Creating And Managing A Technology Economy

Pt. 1. Innovation. Honda's predisposition towards radical and disruptive innovations / W. David Holford and Mehran Ebrahimi. Innovation capability reconfiguration in business transition : a case study on Taiwanese PC firm / Ting-Kuei Kuo and Tim Minshall. The emergence of wireless networks / Wenshin Chen and David Bennett -- pt. 2. R&D. Technology strategy of R&D internationalization : an empirical study from a developing country / Louis Y. Y. Lu and T. M. Chen. Russian R&D organisations : cases of international technology collaboration / Anna Trifilova -- pt. 3. Services. Building a global electronic manufacturing service provider : vendor's process in outsourcing / Zoran Perunović and Mads Christoffersen. Support services in developing technology b-to-b relationships / Juha-Pekka Koistinen and Pekka Eskola. Designing rapid services for competitive manufacturing / Deepak A. Sachdev and Darius P. K. Singh -- pt. 4. Industry. Productivity assessment of implementing wireless technologies in steel construction using simulation technology / Amine Ghanem. Next generation PLM - an integrated approach for the development and management of the product service systems in the telecommunications industry / Julius Golovatchev and Oliver Budde. Ranking management of technology conferences / Harm-Jan Steenhuis and Eerik J. de Bruijn -- pt. 5. Management. An empirical study of information system for disruption management / R. Abdi and S. Sharma. Technology management : best practises of the South African automotive supplier industry / Marthinus P. Fick and André J. Buys. Assessing and improving project management information system in a multi national company / Omar Khalifa Gneiber and Gebril Mohamed Zletni. Management of technology support center for enhancing competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in Egypt / Yasser Tawfik and Tarek Khalil -- pt. 6. Community. Authorities, hubs, and brokers in communities of practices / Marianne Hörlesberger and Petra Wagner-Luptacik. Does a favorable environment have a positive effect on university technology transfer activities? : a case study on two Texas state universities / Michi Fukushima.

Includes the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in the field of global information technology management, covering topics such as the technical platform for global IS applications, information systems projects spanning cultures, managing information technology in corporations, and global information technology systems and socioeconomic development in developing countries.

The International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) is one of the largest scientific associations dedicated to advance the education, research and application of management of technology. The annual IAMOT conference assembles the most prominent scientists and experts in the field. The 17th conference held in 2008 included over 300 papers by experts from various countries. This volume is a collection of the best, high quality papers presented at the conference, covering topics and issues related to the knowledge economy, commercialization of knowledge, green technologies, and sus.

Today, opportunities and challenges of available technology can be utilized as strategic and tactical resources for your organization. Conversely, failure to be current on the latest trends and issues of IT can lead to ineffective and inefficient management of IT resources. Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy is a valuable collection of papers that presents IT management perspectives from professionals around the world. The papers introduce new ideas, refine old ones and possess interesting scenarios to help the reader develop company-sensitive management strategies.

Many experts believe that through the utilization of information technology, organizations can better manage social and economic change. This book investigates the challenges involved in the use of information technologies in managing these changes.

This text brings an engineer's perspective to the discussion of effective management of technology. It stresses technology's role in creating wealth and achieving competitiveness. There is emphasis on the importance of considering both the speed and scope of change in technological development.

In this book, the story of how IKEA and its paper producers struggled to solve the problem of creating environmentally friendly paper constitutes the foundation of a discussion of technological development. Through a detailed analysis of the case-study, the authors demonstrate the necessity of including social, technological and economical factors when dealing with such issues. Focusing on the interactive aspects of commercial and technological development, they examine how new solutions are developed and shaped in relation to the different companies and organizations involved. They investigate resources in terms of how they are related and built into other resources through historical and contemporary interaction processes. Their overall emphasis is on dealing with the issue of how different, closely and distantly related companies and organizations are affected when resources are developed.

This Proceedings contains many research and practical papers dealing with the impact and influence of information technology on the global economy.