This chapter explores some of the issues involved in acquisition management. It sets acquisition management into its wider context by describing some of the processes that lead to the decision to launch a particular acquisition project, looks at the use of acquisition strategies as a means to choose how best to acquire equipment and/or services and to demonstrate these choices to stakeholders, and at acquisition cycles as a means for managing the project once launched.
BT - Defence Management: An Introduction CY - Geneva LA - eng N2 -This chapter explores some of the issues involved in acquisition management. It sets acquisition management into its wider context by describing some of the processes that lead to the decision to launch a particular acquisition project, looks at the use of acquisition strategies as a means to choose how best to acquire equipment and/or services and to demonstrate these choices to stakeholders, and at acquisition cycles as a means for managing the project once launched.
PB - Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces PP - Geneva PY - 2009 SE - 6 SP - 155 EP - 184 T2 - Defence Management: An Introduction TI - Acquisition Management ER -