Abstract
Integrating technology and business strategy, technology capacities with customers' needs, technology and business processes require a three-step mechanism of technology management (TM), namely integration of technology identification, implementation, and potential technology commercialization processes. TM requires creation of a functional technology network and good communication channels between strategic and technology managers, technologists and workers, and between a company and its stakeholders. This partly methodological and partly analytical study focuses on identifying the links within and between technology implementation and commercialization processes that could ensure maximum synergies and benefits for TM. Its added value also lies in the bibliometric statistics of the ScienceDirect and EBSCOhost databases (1960-2010), done for the identification of trends in TM. According to the statistics, and in terms of the development of integration aspects in TM, technology identification dominates, followed by technology commercialization, while the technology implementation phase is the least developed.
Highlights
Integrated technology management should enable a company to better evaluate, plan, carry out, link, and control technological processes and elements so that they are mutually supportive and synergistic
This article builds on the preceding article named Integration of technology management and its development − Interlevel overlap and technology identification, and is mainly focused on identifying integrative aspects in technology management, mainly in its technology implementation and commercialization phases that are highly important for the profitability of TM
If we look at the development of technology implementation processes using bibliometric statistics, it is clear that technology education and technology innovation are the most developed processes
Summary
Integrated technology management should enable a company to better evaluate, plan, carry out, link, and control technological processes and elements so that they are mutually supportive and synergistic. Integrating technology capacities with customers’ needs, technology with business strategy, technology and other business processes, and technology elements and processes often require a three-step mechanism of TM, namely integration of technology identification, implementation, and potential technology commercialization processes. Systematic technology innovation must be integrated with effective businessrelated changes in and outside a company (e.g., adjustment of related jobs, new performance and quality standards, adjustment of supply, storage and sale capacities, marketing and PR, modification of calculations and budgets, etc.). These activities should be a part of systemic planning and implementation processes within integrated TM (Leonardi, 2008). This article builds on the preceding article named Integration of technology management and its development − Interlevel overlap and technology identification, and is mainly focused on identifying integrative aspects in technology management, mainly in its technology implementation and commercialization phases that are highly important for the profitability of TM
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