A large amount of rhetoric has been given to “open systems” in recent years. The terms “open” and “openness” regularly appear in vendor sales-pitches world-wide. Large government development contracts are now beginning to identify openness as a primary requirement. Innovation Science pioneered the evaluation of large-scale complex systems in terms of openness and evolvability. Our methodology has been applied to complex systems around the world and can easily identify risks to achieving an open system. Continue reading “Open Systems Assessments”
