Everyone reads:

• Targeted Innovation: Using Systems Thinking to Increase the Benefits of Innovation Efforts.
  http://www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/st_innovation_990401.pdf
  

Choose and read any one (or more) of the following, to be referenced in the assignments that follow:

• Developing Requirements for Complex Electronics: More of an article to skim than to read closely (unless you want to). This does show some of the level of detail needed in developing requirements.
  http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/software/ComplexElectronics/l_requirements3.htm
• Requirements Analysis: This WIKIpedia article reinforces many of the concepts presented on requirements.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements_analysis
• Systems Thinking: WIKIpedia article defines systems thinking.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking
• Overview of Systems Thinking: PDF article by Daniel Aronson
  http://www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/OverviewSTarticle.pdf