ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1971.tb00663.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In recent years many formal attempts, e.g. Baker&Pound, (1964), have been made to help R&D management assess the worth of R&D projects and select those most worthy of inclusion in the R&D programme. Most of these attempts are based on financial appraisals of a project's worth and require estimates of the costs and likely revenues that will result from the adoption of a given project. It is clear, therefore, that the validity of any measure of a worth for a project is dependent upon the accuracy of the estimates of cost and revenue associated with that project. Unfortunately the limited amount of evidence so far presented suggests, in particular, that cost estimates are extremely inaccurate.In this paper, therefore, we try to add some further evidence on forecast accuracy for a number of industrial R&D projects. We begin with a short review of the existing literature evidence and continue with an analysis of the past effectiveness of R&D work and, in particular, of forecast accuracy.

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1971.tb00664.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper discusses the use and development of a research project planning and progressing system based on the system described by Baker&Smith (1967). It is an attempt to highlight some of the practical problems involved in setting up and developing such a system at Colworth/Welwyn, the largest Unilever research laboratory in the United Kingdom. The problem at Col worth/Welwyn, as at Port Sunlight, was to improve communications at all levels of management, and, in particular, to direct senior management's attention to those areas where it was most needed.The system described here is only a project control system, and does not formally cover other aspects of research management such as project selection and result implementation. A project control system was chosen as the starting point because it was regarded as the most important, and the easiest to implement throughout the whole laboratory.This paper was first presented at a conference to the R&D Study Group of the Operational Research Society, February 1970.

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1971.tb00665.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1971.tb00666.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1971.tb00667.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY