Strategic Management of Technology

SA19.1 Strategic Management of New Technology

• Alan Pearson; Manchester Business School, R&D Res. Ctr., Booth St. West, Manchester, M15 6PB , UK; a.pearson@fs2.mbs.ac.uk
• Peter Swann; ; pswann@man.mbs.ac.uk
• Tim Watts; ; twatts@man.mbs.ac.uk

There has been much debate about the timescales required to exploit scientific and technological developments. Are they shortening or not? The answer to this question must be contingent upon the type of technology and the market environment. We discuss a recent research project in which we made an in depth study of virtual reality...

SA19.2 Requirements for Capability Maturity Models to Improve Communication in Virtual Organizations

• P. M. Wognum; ; p.m.wognum@sms.utwente.nl
• O. A. M. Fisscher; ; o.a.m.fisscher@sms.utwente.nl

Current capability maturity models have been developed to improve performance of development projects. Capabilities at different maturity levels have been defined for projects to perform in a controlled way, for organizations to facilitate their projects and for the people to improve their way of working. Capability maturity models are still mainly internally focused...

SA19.3 Integrated Design Capabilities & Technology Management

• K. Debackere; ; doenraad.debackere@lrd.kuleuven.ac.be

In order to keep up with the new product development race that occurs in many industries today, the innovative organization has to become much more adaptive in responding to technological and market changes. In order to achieve this, innovation management has to develop an integrated design capability that allows for fast product experimentation and adaptation...

SA19.4 Information & Communication Technology Divergence in the Context of Information & Communication Technology Convergence

• David L. Hawk; ; hawk@megahertz.njit.edu
• Alok K. Chakrabarti; ; chakrabart@adm.njit.edu

ICT has been sufficiently developed to become another commodity infrastructure but there is more to it. It is argued that the technical dimension will not really be a key factor in future development and that further growth, development and change is coming from the perceived potential in novel and innovative human-directed applications of the technical infrastructure. This shift from ICT to ITC is explored.