Strategic Technology Management In Business: An Application In Automotive Industry

Abstract

In this text, the level of the use of technology in the means of technological management and the relationship between technological management and the department that is responsible for this management activity shall be examined in a strategical point of view. In this respect, some inputs about the subject of this research had been obtained from automotive supply industry businesses by using the member database of TAYSAD. These inputs had been encoded one by one and then installed to SPSS program, which is used commonly for statistical evaluation of the research results. Thereafter, some charts had been created according to these hypothesis and the results in these charts had been analyzed and interpreted. After these evaluations, the meaningful relation between the level of the use of technology and strategical management of technology emerged. Besides, it is established that the level of the use of strategical technology management differs from business to business depending on departments that are responsible for management of technology.As a result, it is important to have managers who are in the strategical level and who have a background of technology education, for the use and management of technology for successfully integration of the process of strategical management and technology management. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p739