The Role of Systems Engineering in Make-or-Buy Technology

摘要

Technology is one of the strategic factors in an enterprise. Sooner or later, every organisation will be faced with the problem of how to acquire the needed technology. An enterprise can acquire technology either through 'making' (the pursuit of new technology development though internal R&D) or 'buying' (acquisition from external sources). This is known as the "make-or-buy" or "sourcing" problem. This paper will discuss how and what role systems engineering discipline can play in approaching this problem. The results show that systems engineering approach can play a major role in solving this problem especially through the requirements and decomposition analysis.