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The New Engineering Game

By : Tim Weilkiens
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The New Engineering Game

By: Tim Weilkiens

Overview of this book

Organizations today face an increasingly complex and dynamic environment, whatever their market. This change requires new systems that are built on the foundation of a new kind of engineering and thinking. The New Engineering Game closes the gap between high-level reflections about digitalization and daily engineering methods and tools. The book begins by describing the first three industrial revolutions and their consequences, and by predicting the fourth industrial revolution. Considering the fourth industrial revolution, it explains the need for a new kind of engineering. The later chapters of the book provide valuable principles, patterns, methods, and tools that engineering organizations can learn and use to succeed on the playfield of digitalization. By the end of the book, you’ll have all the information you need to understand the various concepts to take your first steps towards the world of digitalization.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Globalization

Globalization has been a megatrend over the last 15 years. The term refers to global communication between peoples, the exchange of products, and a variety of views, including culture, politics, general ideas, and more besides. The enablers of globalization are the transportation and communication networks. In the past, other eras also got the label globalization; for example,The Second Industrial Revolution, in Chapter 2, The Industrial Revolutions. The internet has been giving impetus to globalization since the 1990s. That was the era that changed the rules and the playing field of the engineering disciplines.

There is no single universal definition of the term globalization. Some people say that it is not possible to define it. The paper Definitions of Globalization: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed Definition, by Dr. Al-Rhodan and Gérard Stoudmann (Dr. Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Gérard Stoudmann. Definitions of Globalization: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed...