Study On Enterprise R&D Projects In Process Control And Performance Evaluation

Under the circumstance of global economic integration, technology innovation plays a more and more important role in enhancing the country competitive power. As the core in technology innovation activities, Research & Development's (referred to as the R&D) function becomes more and more outstanding. In order to enlarge its own competition advantages, an enterprise should reserve technical potential unceasingly and convert such potential into competitive products and technical achievements. The function of R&D is just to create such technical potential. Along with the enhancement of R&D's function and status, more and more attention is paid to the R&D management.Enterprises is now starting to pay attention to the function of organization means over R&D, coordinate the mutual relations between R&D department and others, and begin to concern the cost, quality, and progress in lifecycle of R&D project, and some aspects about R&D project such as uncertainty, interference, performance and control. This sort of management is established on the basis of modern project management theory, which needs the effective technical strategies, innovation-oriented construction system, and more advanced management methods. The focus of such management is to enlarge ratio of input and output, and to enhance farther performance of R&D project by the means of time and cost control.By using the modern theory of project management and evaluation, this paper analyzes the life cycle of R&D project. Combining with the most important parts and relevant activities, the paper analyzes the principles to be followed in R&D projects management, puts forward the effective method and applies such method by combining with the specific cases from three aspects such as progress, optimization, cost management and performance management.First of all, this article expatiates the theory, method and the results of model research of the R&D project management, and further defines the concept of R&D by combining with the existing views of R&D. According to the characteristics of enterprise R&D project management, this article re-divides the life cycle of R&D project management into four stages,and makes specific description over the basic activities and input elements in each stage, and analyzes the risk in progress and cost by combining with the life cycle.Secondly, basing on time restriction on the R&D project, the article points out the progress control is the most important part of the R&D project management success, and indicates the principle and emphasis of the progress control of R&D project. From the view of project time management, this article analyzes the process of the establishment for R&D project process schedule. Aiming at the disadvantage of traditional method of CPM,PERT, the article raises the best way to seek the key by minimizing the most regret value. Further more, taking the cost control of R&D project as the core of R&D project management, the article determines the method and steps for the cost control of R&D project, and completely describes the target of R&D project cost control and analyzes the input factors of the cost. Basing on the cost of entire life cycle of the project, the article designs the cost quota with the views of the entire life cycle, and puts forward the optimum implement program basing on the cost of the life cycle of R&D projects quota design. Also on basis of the optimization of process and cost, along with the life cycle, this article proposes the performance evaluation ideas, which combined the static and dynamic evaluation together. According to the performance evaluation characteristics of R&D project, a comprehensive indicators system of R&D project performance evaluation is established.In this system, economic, financial and non-financial indicators are selected and normalized; the static model for the R&D project performance evaluation is established basing on the basic principles of fuzzy integral.By using data envelopment analysis (DEA) method, the dynamic model for R&D project performance evaluation is build, which clearly recognizes the performance of R&D projects at various stages of the life cycle by a comprehensive evaluation, and then the dynamic project management is realized. Finally, basing on the R&D projects of Harbin Power Equipment Co., Ltd, the method putted forward in this article is applied and the solutions to improve the R&D project management are proposed.