For a company to remain competitive in the market place it is important for the company to utilize their systems engineering workforce effectively.To do this, a company must collect information about their workforce and manipulate this information to the companies' benefit. This paper explores the management of the systems engineering discipline across companies that perform systems engineering activities by: (1) summarizing the current literature, (2) reporting the results of an industry survey, and (3) identifying additional areas for research. Literature is limited when discussing the management and monitoring of individual systems engineering capabilities, the survey data provides insight on how companies manage and track their systems engineering workforce.
The functions or roles of the systems engineering discipline are well documented in literature. However, the opinions vary with many overlaps and there is no focus on implementation of systems engineering based on the size of the company. This paper summarizes the results of a survey conducted across companies of various sizes that perform systems engineering to determine which systems engineering lifecycle activities are supported, who performs these activities, and how does a company decide who should perform these activities. The survey data indicates large companies implement systems engineering differently than medium and small companies.
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