Technology management methodologies and applications: A literature review from 1995 to 2003

Abstract

Technology management is a process, which includes planning, directing, control and coordination of the development and implementation of technological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of an organization. This paper surveys technology management (TM) development using a literature review and classification of articles from 1995 to 2003 with keyword index in order to explore how TM methodologies and applications have developed in this period. Based on the scope of 546 articles of technology management methodologies, this paper surveys and classifies TM methodologies using the eight categories of: TM framework, General and policy research, Information systems, Information and communication technology, Artificial intelligence/expert systems, Database technology, Modeling, and Statistics methodology, together with their applications for different research and problem domains. Discussion is presented indicating future development for technology management methodologies and applications as follows: (1) TM methodologies tend to develop towards expert orientation, and TM applications development is a problem-oriented domain. (2) Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods, and integration of TM technologies studies may broaden our horizons on this subject. (3) The ability to continually change and obtain new understanding is the power of TM methodologies and will be the subject of future work.