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Technology and Innovation Management
The document discusses innovation management and related topics including: 1) Innovation management involves tasks like innovation within organizations, strategies, and forecasting technology. 2) Companies should strive to be innovative for competitive advantages like responding to changing consumer and market needs. However, companies may lack innovation due to factors such as high costs, fear of failure, or relying on existing business models. 3) Managing innovation requires considering an organization's structure and culture as well as promoting creativity among employees through techniques like brainstorming.
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- 1. Technology & InnovationManagement Jamil Khatib Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib Engineering day – Birzeit university 22.05.2007
- 2. Contents Introduction toInnovations Innovation management tasks Innovation & organizations Innovation & strategies Innovation, people & creativity Technology forecasting methods Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 3. Why this topicEngineers source of researches and inventions Engineers and management Lack of innovation in our region Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 4. (1) Innovation Copyrights© 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 5. Innovation Innovation =Invention + Exploitation (Must be implemented and be useful) Something New or improved Perceived to be new (Intel inside) New market Away from routines Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 6. Innovation dimensions Copyrights© 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 7. Innovation core questionsWhat is New? New for whom? Where does the innovation start or end? Is novelty equal to success? Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 8. Innovation process Copyrights© 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 9. Sources of InnovationCopyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib Technology Market research institutes Products in other sectors Suggestions from the company Consultants Employees Competitors Technical services Suppliers Marketing research Universities & public researches Production Traders Patents Customers R&D External Internal
- 10. Why should acompany be innovative Competitive advantage Consumer behavior is changing Products short life cycle Technology changes & new products New customers/markets Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 11. Why companies arenot innovating No awareness of innovation (managers) High Costs of innovation Employees’ fear of innovation and failure Monopoly position Innovation needs long-term process Strategic decision to wait and observe No incentives for innovation (employees) The cash cow exists Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 12. (2) Innovation managementCopyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 13. R&D, Innovation &Tech. Management Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 14. (3) Innovation &organization Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 15. Organizations “ AnOrganization that is designed to do something well for the millionth time is NOT good at doing something for the first time . Therefore, organizations that wants to innovate …. need two organizations, an operating and an innovating organizations.” Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 16. Innovation & structureProject and organization structure Centralized/decentralized Close to market – fast reaction Degree of specialization Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 17. (4) Innovation strategiesCopyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 18. (5) Innovation &people Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 19. Innovation Promoters Innovationchampion (not always true) Know-how promoter (barrier of capability) Power promoter (barrier of will) Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 20. Creativity “ Everyact of creation is first of all an act of destruction” Picasso Creativity:= knowledge + imagination + evaluation Creativity techniques Brain storming Lateral thinking Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 21. Brain storming Partof problem solving involves ideas creation regardless of their initial worth Brain storming killers: Evaluation Criticism Large developed ideas Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 22. (6)Technology forecasting Copyrights© 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 23. Technology forecasting Scanning,Monitoring and Analyzing Portfolio approach Patent analysis Scenario development & road mapping Delphi-technique Technology S-curve Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 24. S-Curve Copyrights ©2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 25. Where to beused Innovation manager Product management Product life cycle Product & tech Portfolio management Change management (merge, new department) Technology Licensing Strategy planning Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 26. About me Msc.Technology & Innovation management Bsc. Electrical Engineering Consulting: Technology commercialization Product and Technology Strategy planning Change and Innovation management Creativity techniques Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 27. Thank you website:www.geocities.com/jamilkhatib75 Email: khatib@ieee.org Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib
- 28. Recommended books M.Dodgson: Technology and Innovation management C. Christensen: The Innovators Dilemma De Bono’s 6 thinking hats www.wipo.org Copyrights © 2007 Jamil Alkhatib