Adapt to Prosper
Electrification in the automotive industry brings advantages and challenges. The move from complicated products to complex interconnected systems demands changes to the organisation structures.
How would an engineering departmental manager feel, when teams are formed that cross organisation departmental boundaries? Who is in charge? There might be challenges outside of managers areas of expertise?
Understanding the need to successfully harness the effects of interactions and interdependencies between system elements, and between a system and a changeable environment leads to organisational change.
Supporting people to work together with common aims and to be responsible for product level success has shown great benefits.
The role of systems engineering at BorgWarner has never been more important than now.
Colin Hood started work in the Electrical and Electronic industry in 1977 and has been a Systems
Engineer since 1985. Colin Hood is a founding member of the International Requirements Engineering
Board, and has been a member of INCOSE since 1999. Colin is an expert in Requirements
Engineering and Requirements Management. Requirements Management is the interface between
Requirements Engineering and all Systems Engineering processes such as Risk Management,
Project Management, Change Management, Version Management, Configuration Management,
Verification and Validation.
Colin Hood has written several books on Requirements Management and Requirements Engineering
and is often invited to speak at conferences across Europe and America.
Colin Hood has a first degree from Brunel University, a Diploma in Management Studies, and a Master
of Business Administration (MBA) from Henley Management College.
Colin is currently living in the UK, and has lived and worked in various European countries and in
America.
Colin Hood’s mother tongue is English, he is fluent in German, and has conversational French.
Director of Engineering, ePropulsion Systems BorgWarner Inc.
- Leading a global team of 1700 engineers across 13 locations in Americas, EMEA and Asia
- Global competency leader for Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Engineering Excellence, Functional Safety and Cybersecurity