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Technological Leadership2 Agenda Technology Leadership Technology Management Components Technology Assessment Technology Forecasting Technology Transfer Technology Management Process Technology Life Cycle Managing Innovation and Commercialization Click for Text

Technological Leadership3 Who Is a Technology Leader? Technology developers Technology commercializers Technology stewards Those who specify and build the systems Those who figure out how to make a profit Those who get the systems built and employed Project Process Product USE Click for Text

Technological Leadership4 Who Is a Technology Leader? Technology stewards User management Project managers & clients Process managers Product owners Project Process Product USE Click for Text

Technological Leadership5 Technology Leadership Three components: Assessment Forecasting Management Transfer A technological leader fosters technological innovation, and understands the technology life cycle. Such a leader initiates and steers commercialization of technological advances, links business and technology strategies, manages technology R&D and understands technological revolutions. Click for Text

6 Technology Management Components Technology Assessment Evaluating technologies as they are created To make wise investments, understand the true costs, improve existing technologies, and develop ways of employing technologies Technology Forecasting Predicting what technologies are going to be available To strategize technology use, second-guess the competition, stay on top of the technology wave Click for Text

Technological Leadership7 Technology Management Components Technology Management Developing and using appropriate technologies To lead the technology, employ it in the best way, and to profit from technology use. Technology Transfer Helping others learn the benefits and uses of appropriate technologies Making technologies available to others Click for Text

Technological Leadership8 Technology Assessment: Two examples Evaluation Research Goal is to measure the effectiveness of particular technologies on particular desired outcomes and rule out other causes as the source of the outcome. Technique is to measure baseline values, based on critical success factors, and measure over time Click for Text

Technological Leadership9 Technology Assessment: Two examples Benchmarking Goal is to compare your product or system with the best in the marketplace and to determine what you must do to have the equivalent of the best Technique is to determine desired outcomes, find best in class technology and characterize it, compare, and move the quality horizon. Click for Text

Technological Leadership10 Technology Forecasting Limitations Assumptions Philosophical basis Problems Click for Text

Technological Leadership11 Technology Forecasting Group-based Focus groups; GSS; Delphi; panels Scenario planning Studies Life-cycle studies, historical analysis, trend, cultural, political, economic analysis Click for Text

Technological Leadership12 Technology Transfer Rest of Organization Technology Innovation Source InfusionAdaptationInnovationDilutionEvolution Commercialization Click for Text

13 Technology Management Process Plan Develop the technology plan Research Find out what is needed, forecast technologies, assess technology menu Procure or Develop Find out what is available, developing acquisition and finance strategies Improve Monitor use, develop improvement strategies, adhere to technology plan Control Commercialize, transfer, plan for obsolescence, train, manage culture clash Dispose Scrap, reinvoke management cycle Click for Text

14 Technology Management Process Plan Develop the technology plan Research Find out what is needed, forecast technologies, assess technology menu Procure or Develop Find out what is available, developing acquisition and finance strategies Improve Monitor use, develop improvement strategies, adhere to technology plan Control Commercialize, transfer, plan for obsolescence, train, manage culture clash Dispose Scrap, reinvoke management cycle Click for Text

Technological Leadership15 Technology Life Cycle Time Market penetration, Use, Acceptance, Volume, etc. Development Application Launch Application Growth Mature Technology Substitution and Obsolescence Click for Text

Technological Leadership16 Managing Innovation and Commercialization Scientific Knowledge Fundamental Questions Science Engineering Research Projects Research Publication Industrial R&D Policy Research Projects Development Projects Pilot Plant Testing Initial Production Marketing/ Commercialization Business strategy R & D New Products or Processes Applied Research and Prototypes Manufacturable Designs Testing and Refinement Pilot and Production Product Introduction Science Business Technology Strategy Discovery Invention Click for Text

Technological Leadership17 Commercialization and Marketing of Technology Time Sales Profit Break- even Are all internally developed systems “loss leaders”? Click for Text