Vision for INCOSE
My vision for INCOSE continues to focus on improving the competitive advantage of our members in the global market place.
Continued ties between INCOSE and academia will ensure that education and training is relevant to the current needs in industry, and that academic research better anticipates and meets industry needs. INCOSE's efforts to date to host three levels of interchange among academics - deans, department heads, and faculty - are a major breakthrough that places us on that trajectory.
Our Corporate Advisory Board needs to expand its vision to not only have a desire to promote what is best for individual corporations and their industries, but they must also be promoters of the benefits of the trans-national and trans-industry nature of systems engineering. CAB representatives will have to help INCOSE obtain adequate resources to carry out its mission. This can take various forms such as: more corporate funding for member participation in INCOSE events and product development efforts; and establishing INCOSE as the lead organization with adequate budget and authority for cooperative international and national efforts that require substantial systems engineering expertise. This transition will have occurred when we see CAB companies competing to support systems engineers employed by their organization to represent INCOSE on these community endeavors.
INCOSE needs to expand its interaction with governments worldwide to establish the contacts and levels of trust to attract national resources that provide for education, training, and research in systems engineering that will advance the state of the art. We will have to engage key players from national research funding agencies worldwide to increase research, training, and scholarship funding in systems engineering programs that are identified with INCOSE.
These efforts are all about growth of INCOSE and its members. As this occurs, we should expect our numbers to increase and our operating structures to evolve to maintain and enhance the value of membership as evidenced by stronger member engagement and identification with INCOSE, an increased percentage of the membership contributing to important efforts, continued internal recognition of member contributions, significant increases in external recognition of member contributions, and multiple opportunities for innovation and creativity.
Profile
Bob Kenley has been member of INCOSE since 1994. In 1999, he was appointed Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, and in 2006, he was installed as the Secretary of INCOSE. During his tenure as Ways and Means Chair, he advised the Board on the necessary bylaws and policy changes to meet the needs of INCOSE as it has matured as an organization. As Secretary, he has ensured that the organization has met its responsibilities to the membership by carrying out his duties, which include organizing board meeting agendas, publishing board meeting minutes, responding to letters, and validating member rosters for elections. He also has been serving as chair pro tempore for board meetings.
He also is serving as the treasurer of the INCOSE Foundation, a charitable organization with the goal of advancing the development and image of systems engineering through funded scholarships, research, and international forums.
He presented his first INCOSE paper at the 1994 Symposium and has attended all Symposia since 1998. He has authored or co-authored papers published in INCOSE International Symposia proceedings, the Conference on Systems Engineering Research proceedings, and Systems Engineering.
He currently is Chief Editor of INSIGHT, a quarterly publication of INCOSE.
He is an independent systems engineering consultant for advanced technology development efforts sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy. He was employed as a systems engineer by Lockheed Martin from 1981 to 1998, working on space and nuclear systems. His assignments were in Sunnyvale, California, and in Washington, D.C. as a systems engineering fellow of the Idaho National Laboratory on detail to Department of Energy headquarters.
Bob received an S.B. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.S. in Statistics from Purdue University in 1979, an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1986. His doctoral dissertation, "Influence Diagram Models with Continuous Variables" was one of the seminal works in the field that is now known as Bayes Nets.
A complete CV is posted at http://www.kenley.org.
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