Enterprise Science for Technology-intensive Company and its Elaboration by Systems Thinking

The aims of this paper are two-fold; the first is to discuss a new discipline, the enterprise science advocated by one of the authors of this paper (Tschirky, 2000), especially for understanding and managing technology-intensive companies. The second is to point out some contributions of systems thinking to promoting the enterprise science to evolve into a more integrated as well as feasible form. After claiming that technology gap is not sufficiently refereed to in the understanding of management theories based on an intensive survey, we first argue the enterprise science, which one of the authors proposed as an comprehensive basic science for dealing with both technology and management. Then, we point out possible contributions of systems thinking to elaborating the enterprise science to an integrated form. We also give a glance to actual implementations of the science at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.