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Questions for a Technology Assessment
If you’re already familiar with what a technology assessment is all about, here are some examples of questions you can ask to help form ideas to shape your analysis: Cultural/Social Context. How does technology change the way we view ourselves in the historical context? How does technology change the way we interact with one another?Science…
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How do you conduct a Technology Assessment?
Technology assessment is the process of exploring the impacts of a new technology on people, social and governmental structures, and societies. Together, a technology assessment and environmental analysis can provide useful inputs into how a company or organization can develop a strong strategy. The acronym I use to remind me how to do a technology…
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What is an Environmental Analysis?
An environmental analysis (or environmental assessment) is a decision-making tool, often applied in technology management to characterize the forces impacting an emerging technology or a new or existing product. The environmental analysis can help you determine the effects of a proposed project or policy, and to proactively assess the impacts of a developing or emerging…
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Setting Expectations: Google Voice Search on the iPhone
On Friday, November 14th, John Markoff published a story in the New York Times announcing the new Google Voice Search technology for the iPhone. Here’s how he set expectations about the features and release date for this admittedly exciting new tool: Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon…
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Real or Not Real? Deadlines in Project Management
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) Your team is busily working to meet a deadline for an upcoming project, and you’re wondering whether you’re going to be able to pull it together. Everyone is getting nervous, drinking a lot of coffee and Mountain Dew, and staying at the office until the wee hours of the…
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Google Tracks Spread of Flu
Is the flu spreading across your state? You can find out using Google Flu Trends, which projects the spread of influenza based on how people are using Google to search for health information. Check out the movie illustrating how search data appears to correlate with flu data from the Center for Disease Control. The reason…
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Supply Chains and Supply Networks
Supply chains aren’t actually linear chains, but socio-technical systems that can be expressed as networks. In an October 2004 article in DM World, a data management magazine, Dennis Ladd expressed it well: Today’s competitive, fast-moving business environment has irrevocably changed the supply chain and the management of its functions as we know it. The traditional…
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