Staff Page for Philip J Boxer

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Administrative home

Dynamic Systems, ISIS

Key responsibilities

Philip Boxer's research is directed towards the analysis of the costs, risks and required functional granularity associated with complex systems of systems that are socio-technical, software intensive and subject to rapidly changing demand environments.

Teams

Integration of Software-Intensive Systems, SoS Navigator Team 

Professional Background

Philip joined the SEI with a background as a strategy consultant to organizations spanning over 20 years, supporting leadership teams across many different industry sectors, both public and private. His focus is on the challenges organizations face from asymmetric forms of demand and the mitigation of risks associated with failing to develop requisite agility. He has developed a number of methods and tools needed to support strategy formation and collaborative design processes, including visual PAN and its associated forms of analysis.

Publications (recent or significant)

• Nicholas Whittall, Philip Boxer, Danny Flack et al, "Agility and Innovation in Acquisition" (2007), RUSI Defence Systems, http://www.rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/ref:A47CBE5B014A22/
• Philip Boxer, Edwin Morris, Dennis Smith, Bill Anderson "The Double Challenge in Engineering Complex Systems of Systems" (2007), news@sei, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/news-at-sei/columns/eye-on-integration/eye-on-integration.htm
• William Anderson, Philip Boxer, Lisa Brownsword "An Examination of a Structural Modeling Risk Probe Technique" (2006), CMU/SEI-2006-SR-017, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/06.reports/06sr017.html
• Philip Boxer and Richard Veryard "Taking Governance to the Edge" (2006), Microsoft Architecture Journal 6, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb245658.aspx

Education

• M.Sc. (London Graduate School of Business Studies)
• B.Sc. (Kings College, London University)

Professional Memberships and Activities

• INCOSE UK

Contact Information

Electronic mail address: pboxer@sei.cmu.edu

Phone: (908) 393 1954

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