{"title":"Technology management for reshaping the world","authors":"D. Kocaoglu, T. Anderson","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222772","url":null,"abstract":"The world is changing rapidly, and technology is playing the central role in making the changes happen. The events since PICMET '01 have made it clear that every society everywhere in the world is affected not only by the changes, but also by the technology behind them. There are few events in the world today that are not dominated, or at least influenced, by technology. This observation can be explained by recognizing the current period in the history of the world as the \"technology era.\" When technology is properly used and managed, it leads to the reshaping of the world for the benefit of humankind. If technology is not managed well, humankind becomes a slave to it. This paper discusses the role of technology in society and the importance of properly managing it in the technology era.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"C-26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126482180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploiting new university technologies in product innovation: an empirical of the information and communications technology industry of Canada","authors":"L. van den Berghe, P. Guild","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222823","url":null,"abstract":"Universities are important sources of new technological knowledge for firms. This study examines cases of new university technology used specifically in new product innovation. Survey data was collected on 66 new product development projects within 52 established companies involving new technology from 26 universities. The companies were sampled from the information and communications technology sector in Canada. A key objective was to understand strategic importance of the new university technology to the firms. This paper presents the rich descriptive data that was obtained from the research model testing to be done at a later date. Data is presented for four main areas: general project information; product and market characteristics; technology transfer issues; and technological/strategic fit. Evidence suggests that new university technology is an importance strategic resource for product innovation and that the technologies are closely associated with the firm's core competencies. The resulting new products appear to be relatively new to the firm and to the marketplace and considerably enhance customer-perceived value. Firms seem to favour relationships with universities that are in close proximity. Exclusivity rights do not appear to be a dominant feature in the firm-university relationships.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130867556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting the dots: problems and proposed solutions","authors":"C. Thompson","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222773","url":null,"abstract":"The focus on asymmetric warfare and turf battles within the intelligence community highlights the critical function of communication in identifying problems and developing solutions. Technology management provides a number of enduring examples. Communication provides a framework for examining these problems and both available and proposed solutions.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130140190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellectual property management practices","authors":"N. Bhaduri, M. Mathew","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222792","url":null,"abstract":"The increased competitive environment has driven organizations to bank more upon their intangible assets than on their traditional assets in order to sustain their competitive advantage. This requires organizations to gear up their intellectual property (IP) management practices. Organizations need to have clear-cut commercialization policies with respect to their IP portfolios. Deployment strategies of licensing, cross licensing, selling out, donating, using for mergers and acquisitions, and maintaining for core competency, infringement monitoring can lead to considerable revenue income. Six case studies conducted in Bangalore, India, highlight the practices followed by some of the organizations leading in their industry in this regard.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115344252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reshaping our world through virtual collaboration","authors":"G. Bochenek, K.J. Ciarelli, J. Ragusa","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222776","url":null,"abstract":"To shrink the protracted length of total system and product development life cycles (DLCs), public and private sector organizations and their cross-functional integrated product teams (IPTs) have moved away from serial to concurrent collaboration to reshape organizational and stakeholder worlds. More recently, some organizations are now using real-time, on-demand, 3D life size fully- and semi-immersive virtual collaborative environments (VCEs) for DLC applications. To transform the US military to meet future needs, the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the US Army have implemented visionary, strategic, and technology-enabling initiatives called simulation based acquisition (SBA) and simulation and modeling for acquisition, requirements and training (SMART), respectively. Transformation-enabling technologies making SBA and SMART realities are: modeling and simulation (M&S), virtual reality (VR), and advanced collaborative environments (ACEs). Results have included the significant reduction in the use of traditional hardware prototypes and demonstration models, DLC times, and program costs. This case study focuses on the theories and foundations that led to the development of an ACE \"toolset,\" empirical testing and results, and the identification of advantages and applications of its use by operational collaborative IPTs. In spite of the success of this early ACE development, additional research and operational issues, empirical testing, and economic analysis remains.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116026511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assigning projects to project managers in a multiple-project management environment: a pilot study of a decision support model","authors":"P. Patanakul, D. Milosevic, T. Anderson","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222800","url":null,"abstract":"Project assignment is considered one of the most critical project decisions since it influences the performance of projects, and eventually the performance of the organization. Despite its importance, the literature reveals two major gaps on project assignment criteria and methodology. To close these gaps, this study proposes an additional set of project assignment criteria and a systematic methodology for project assignments (DSM). By using the concepts of these case study research combined with a literature review, the important potential criteria for project assignments are identified. These criteria are used in conjunction with the concepts of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the integer programming (IP) to develop a DSM for one company. The DSM is executed and validated with the company's information. As a past of this research project, this paper illustrates the results of the pilot study to be developed for the feasibility study of the DSM development.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123423699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power and empowerment: the role of top management support and team empowerment in new product development","authors":"Richard R. Reilly, Jiyao Chen, G. Lynn","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222805","url":null,"abstract":"Although recent empirical research shows the value of empowerment and top management support (TMS) for new product development (NPD) efforts, it remains an open question as to whether empowerment and TMS are always beneficial for NPD performance. In a study of a large number of NPD projects we examined this question by (1) assessing the direct contributions of empowerment and TMS to speed and success in NPD, and (2) examining the potential moderating influence of uncertainty on the effects of empowerment and TMS. Our results indicated that empowerment is positively associated with NPD speed under all conditions of uncertainty, but is more highly correlated with overall project success when uncertainty is high than when it is low. TMS is positively associated with both NPD speed and success regardless of uncertainty, but we found some suggestions that sponsorship is less important for speed-to-market in more certain environments, particularly when NPD projects are routine incremental innovations. Our study also indicates technological uncertainty and market uncertainty have a different moderating impact on the relationship between team empowerment and NPD success. The implications of these findings for a contingency-oriented view of NPD practices are discussed.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129990341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PRISM: a systematic approach to planning technology transfer campaigns","authors":"B. Capps, R. Fairley","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222818","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces PRISM, an approach for systematically planning software technology infusion campaigns. PRISM is particularly well suited to centralized technology diffusion agencies operating within large software organizations. Applying the PRISM methodology results in the selection of an appropriate mix of engagement models, training modes, and success modes.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131161240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industry and academe working together: factors that give life to initial and continuing success","authors":"S. Betts, M. Santoro","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222791","url":null,"abstract":"This paper stresses that industry and academe can successfully work together to advance learning and new technologies. In order to help stimulate these potentially powerful linkages, this exploratory study examined the key determinants for establishing and sustaining these relationships along with the subsequent learning and technology outcomes generated. Results using LISREL analyses reveal that several determinants are particularly important for advancing learning and technology outcomes in the initial and continuing stages of the relationships. These determinants include: trust, flexible university policies for intellectual property rights, effective communication and the presence of champions. The implications for these findings are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127150747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analytical approach to building a technology development envelope (TDE) for roadmapping of emerging technologies: a case study of emerging electronic cooling technologies for computer servers","authors":"N. Gerdsri, D. Kocaoglu","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2003.1222817","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a systematic approach to help technology managers to strategically identify and select emerging technologies in which to invest in order to achieve technological competitiveness in their new product development. The combination of Delphi method and hierarchal decision model is used in building a technology development envelope (TDE) - a curve representing a series of technologies with maximum impact on company's competitiveness over time. The result of TDE can be used as strategic inputs in the company's technology roadmapping process. A specific case study of emerging electronic cooling technologies for computer servers is introduced for demonstrating the model development processes in this paper.","PeriodicalId":380910,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '03: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology Technology Management for Reshaping the World, 2003.","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115371760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}