Accounting for uncertainty in output and stimulation of R&D units planning

The efficiency of the enterprise as a link depends on both planned targets and their actual performance. In this view the planned value affects the customers' opinion about the company, and reduces the economic effect. The production above the planned level may provoke the lack of the predicted demand. The excess of production is then not implemented and, therefore, the company will incur losses related to the loss of potential customers. The given article describes the technique of R&D planning on the basis of the volumetric determined models. Basically, the authors study the problems concerning the top level of hierarchy, namely, the problems of defining the R&D basic stages and the volumes of necessary expenses. The most effective and modern approach to realization of such substantiation is the use of mathematical models. Thus, it is essential that the models applied to the decision of problems of this level, should consider not only internal properties of the enterprise (the organizational models), but they should also take into account the external environment of the enterprise with accessible completeness. As this completeness is rather limited, in view of insufficiency of the information on properties of environment, the planning technique should provide the possibility of correcting the planned offers, as well as their recalculation under the specified data.