Industrial cooperation through project management

Project Management of large scale international space programmes presents a new array of problems to industry. They emerge from the unique conditions set by the marketplace coupled with unprecidented growth of `hi-tech`-competence in many corners of the world. The space business like many others is there to make a profit. The winner is the one who can offer the `most for the least`. However, today there is no monopoly on high-tech. State-of-the-art moves so swiftly now in the USA, Europe and Japan for example, that customers ar often baffled when it comes to selecting a contractor, al launch vehicle, or even thei own mission concept for a satellite. Industrieal cooperation through Project Management has thus become a vital part of the develping pattern of successful space programmes. This book describes three programmes from which important lessons have been learned. They cover such key subjects as organization, teaming, forms of cooperation and risk sharing, planning, project and contractual aspects. The issues discussed in this all-english text are predictive of the future trends which will affect a wide range of business, governmant agencies and the public consumer.