There are far too many to list here but I have included a few key recommendations that are important to the development of my thinking.
- 1970 – John M. LOGSDON – The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest
- 1978 – John GALL – Systemantics: How Systems Work & Especially How They Fail
- 1978 – J.E. GORDON – Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down
- 1979 – C. West CHURCHMAN – The Systems Approach and Its Enemies
- 1982 – W. Edwards DEMING – Out of the Crisis
- 1988 – Andrew “Andy” GROVE – Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
- 1988 – Taiichi OHNO – Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
- 1990 – James P. WOMACK, Daniel T. JONES and Daniel ROOS – The Machine that Changed the World: Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
- 1991 – Peter SCHWARTZ – The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
- 1993 – Steve MCCONNELL – Code Complete
- 1993 – W. Edwards DEMING – The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education
- 1995 – Karl ULRICH and Steven EPPINGER – Product Design and Development
- 1995 – VARIOUS – NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- 2002 – Dov DORI – Object-Process Methodology: A Holistic Systems Paradigm
- 2006 – Steven BRINDLE – Brunel: The Man Who Built the World
- 2006 – Joe SUTTER and Jay SPENSER – 747: Creating the World’s First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
- 2007 – John E. GIBSON, William T. SCHERER, William F. GIBSON – How to Do Systems Analysis
- 2007 – Phil ROSENZWEIG – The Halo Effect
- 2008 – Nick BOSTROM and Milan M. ĆIRKOVIĆ – Global Catastrophic Risks
- 2009 – Lucienne T.M. BLESSING and Amaresh CHAKRABARTI – DRM, a Design Research Methodology
- 2009 – David A. LIVERMORE – Cultural Intelligence
- 2010 – Harold “Bud” LAWSON – A Journey Through the Systems Landscape
- 2011 – Olivier L. DE WECK, Daniel ROOS and Christopher L. MAGEE – Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World
- 2011 – Alexander KOSSIAKOFF, William N. SWEET, Samuel J. SEYMOUR and Steven M. BIEMER – Systems Engineering Principles and Practice
- 2013 – Lenny DELLIGATTI – SysML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Systems Modeling Language
- 2014 – VARIOUS – INCOSE Vision 2025
- 2014 – Nick BOSTROM – Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- 2014 – Erin MEYER – The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
- 2015 – David MCCULLOUGH – The Wright Brothers
- 2015 – VARIOUS – INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook Version 4.0
- 2017 – Jon HOLT and Simon PERRY – Don’t Panic! The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Model-Based Systems Engineering
- 2017 – Bent FLYVBJERG – The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management
- 2018 – VARIOUS – DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: 60 Years 1958-2018
- 2021 – VARIOUS – INCOSE Vision 2035
- 2022 – Olivier L. DE WECK – Technology Roadmapping and Development: A Quantitative Approach to the Management of Technology
- 2023 – VARIOUS – INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook Version 5.0
- 2023 – VARIOUS – ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023 Systems and software engineering: System life cycle processes
- 2024 – VARIOUS – ISO 19450:2024 Automation systems and integration: Object-Process Methodology