(Still) striving for Utopia

Abstract

Business process analysts joins computer engineers as the new social engineers of the time. However, there are worrying signs of technological determinism. To avoid such, the state of systems science should be examined, perhaps through a jointly-sponsored `systems science' research activity. This is necessary, without an appropriate systems science and systems engineering base, demands will continue to be placed on practitioners and service suppliers by politicians and customers, with the risk that some solutions will fail to perform, possibly with serious consequences.