1 Future of Engineering Management in the Age of Data-Driven Decision-Making

John V. Farr and David Farr

United States Army

Lucy Lunevich

RMIT University

DOI: 10.1201/9781003374879-1

1.1 Introduction

For the last 50 years, the discipline of Engineering Management has been defined in terms of technology: manufacturing, industrial, information technology, automatization, biotechnology, nanotechnology, etc. Originally, the discipline was understood as the form of engineering, project management, cost-benefit analysis, opportunity realization, and operational management.

With rapid economic development across many countries, increasing economic complexity, and digitalization, the discipline of Engineering Management becomes intensively multidisciplinary. ...

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