Dr. William B. Rouse is the 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 has written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored many books, including most recently People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-Centered Design (Wiley, 2007), Essential Challenges of Strategic Management (Wiley, 2001) and the award-winning Don’t Jump to Solutions (Jossey-Bass, 1998).  He is editor of Enterprise Transformation: Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change (Wiley, 2006), co-editor of Organizational Simulation: From Modeling & Simulation to Games & Entertainment (Wiley, 2005), co-editor of the best-selling Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management (Wiley, 1999, 2008), and editor of the eight-volume series Human/Technology Interaction in Complex Systems (Elsevier). 

Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation.  Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow of four professional societies - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.  He has received the Joseph Wohl Outstanding Career Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; a Centennial Medal and a Third Millennium Medal from IEEE; the Best Article Award from INCOSE, and the O. Hugo Schuck Award from the American Automation Control Council.  He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Engineering, and other biographical literature, and has been featured in publications such as Manager's Edge, Vision, Book-Talk, The Futurist, Competitive Edge, Design News, Quality & Excellence, IIE Solutions, Industrial Engineer, and Engineering Enterprise.

Sage, A.P. and Rouse, W.B. (eds.) (2009) Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management, 2nd Edition, John Wiley, New York.

Rouse, W.B. (2008) Healthcare as a Complex Adaptive System, The Bridge, Vol. 38, Issue 1, pp 17-25.

Rouse, W.B. (2007) People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-Centered Design, Wiley, New York.

Rouse, W.B. and Sage, A.P. (eds.) (2007) Work, Workflow, and Information Systems, IOS Press, Netherlands.

Rouse, W.B. (2007) Complex Engineered, Organizational & Natural Systems: Issues underlying the Complexity of Systems and Fundamental Research Needed to Address these Issues, Systems Engineering, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 260-271.

Human decision making and problem solving
Strategy formation, evaluation & implementation
Analysis, design & evaluation of information systems