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Development Management and Cost Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

B. D. Blackwell  and
A. V. N. Reed
B. D. Blackwell
Affiliation:
Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd, Small Engine Division
A. V. N. Reed
Affiliation:
Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd, Small Engine Division
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The object of this paper is to present a study of the problem of development management and cost control in a Defence setting. It does not offer any simple final solution, nor indeed claim some sudden breakthrough. It is, however, felt that progress in this field in the UK has been retarded by the lack of publication of attempts to think about this problem. In these circumstances, the processes of both criticism and cross-fertilisation of ideas, so essential to progress in any field of endeavour, cannot get to work and there is a high probability that the same mistakes will be made over and over again. If the publication of this paper does no more than stimulate others to publish their thoughts on this important problem, a major part of the objective of preparing it will have been achieved.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 660 , December 1965 , pp. 813 - 824
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1965

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