technology
Communications
Economics
Examples of technology in the following topics:
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Sourcing Technology
- Technology sourcing, or the pursuit of implementing new technologies within a businesses strategic framework, involves isolating and applying new technologies to current models.
- Technology can be developed internally or isolated through technology scouting and then implemented through technology transfer.
- Technology scouting is essentially forecasting technological developments through information gathering.
- Transfer of technology is therefore expensive, from licensing the patented technology to requesting training in new technological advances for staff.
- Technology develops through a series of stages: basic technology research, research to prove feasibility, technology development, technology demonstration, system/subsystem development, and system test, launch & operations.
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Assessing an Organization's Technological Needs
- Assessing the internal technological assets and future needs of an organization prepares management for successful technology integration.
- Technology Strategy - identifying the logic or role of technology within the company.
- Technology Forecasting - identifying applicable technologies for the company, potentially through scouting.
- Technology Roadmapping - ascertaining the trajectories of technological advancement and applying business or market needs to this assessment.
- Technology Portfolios - accumulating all technologies relevant to products or operations to determine which are ideal for internal implementation.
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Technological Developments in Textiles
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Technological Change
- In economics, technological change is a term used to describe the change in a set of feasible production possibilities.
- One primary factor that influences the growth of an economy is technological change.
- Technological change is a term used to describe the change in a set of feasible production possibilities.
- In order to advance and continue to grow all markets need to make use of new technology to stay competitive.
- Advances in technology creates an increased level of output with the same inputs, which improves productivity.
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Technology
- Technology is one small piece of knowledge.
- Technology is more than a set of skills to do things.
- Humans seek to understand these interactions and develop technology by combining and reorganizing existing technologies.
- Technological change is pervasive.
- New technology is the result of old technology(ies) being recombined in new ways and used for new purposes.
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Technology as a Driver and Enabler of Innovation
- Technology is a powerful driver of both the evolution and proliferation of innovation.
- The proliferation of innovation pertains to two important factors of technology driving innovation: the creation of geographic hubs for technology and empowerment of knowledge exchange through communication and transportation.
- Communication and cumulative knowledge in these technology hubs allows for these innovations to spread via technology to be implemented across the globe with relative immediacy.
- Empirical evidence generates a positive correlation between technological innovation and economic performance.
- Examine the role of technology as a driver of competitive advantage and innovation in the business framework
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Understanding Current Trends in Technology
- The field of business technology management (BTM) arose to provide businesses with the best approaches for assessing and implementing these varying technological advances into their strategies.
- Information - Scouting and assessing the current technological environment through extensive research teams is necessary to make the appropriate decisions (see "Sourcing Technology" and "Assessing Needs in Technology" within this Boundless segment).
- Taken together, these four dimensions applied to alignment and synchronization of new technology can help businesses keep up with or ever stay ahead of current technologies and trends.
- Companies can benefit from the intrinsic opportunities technological progress provides while offsetting the intrinsic risks of external technological development.
- Recognize the importance of keeping pace with current technologies and trends to retain competitive capacity and identify the four specific dimensions of business technology management (BTM)
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The State of Technology
- By looking at how business IT strategies are structured, we can identify why technology matters through considering the state of technology from various perspectives.
- Technology is the great enabler.
- Nowadays, integrating technological tools to execute complex tasks is the norm.
- Identifying technologies that could cut costs, improve productivity, capture new markets, or fulfill new needs for consumers is a constant focal point for technology specialists.
- All and all, the current state of technology is always evolving.
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Using Technology to Communicate
- Communication technologies support many types of messaging and information sharing in organizations.
- Some technologies support simultaneous, or real-time, interaction, including among individuals in different locations.
- Examples of this type of technology include teleconferences and web chats.
- Organizations use communication technology to support and drive their business activities.
- Some examples of technology used to communicate in business include:
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The Challenge of Technology
- Technology management is crucial in offsetting the risks of new technology while acquiring the operational benefits it provides.
- The reason behind the prioritization of technology management is that new, disruptive technology constantly threatens to result in higher efficiency of competitors.
- From a general standpoint, business technology management focuses on understanding how technology fits into an organization's processes and structure.
- Performing appropriate research and analysis of the current technological environment generates the highest return on the (often expensive) investments demanded by keeping pace technologically.
- The capacity to forecast up-and-coming technologies to construct an investment road map that always keeps the competition a technological step behind