TY - GEN
T1 - Tool selection process and its management for small and medium enterprises in defence projects
AU - Tran, Xuan Linh
AU - Shoval, Shraga
AU - Huynh, Thomas V.
AU - Ferris, Timothy
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - To be self-reliant and competitive in winning and maintaining defence contracts, the Australian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) need to improve their systems capability. By systems capability it is meant effectual use of sound systems engineering (SE) processes and effective use of SE tools. Unlike most large organisations, the Australian SMEs have not widely employed SE processes and tools in their work. It appears that the current SE software tools do not effectively aid SMEs with their work and that tool suppliers ' marketing does not specifically target SMEs. To aid SMEs in boosting their systems capability, thereby enabling them to effectively obtain and maintain defence contracts, this work, as part of an on-going research on a framework for tool selection for SMEs in defence, attempts to define a tool selection process and its management. This paper describes the current situation of the Australian SMEs and the issues they are facing with in regards to SE tools. It also proposes the requirements for a tool selection process for SMEs and the management of this process. Finally it discusses the initial findings of the on-going research.
AB - To be self-reliant and competitive in winning and maintaining defence contracts, the Australian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) need to improve their systems capability. By systems capability it is meant effectual use of sound systems engineering (SE) processes and effective use of SE tools. Unlike most large organisations, the Australian SMEs have not widely employed SE processes and tools in their work. It appears that the current SE software tools do not effectively aid SMEs with their work and that tool suppliers ' marketing does not specifically target SMEs. To aid SMEs in boosting their systems capability, thereby enabling them to effectively obtain and maintain defence contracts, this work, as part of an on-going research on a framework for tool selection for SMEs in defence, attempts to define a tool selection process and its management. This paper describes the current situation of the Australian SMEs and the issues they are facing with in regards to SE tools. It also proposes the requirements for a tool selection process for SMEs and the management of this process. Finally it discusses the initial findings of the on-going research.
KW - Management of tool selection
KW - Requirements
KW - Small and medium enterprise (SME)
KW - Systems engineering
KW - Tool selection process
KW - Tools
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/61449162174
U2 - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2008.4724173
DO - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2008.4724173
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AN - SCOPUS:61449162174
SN - 9781424421732
T3 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SoSE 2008
BT - 2008 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SoSE 2008
T2 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SoSE 2008
Y2 - 2 June 2008 through 4 June 2008
ER -