Network (SCAN) thinking. These thinking dimensions need to play a much
larger part in an integrated manner than the current mostly analytical,
logical and analogical thinking. We describe few case studies in ALVIS-SCAN thinking and describe ALVIS-SCAN thinking framework for 7Ds of CISS.
The TRIZCON 2020 was held online - a Virtual conference. The abstracts of all talks are published at AITRIZ site
https://www.aitriz.org/trizcon2020/abstracts-papers
Some Slides from my presentation
System Classification FrameworkComplex Intelligent Strategic Systems
Law of Increasing Intelligence of Technical Systems
Function Model for CISS (Sixth wave of Innovation )