Ensuring resilience and agility of complex organizational-technical systems

Gitelman, L. D.; Gavrilova, T. B.; Kozhevnikov, Mikhail; Starikov, E.M.

doi:10.2495/dne-v13-n2-208-220

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“…These ideas are the subject of further research and require additional elaboration. The authors' own experience [29], [30] of forming breakthrough teams in energy companies and developing smart partnerships of energy business, science and education has been highly successful and provides a convincing proof of the practical relevance of technology entrepreneurship as an instrument of responding to industry challenges.…”

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confidence: 86%

Scaling Up the Innovation Process in the Energy Sector on the Basis of Technology Entrepreneurship

Gitelman

Kozhevnikov

Starikov

et al. 2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The liberalization of the energy sector, the spreading adoption of digital information and telecommunication technologies, decentralization, and expansion of RES-based distributed generation provide broader development opportunities for technology entrepreneurship in the industry. Nevertheless, the energy sector remains one of the "least entrepreneurial" industries of the global economy-both by number of corporate innovations and by number of independent startups. Having summarized a corpus of theoretical research and the results of a survey of energy experts, the authors were able to describe fields of applications and key barriers to the development of technology entrepreneurship in the industry and at a corporate level. On the basis of an analysis of the experience of US and British energy companies, the authors propose typical models of technology entrepreneurship and schemes of resource interaction among energy companies, consumers of new products and services, universities, developers and investors in the course of implementation of breakthrough projects. The results of the study and the authors' recommendations can be used by energy companies creating corporate mechanisms of technology entrepreneurship, as well as by government agencies and universities for the development of the innovation infrastructure of the energy sector.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 86%

Scaling Up the Innovation Process in the Energy Sector on the Basis of Technology Entrepreneurship

Gitelman

Kozhevnikov

Starikov

et al. 2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…This enabled them to design three innovative projects in a matter of 18 months that were presented to the top management. The projects with a horizon of 5 years and the direct economic effect amounting to 500 million roubles envisaged the penetration of new markets, renewal, and launch of new fixed assets, changes in the corporate culture and the policy on the professional development of employees [31].…”

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A science and education platform for intellectual support of breakthrough teams in the energy sector

Gitelman¹,

Kozhevnikov²

2022

Int. J. EQ

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Making a breakthrough in the energy industry is a particularly laborious cross-disciplinary challenge due to the extreme complexity of production systems and the necessity to ensure the compatibility of a huge number of technologies and industrial and managerial systems of various nature. This makes it highly relevant to provide knowledge-intensive support for teams that implement projects aimed at breakthrough transformations. This article describes a specialized science and education platform that is being rolled out by the authors at a number of major energy companies in Russia and at Ural Federal University. The platform has features of a communications platform that brings together science, education, and energy companies, and of a digital ecosystem that serves as a framework for customized services for stakeholders. The platform uses an operation mechanism that is designed to ensure the reproduction of knowledge that is in line with corresponding trends and changes emerging in the global, national, and industrial contexts, and promptly converts it into learning content and a project agenda for breakthrough teams. An original methodology for the training of breakthrough teams and arguments for the appropriateness of using a platform-based approach in order to increase intellectual capital in the energy industry constitute the scientific novelty of the article. This article has a practical value to it as it demonstrates the scaling capability of the elements of the conceptual model, of its operation mechanism, and the best practices of using a science and education platform as the organizational basis for breakthrough projects in the energy sector.

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“…There was a practical need for a methodology that would reduce the risks and influence of systemic mistakes and ensure collaboration on the boundaries of disciplines where unforeseen problems arise most often. Systems engineering became the source of such a methodology [1] as it presents a way of tackling the complexity of systems being designed.…”

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Methodologies for Managing Complex Systems Under Uncertainty

Gitelman

Gavrilova

Kozhevnikov

2020

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The problems of managing socio-technical systems, the complexity of which is constantly increasing, in a time when the external environment becomes more and more volatile, and large-scale changes develop unpredictable effects, requires managers to have an adequate response and act pre-emptively in unexpected situations. In this regard, it appears practical to apply methods of systems engineering that was created for designing complex systems and keeping them functional throughout their lifecycle. An analysis of various theoretical concepts and practical approaches employed in systems engineering showed their potential for being adapted to the purposes of managing complex systems under uncertainty. For example, the method of engineering resilience could be used for training interdisciplinary teams that need to be able to handle complex problems with speed, coordination, initiative and mutual support. It also appears usable for setting up coordination centers that produce strategic assessments of implications, set priorities, distribute resources, motivate teams and provide training, thus building preparedness to address unforeseen problems. The method of Agile systems engineering is effective for preempting problems that occur as a result of intensive technological development and are characterized by capriciousness, uncertainty, risk, variability, and evolution. The above methods were applied for training breakthrough teams-an original project of the authors that has proved highly efficient for solving tasks of high complexity and uncertainty in energy companies and at

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Ensuring resilience and agility of complex organizational-technical systems

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Scaling Up the Innovation Process in the Energy Sector on the Basis of Technology Entrepreneurship

Scaling Up the Innovation Process in the Energy Sector on the Basis of Technology Entrepreneurship

A science and education platform for intellectual support of breakthrough teams in the energy sector

Methodologies for Managing Complex Systems Under Uncertainty

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