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Managing Mega technological projects: The case of the defence industry and Network Centric Warfare projects
Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
2020 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis project consists of acomparative work on three different militarymegaprojects regarding Network CentricWarfare, in three different countries: theUnited States, France and Sweden. The aim ofthe comparison is to find similarities anddifferences with respect to why, and if, theprojects failed, or are failing, and if they failed - to what extent. The objectives of the militarymegaprojects were ambitious and a great dealof the involved technology was not yetdeveloped at the time and the technicalrequirements were incongruous. For thecomparative study a narrative case studymethodology has been employed, structuringand analysing the different militarymegaprojects.The result is three different descriptions of themilitary megaprojects reproducing the internaland external dynamics of two of the threeprojects. One project, the French one, has beenreproduced up to its present stage because it isplanned to continue to the 2030s. The result ofthe comparison between the militarymegaprojects has shown that such vast projectscan be managed like normal vast developmentprojects. On the other hand, these kinds of vastprojects are comprehensively complex. Suchprojects do also involve ideas leading to projectdevelopments of already known and unknownobstacles before and during the mega projectnot possible to manage and results in projectand development failure

Abstract [fr]

Cette thèse est une étudecomparative de trois méga-projets militairesmenés aux Etats-Unis, en France et en Suède,dans le domaine du network centric warfare ouguerre réseaucentrique. L’objectif de cetteétude est d’observer les similitudes etdifférences dans le développement et la gestionde ces projets, de comprendre les raisons decertains choix stratégiques puis d’évaluerl’ampleur de leur réussite ou échec. Cesprogrammes étaient particulièrementambitieux puisqu’une grande partie de latechnologie répondant à ces besoins n’existaitpas encore et certains impératifs techniquesétaient proprement incompatibles. L’étude decas et la comparaison des méga projets sontprésentées sous une forme narrative.Le résultat en est la description des trois mégaprojets militaires reproduisant les dynamiquesinternes et externes à l’oeuvre pour deux destrois projets. Le projet français a été décritjusqu’à l’étape de développement actuel, ledéploiement du projet étant prévu jusqu’aumilieu des années 2030. Cette comparaison desméga projets militaires a montré que le type demanagement appliqué à ces vastes programmesn’est pas différent de ceux mis en oeuvre dansle cadre de projets de moindre envergure. Celadit, les méga-projets restent extrêmementcomplexes et ce type de développement doittenir compte de différents obstacles, déjàconnus ou non durant les différentes phases dedéploiement, lesquels se trouvant être danscertains cas impossibles à contrôler

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Paris: Institut Polytechnique de Paris , 2020. , p. 366
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Systems science for defence and security
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9703OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-9703DiVA, id: diva2:1526193
Public defence
2020-09-08, 14:00 (English)
Note

Disputationen genomfördes uppkopplat på distans enligt franska regler med jury.

Available from: 2021-02-10 Created: 2021-02-05 Last updated: 2021-03-12Bibliographically approved

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