Raimo P. Hämäläinen Systems Analysis Laboratory

Aalto University, School of Science

MILESTONES OF

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Why Systems?

We live embedded in systems.Structures of active agents and elements with

interaction and feedback.Environment, climate, societies, organizations,

economies, industries, family…

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Being Better with Systems

Systems evolve over time.

Can be complicated sometimes complex.

Provide leverage points for improvement.

Seeing – thinking – acting

Better structures and behaviour

Systems Tools

Structuring, IdentificationModelling, Simulation

StatisticsOptimization, Games

Decision making, ControlRisk-, Efficiency Analysis

Better decisions and improved understanding

“Operations Research - The science of better”

20th Century –

The Systems Century

Systems Communities

Systems ThinkingSystems TheorySystems Science

Systems EngineeringOperations Research

Systems AnalysisSystem Dynamics

CyberneticsComplex Systems

Tektology

Tektology: Universal Organization ScienceRussian 1912, German ed. 1928.

Alexander Bogdanov 1873-1928

Systems Thinker’s Encounter Before the Soviet System was Created

Bogdanov, Gorgi and Lenin in Capri 1909

General System Theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy1901 - 1972

A new approach to unity of science

1951

Operational Research

Patrick Blackett1897-1974

World War II Tactics in antisubmarine warfare

Introduction of the term Operational Research

1937

Optimization Theory

Leonid Kantorovich1912 - 1986

Mathematical Methods of Organizing and Planning

Production1939

Nobel Prize 1975

George Dantzig1914 - 2005

Linear Programming Simplex

1947

Utility and Game Theory

John von Neumann 1903 - 1957

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior1944

John F. Nash Jr. 1928 -

Nash equilibrium, 1950Nobel Prize

1994

Oskar Morgenstern 1902 - 1977

Cybernetics

Norbert Wiener1894 - 1964

Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

1948

Operations Research

Introduction to Operations Research

1957

C. West Churchman1913-2004

Russell L. Ackoff1919-2009

The Systems Approach1984

”OR is not mathematics only”

System Dynamics

Industrial dynamics1961

Jay W. Forrester1918-

The Silent Spring

A wake-up call to realize the systemic nature of our environment

Rachel Carson 1907 - 1964

Silent Spring1962

Pesticides in the food chain

Global Modelling

Donella Meadows1941-2001

The Limits to Growth1972

Decision Analysis

Howard Raiffa1924-

Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty

1968

IIASA's first director from1972 - 1975

Systems Thinking

Peter Senge

The Fifth Discipline1990

Society for OrganizationalLearning

Peter Checkland1930-

Systems Thinking - Systems Practice

1981

Systems approaches towards sustainabilityLiving better in social systems

Managing systemic risksUsing computational power

Analysing Big Data

Acting with Systems Intelligence

Today: Acting with Systems

Systems Analysis LaboratoryEstablished in 1984

Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)

Systems Pioneers in the Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto U.)

Operations ResearchHonorary Chairman of the Finnish OR

Society 1983

Hans Blomberg1919 - 2006

Industrial Operations Research

Olli Lokki1916 - 1994

Systems Theory

Sampo Ruuth1936 -

Finnish Operations Research SocietyEstablished 1973

Christer CarlssonÅbo Akademi

1993

Pekka KorhonenAalto, BIZ

2003

Raimo P. HämäläinenAalto, SCI

2008

Jyrki WalleniusAalto, BIZ

2013

Honorary Chairmen

Alumni in Different Disciplines

.

Jussi Keppofinance

NUS, Singapore

Bengt Holmströmeconomics

MIT

Leena Suhlmanagement

sciencePaderborn U.

Risto Lahdelmaenergy technology

Aalto

Veijo Kaitalaevolutionary biology

Univ. of Helsinki

Annikki Mäkeläsilviculture

Univ. of Helsinki

Hanna Kokkoevolutionary ecology

Univ. of Zurich

Tuomas Sandholmcomputer science

Carnegie Mellon U.

Systems Analysis LaboratoryProfessors

Raimo P. HämäläinenFounder and Director

Harri Ehtamo Ahti Salo

Enrico BartoliniKai VirtanenEsa Saarinen

2001-2008Dept. of Ind. Eng.and Managem.

21st Century –

Mankind’s Greatest Challengesare Systemic

We create and live in systems We flourish with systems