Implementing New Technologies Innovation and the Management of Technology

by Rhodes, Ed; Wield, David

• ISBN13: 9780631178057
• ISBN10: 0631178058
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Technological change has had a profound impact on manufacturing industry and related business sectors. Since publication of the first edition of Implementing New Technologies the pace of change ahs been maintained, often with uncertain consequences. In this new edition the editors have brought together a collection of readings which include:Project planning. Conversion or application of plans. Consolidation of change after the insertion of new technologies.Although the second edition includes material on innovation it is more concerned with the consequences of technology diffusion and technology transfer, concentrating on the adoption of technologies which are novel in a particular application even though not inherently 'new'.

Author Biography

Ed Rhodes and David Wield are both based in the Faculty of Technology of the Open University, where David Wield is Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I

A Core Problem Area

Introduction

Managing Our Way to Economic Decline

Investment in Technology - The Service Sector Sinkhole?

The Myth of a Post-Industrial Economy

Europe's Technological Performance

Technology Development and Japanese Industrial Competitiveness

The Innovation Environment

Introduction

Technology, Innovation Theory and The Implementation Process

Structural Crises of Adjustment, Business Cycles and Investment Behaviour

Interactive Innovation in Financial and business Services: The Vanguard of The Service Revolution

The Selection Environment

Capturing Value From Technological Innovation: Integration, Strategic Partnering, and Licensing Decisions

Strategy and Innovation

Introduction

The Global Context of Firm Level Innovation

What We Know About The Strategic Management of Technology

Technologies, Products and Firms' Strategies: A Framework for Analysis

Issues in User-Producer Relations: Role of Government

Managing Technology in Firms in the Service Industrie

Part II

The Interdependence of Technology and Organization

Introduction

Coping With Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Islands, Archipelagos and Continents: Progress on the Road to Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

The Successful Exploitation of new Technology in Banking

Manufacturing by Design

Technology, Skills and Work Organization

Introduction

Industrial Change in Europe: The Pursuit of Flexible Specialization in Britain and West Germany

The Need for Skills in the Factory of the Future

Can Human Skill Survive Microelectronics?

Computerised Machine Tools, Manpower Consequences and Skill Utilization: A Study of British and West German Manufacturing Firms

Social Choice in the Development of Advanced Information Technology

Worker Involvement in Implementing New Technology

Financing Innovation

Introduction

Implications of CAD/CAM for Management

Capital Budgeting as a General Management Problem

Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered

Charting a Course to Superior Technology Evaluation

The Economic Justification of advanced Manufacturing Technology (with special reference to AGVs)

The Dynamics of Project Organization

Introduction

Implementation as Mutual Adaptation of Technology and Organization

Strategy, Organizational Culture and Symbolism

Information Systems and Organizational Change

Post-Project Appraisals Pay

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