... Malaysia and have achieved productive efficiency because low end and middle of the range speakers can be produced in large numbers with greater cost effectiveness than in the UK. AE manufactures its top of the range speakers in house in Britain. AE realises positive synergies by having R&D facilities and top end speaker production based at the same unit in Cirencester. However, this has created a range of problems for AE since R&D originates in the UK while the majority of production is based overseas. Subsequently, issues are raised with regard to quality control, communication, time to market and cost. As a result, when the decision was made to increase the number of product lines in R&D it was deemed necessary to address these problems by introducing a wide ranging project management strategy. This report considers the impact of the recent implementation of the new project management department at AE, contains detailed ...

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