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What is Technology Management? Part 2
In a previous article I covered the Kearns Six Facet Model as a way to understand what technology management is all about. Universities with technology management programs also offer definitions, including these from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the University of Stuttgart in Germany, and the University of Trieste in Italy. South…
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Quality in your Genes
Is your body programmed to get cancer? How about Parkinson’s, or multiple sclerosis, or diabetes? With 23andme.com, you could find out if you are predisposed to these or 19 other diseases simply by spitting in a cup. In addition, you can easily donate your data to further medical research. These are the same kinds of…
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Polls, Margins of Error, and Six Sigma Data-Driven Decision Making
One of the most critical skills that a technology manager can have – or any manager, really – is the ability to interpret data and assess whether or not it reflects reality. Why is this important? Because good managers base their decisions at least in part on data, so the quality of the decision is…
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What is Technology?
The best definition for technology that I’ve found comes from the dictionary: Technology – The sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselves with the material objects of their civilization. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) The phrase “social groups” acknowledges that people are a critical part of developing and applying technology. “Provide themselves” indicates…
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What is Technology Management?
Technology management is the combination of science, engineering and management knowledge and practice, with technology as the central means of wealth and value creation. (Khalil, 2000) This definition can nicely coexist with any of the historical definitions of management covered in a previous post. Kearns et al. (2005) has attempted to make the connections between…
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What is Management?
A wide variety of definitions of “management” have been employed over the past century. Most of these definitions describe what managers do, with more recent research providing definitions that have emerged from exploring these managerial activities in the context of what results managers achieve. Over 25 years ago in 1982, Warren Bennis estimated that over…
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Reading This Will Change Your Brain
The title above comes from a Newsweek article published on October 14, 2008. The moral of the story is that recent research in neuroscience indicates that use of modern technology – in particular Web searching – actually exercises the decision making and complex reasoning parts of the brain. The end result is that younger people…
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