The Economics of Human Systems Integration Valuation of Investments in Peoples Training and Education, Safety and Health, and Work Productivity

Human Systems Integration is a new but fundamental integrating discipline in moving business and engineering cultures toward a more people-technology orientation. Economics of Human Systems Integration provides essential economic concepts, principles, methods, and tools on systems integration issues and tradeoffs. This text focuses on human issues associated with design, development, production, operations, maintenance, and sustainment of complex systems. Professionals and students will enjoy the wide range of real-world applications, tools, methods for economic analysis, and the different executives and governmentrs"s perspectives on economic decision-making.

William B. Rouse is Executive Director of the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a professor in the College of Computing and School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Rouse's earlier positions include chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, CEO of two innovative software companies-Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology-and faculty positions at Georgia Tech, University of Illinois, Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University.