Social enterprise systems engineering

We live in a world surrounded by technical marvels that eclipse much of what might have been imagined only ten years ago. Many of these technologies stem from a synthesis across an array of engineering disciplines. Increasingly, they function as integrated systems. An example of this can be seen in the globally dispersed space, transportation, communication and medical networks that interoperate with personal technology devices to put a world of information, products and services at our fingertips. Concurrent with these everyday marvels, more than half of the people in the world live in abject poverty and depravation. Academic researchers trained in diverse social sciences have weighed in on crafting approaches to alleviating their seemingly intractable social and economic morass -- but thus far, engineering has not been prominent in the quest for solution frameworks. Engineering has proven itself to be quite successful in the domain of all things physical and process oriented. Can its application produce similar results in the social domain? This dissertation offers new disciplinary constructs with the capacity to engage engineers and engineering in crafting solutions to seemingly intractable social conundrum -- by integrating systems engineering into the field of development intervention. It introduces 'Development Intervention Systems Engineering' as a top down acquisition paradigm. It also introduces 'Social Enterprise Systems Engineering' as a discipline for achieving scale and mission assurance in bottom up, multi-stakeholder entrepreneurial economic development regimes. It concludes with a walkthrough of an exemplar artifact, an architectural description of a retirement migration social enterprise systems intended to simultaneously address economic morass in low-income economies and the OECD's looming population aging crisis.