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Resource Planning In Engineering Services Firms, Vincent Hargaden, Jennifer K. Ryan
Resource Planning In Engineering Services Firms, Vincent Hargaden, Jennifer K. Ryan
Department of Supply Chain Management and Analytics: Faculty and Staff Publications
We develop a model to enable engineering professional services firms to improve the management of their competitive resources, i.e., skilled engineers, to be better able to respond to customer demand. The model was informed by semistructured interviews with senior executives from engineering, information technology (IT) services and technical consulting firms. As a result, we capture many of the complexities associated with the resource planning process in the professional engineering services sector. In the resulting model, the key attributes of supply, demand, and operations constraints are identified. Based on information obtained from the interviews, a number of test firms are created.We …