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By Ernest Braun
Technology in Context is a finished and obtainable research of expertise overview which defines and describes its function within the strategic administration of organisations. matters coated include:
* the elemental strategies required for the administration of technology
* the collection of knowledge in an organization to aid strategic judgements on technology
* expertise review within the usa Congress
* the broader social implications of technology
* difficulties linked to know-how, from the chance of environmental degradation to employment and skills.
Technology in Context is a whole creation to the idea and strategies of expertise evaluation as a device of strategic administration. it is going to be an invaluable ebook for all these attracted to the administration and social position of expertise.
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Extra resources for Technology in Context: Technology Assessment for Managers (Routledge Studies in the Management of Technology and Innovation)
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This situation calls for a process technology assessment. This means that the main emphasis of the assessment is to examine the new process technology and its alternatives, and looking at all the impacts these technologies might have on the firm and its surroundings. 2 A decline in the industry the firm operates in is becoming apparent. An assessment needs to examine whether the decline is inevitable, what defensive action is possible, or what other means of escaping decline and oblivion might be available.
For society at large, a fast pace of innovation, without proper regard for the needs of environmental protection and social cohesion, is not the right recipe for a happy future of humankind (Braun 1995). e. introducing new manufacturing machinery, control equipment, and processes bought from outside which are new in the context of the firm. The very act of choosing, and the act of getting the best out of purchased equipment, requires major effort. If the plant consists of many individual machines and devices, then welding these together into an efficient manufacturing organization requires months of designing, fine tuning, bug-hunting, training, negotiating and organizing (Bessant 1991).
Clearly, perfect objectivity is not given to humans who have beliefs and adhere to systems of values. Nevertheless, a team of assessors who attempt to be as objective and as truthful as possible, and who collect information from a full range of available sources, should provide a reasonable approximation to objectivity. One of the conditions that need to be fulfilled, however, is that the team must be free of fear; its members must be willing and able to say what they see as the truth, not what they guess their bosses want to hear.