The delineation of defense equipment projects in the UK ministry of defence
The delineation of defense equipment projects in the UK ministry of defence
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英国国防部国防装备项目划定
DOI：
10.1080/1475179042000219125
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发表时间：
2004
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通讯作者：
D. Neal
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作者：
T. Taylor;D. Neal
工党政府引入了智能采购计划（SPI），作为1998年战略防御审查的一部分。SPI在新千年的早期被重新命名为智能采办（SA），以表明其对整个设备周期的关注，从最早的概念到处置，在国防部引入了重大的组织变革，并认可了一系列的想法和实践。社会进步指数自然聚焦于它所取代的系统中存在的明显问题，以及试图创建组织和流程，使英国能够最大限度地利用新技术机会。在一个快速技术变革的时代，特别是在电子、计算和信息技术领域，英国不应该被局限于简单地用更先进的同类设备替换现有设备的做法，这一点被视为很重要。这里的论点是，它引入的解决方案正在制造自己的问题，这些问题挑战了智能采办思维的一些基本原理，特别是国防装备采办可以主要从项目管理的角度来考虑的概念。我们将看到，“项目”的定义是非常困难的。
The Labour Government introduced the Smart Procurement Initiative (SPI) as part of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review. The SPI, which was re-badged early in the new millennium as Smart Acquisition (SA) to signal its concern with the whole of the equipment cycle from earliest concept to disposal, introduced significant organizational change in the Ministry as well as endorsing a range of ideas and practices. The SPI naturally focused on the apparent problems in the system it replaced as well as on trying to create organizations and processes that would allow the UK to take maximum advantage of new technological opportunities. In an age of rapid technological change, especially in the electronics, computing and information technology area, it was seen as important that the UK should not be locked into the practice of simply replacing existing equipment types with more sophisticated versions of the same thing. The thesis here is that the solutions it introduced are creating problems of their own that challenge some of the fundamentals of Smart Acquisition thinking, and in particular the notion that the acquisition of defense equipment can be conceived in terms mainly of project management. It will be shown that the definition of “the project” is remarkably difficult.