Forecasting information technology
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Two conflicting views on the issue of forecasting on the evolution of communications and information technologies are presented. One of these believes that the development and evolution of technologies are often governed by chaotic mechanisms that cannot be foretold. The other argues that forecasting will always be important despite well-known forecasting failures in the field of telecommunications industry. Technology and forecasting must always be joined together for the benefit of technology, business and society.
Publication Name: Research-Technology Management
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0895-6308
Year: 1999
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Global managers face five problem areas
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Customer needs should be of paramount importance if companies are to survive in an increasingly competitive global business environment. However, laboratory managers encounter various problems in their efforts to make their companies more responsive to customer needs. These problems can be classified into five areas, namely, regional technology management issues, R&D program management issues, transnational communication issues, cost and funding issues as well as human resource issues.
Publication Name: Research-Technology Management
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0895-6308
Year: 1995
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The fashionable thing
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Scientific and technological research trends tend to be reactive and imitative. Historical analysis of these trends reveal that many mismanaged research activities were done simultaneously with other countries. It is behavior analogous to the fashion trends in styles and clothes.
Publication Name: Research-Technology Management
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0895-6308
Year: 1992
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