Industrial and Systems Engineering
Perspectives and Dimensions for Industrial and
Systems Engineering
Business Driven Development for Industries
What are the tasks Industrial Engineers do on some of our IBM teams
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What industries do we participate in?
Federal and Local Government
Industrial and Manufacturing
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Distribution
Transportation and Logistics
Financial Institutions
Telecommunications
 Work Products Industrial Engineers
produce for the teams:
 Requirements Analysis
 Business and Engineering Analysis and
Models
 Architectural Design and Analysis
 Construction of components for systems
 What are the techniques and tools do
they use?
 Cost Analysis Techniques
 Probabilistic and Statistical Techniques
– Simulation, Six Sigma, etc.
 Optimization and Scheduling
 Work Measurement, Human Factors,
and Ergonomics
 Management and Safety
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 UML and Object Constraint Language
blueprints
 Applications: legacy transformation,
commercially off the shelf packages and
customized applications
 Testing and governance on workflow
and portfolio management
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Business Driven Development for Industries
Where can Industrial and Systems Engineers contribute? They are flexible enough to take on
several roles and activities in the life cycle for an information system.
Strategy
Assign
Plan
Business
Business Analysts
Consulting
End User
Executive
Operations
Manager
Define
Requirements Model the
Business
Govern
Optimize
Analyze
& Design
Project Manager
Application
Support
Manage
Strategic Outsourcing
Operations
Run
Deployment
Manager
Manage change
& assets
Analyst
Distributed Architect
Developers
Implementation
Deploy
Developer
Test
Tester
Implement
Development
Redesign/Design
Industrial Engineers can help transform business processes into composite applications that automate and
integrate the business using information systems
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