#001 – Bryan Moser – Teamwork & Socio-Technical Systems Engineering

MIT System Design and Management (SDM) Academic Director and Sr. Lecturer

Notes:

• Interview with Bryan R. Moser – The nature of teamwork via the study and design of socio-technical systems: http://www.mit.edu/~bry/
• Academic Director and Sr. Lecturer, System Design and Management (SDM) @ MIT: https://sdm.mit.edu/
• Associate Director, Strategic Engineering Research Group @ MIT: http://strategic.mit.edu/
• Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences @ the University of Tokyo: https://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html.en
• Director, Global Teamwork Lab @ the University of Tokyo: https://gtl.edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/home
• Founder of the company Global Project Design (GPD): http://www.teamport.com/

Links from discussion:

Time stamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:00:57 Bryan’s self introduction
• 0:01:35 Bryan’s mission
• 0:02:00 Bryan’s career
• 0:02:32 How to distribute the engineering?
• 0:04:00 Decomposition and design of a product
• 0:05:12 Teamwork
• 0:06:50 Steps of Bryan’s Career
• 0:08:42 Entrepreneurship journey
• 0:10:35 Transition to teaching and research
• 0:12:00 Advice to novices
• 0:14:40 The underlying physics of complex systems
• 0:15:35 Bad advice to ignore
• 0:17:15 Opportunities and Challenges
• 0:18:15 Failures to learn from
• 0:20:15 Conclusion