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Topical Engineering Issues for MBA Dissertation Topic

jamiedgwilson
Hi All, I'm currently studying for an MBA and trying to determine a suitable Dissertation topic. I have some areas within my own organisation that could potentially be used but I wanted to get input from a wider range of engineers to hopefully make any research I do relevant to more people. Clearly it needs to be related to a business topic but I want the link to engineering to be as strong as possible to make it interesting to me. 


I'd love to hear what you all see as the engineering industries current business related challenges or anything you wish you'd have the time to research more on.


Appreciate any inputs. 


Thanks


n.b. For context, I've an MEng in Aero-Mechanical Engineering, Chartered with IMechE, and around 10yrs industry experience across Defence, Nuclear and Automotive industries.
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    There is a corollary, but only for brave managers, and that is the idea of allowing a skunkworks, that is to say to allow  a part of the company that is allowed relative free rein within the larger organization. These (in my limited experience of electronics companies and places that slightly odd physicists get employed), depend heavily on the right characters in the command chain, and the skunkworks teams being able to produce enough 'golden eggs' to be left alone by the corporate boss characters. A number of organizations have "special project teams" or "rapid prototype facilities" that work in such a way, allowed to bypass some or all of the internal company process, such as use of non-vetted subcontractors or novel materials, just because there is a grudging admission even at the top that the official one size fits no-one process is too heavy for some types of things to be done well otherwise.  The problem is that the retirement of one or two key folk and it all gets flattened, and quite often the previously successful company does nothing new again, ever.

    M.
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    There is a corollary, but only for brave managers, and that is the idea of allowing a skunkworks, that is to say to allow  a part of the company that is allowed relative free rein within the larger organization. These (in my limited experience of electronics companies and places that slightly odd physicists get employed), depend heavily on the right characters in the command chain, and the skunkworks teams being able to produce enough 'golden eggs' to be left alone by the corporate boss characters. A number of organizations have "special project teams" or "rapid prototype facilities" that work in such a way, allowed to bypass some or all of the internal company process, such as use of non-vetted subcontractors or novel materials, just because there is a grudging admission even at the top that the official one size fits no-one process is too heavy for some types of things to be done well otherwise.  The problem is that the retirement of one or two key folk and it all gets flattened, and quite often the previously successful company does nothing new again, ever.

    M.
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