Management of Technology and Innovation

Competing Through Technological Excellence
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-81-321-0083-6
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

This updated, second edition of the book offers an understanding of the management of technology and innovation, not in isolation, but as a dynamic integrated system connected to organizational culture, knowledge management and value creation. To enhance the understanding of the hypercompetitive industrial markets of the globe, this edition carries two new chapters focusing on how technological innovation can lead to wealth creation. In doing so, it weaves wealth creation with other seminal concepts of social capital, human capital and knowledge management. An additional appendix outlines a few technologies and approaches that are useful in technology management.
Management of Technology and Innovation: Competing through Technological Excellence provides a synoptic account of the diverse dimensions of technology management, from incremental innovation, integration of design and manufacture to technological innovation and creation of hybrid technologies. It provides an outline of the rationale of the strategic evaluation of investments in technology, and brings about its contrast with the conventional accounting framework of net present value (NPV) and discount cash flow (DCF) analyses. It also discusses the national technological/industrial policies of USA and Japan.

This book will be an invaluable resource for management students and teachers studying the theory and practice of technology management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rastogi, P N

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Technology as the Driving Force of Global Industrial Competition

PART I: Concepts and Themes

The Axes and Atlas of Technology Strategic Management of Technology

PART II: Manufacturing Technology

Productivity and Incremental Innovation

Technology Absorption

Structure of World Class Manufacturing

Crucial Issues in Flexible Technology

Strategic Evaluation of Technological Investments

PART III: Technology Development

The Product Development Cycle - Integration of Design and Manufacturing
Management of Technological Innovation

Technology Fusion and the New R&D

Core Competencies in Technology and its Commercialization

PART IV: The Organizational Support System

Structural Imperatives of Technology Management

Building Organization Culture

The Organization as a Laboratory for Learning

PART V: Cooperation between Government and Industry

Role, Rationale and Requisites of National Technology Policy

Coping with Continuous Change-The Structure of the Japanese Innovation System

Spectrum of Technological Excellence and Generation of Wealth

Prosperity of Companies and Countries - Is Social Capital the Missing Resource?

Appendix I Methods for Coping with Uncertainty in Technovation and New Product Development

Appendix II. Some Useful Methods and Approaches

References and Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rastogi, P N
P N Rastogi was professor at IIM Lucknow and IIT Kanpur. He has been a post-doctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Nuffield Fellow at the London School of Economics; National Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He is well-known for his work in the field of social and management cybernetics, computer simulation of systems, dynamics of conflict, rural development, societal systems, organizational design and development, management of productivity and technovation, technology policy, and policy analysis and problem-solving methodology for complex real-world problems.

He has developed numerous state-of-the-art course modules on management themes for both managers and engineers. He has authored Social and Management Cybernetics (1979); Intelligent Management Systems (1987); Productivity, Innovation, Management and Development (1988); Quality Circles (1990); Managing New Technology (1991); World Class Manufacturing (1992); Total Quality Management: Theory and Practise (1993); Policy Analysis for Complex and Unstructured Problems (1992); Managing Constant Change (2005) among others.