Services
Systems strategy for organizations operating under complexity
The Fragility Audit (Risk & Resilience)
- Goal: Identify where "efficiency" has created dangerous brittleness.
- Action: Stress-test workflows to find single points of failure and hidden risks.
- Outcome: A "Resilience Report" recommending where to add redundancy and safety buffers.
Ecosystem Design (Organizational Structure)
- Goal: Break down rigid silos that slow decision-making.
- Action: Restructure teams from "Command & Control" to decentralized networks (Team of Teams).
- Outcome: Faster execution and "Gardener" training for leaders to manage culture rather than tasks.
The Strategic Pruning Workshop (Innovation)
- Goal: Eliminate bloat and zombie projects that drain resources.
- Action: A facilitated session focused entirely on subtraction—deciding what to stop doing.
- Outcome: A prioritized "Kill List" and immediate reallocation of resources to high-growth areas.
About the Principal
Art Villanueva, DEng, ESEP
Dr. Art Villanueva is a systems engineer and artificial intelligence practitioner whose work explores how complex adaptive systems give rise to structure, intelligence, and meaning. His focus lies at the intersection of engineering, organization, and society — examining how large‑scale systems evolve and how they can be designed and governed without suppressing the very emergence that makes them resilient.
He is the founder of Phronos, where he applies systems thinking and advanced analytics to complex engineering and organizational problems. He currently serves as a Senior Staff Engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, contributing to next‑generation aerospace technologies. His career spans defense, clean technology, and enterprise strategy, including leadership roles at Northrop Grumman and Dell Technologies, as well as entrepreneurial experience founding clean energy technology companies.
Dr. Villanueva holds U.S. patents and has published peer‑reviewed research in systems engineering, distributed systems, and applied artificial intelligence. He earned degrees in systems engineering and applied mathematics from UCLA, UC San Diego, and Colorado State University, and is recognized as an INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP).