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Master of
Business Administration- MBA Semester 4
OM0018–Technology
Management-4 Credits
(Book ID:
B1979)
Assignment (60 Marks)
Note: Answer
all questions must be written within 300 to 400 words each. Each Question
carries 10 marks 6 X 10=60.
Q1. a. What
do you mean by S&T policies of organisations?
b. What is
the role of innovation in S&T?
Answer. a. SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS& CENTERS
1. AAAS Directorate for Science and Technology Policy
Programs
The Directorate for Science and Policy Programs (SPP)
serve society, government, and the research community through a diverse set of
activities. Its programs address several objectives of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), including furthering the work of scientists,
improving the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, and
fostering scientific freedom and responsibility.
Q2. a. Write
about the changing trends in the industry.
b. Explain
the methods for Strategic Analysis and Decision Making.
Answer. a. 1.
'SMAC Stack' adoption to gain speed.
A manufacturing comeback is being driven by SMAC —
social, mobile, analytics and cloud. The SMAC Stack is becoming an essential
technology tool kit for enterprises and represents the next wave for driving
higher customer engagement and growth opportunities. The need to innovate is
forcing cultural change within a historically conservative "if it's not
broke don't fix it" industry, and SMAC is helping early adopters in the
manufacturing market increase efficiencies and change.
Q3. a.
Explain about the concept of strategic planning.
b. Describe
the concept of technology maps.
c. What is
technology forecasting?
Answer. a. Strategic
planning is an organization's process
of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its
resources to pursue this strategy. It may also extend to control mechanisms for
guiding the implementation of the strategy. Strategic planning became prominent
in corporations during the 1960s and remains an important aspect of strategic
management. It is executed by strategic planners or strategists, who involve
many parties and research sources in their analysis of the organization and its
relationship to the
Q4. What is
the impact of the technology change on the following?
a.
Organisational productivity
b. Quality
of work life
Answer. a. Technology
and Productivity Growth
"The strong performance of productivity growth in
the second half of the 1990s was in fact attributable to accelerating technical
change, not to poor measurement or to temporary factors."
Productivity is one of the most closely watched
indicators of long-term economic prospects. Rising productivity is the key to
making possible permanent increases in the standard of living. In Productivity
Growth in the 1990s: Technology, Utilization, or Adjustment (NBER Working Paper
No. 8359), authors
Q5.
Demonstrate Global Information System.
Answer. A
global information system (GIS) is
any information system which attempts to deliver the totality of measurable
data worldwide within a defined context.
The Global Information System (GIS) is a
global-coverage, core current strategic intelligence service for use only by
governments. It is not available to non-governmental subscribers. GIS
represents a base of more than 250,000 pages of data and images on 255+
countries and territories, updated daily, along with a constantly-growing
database of special reports on a wide range of specialist topics and regional
studies.
Q6. Explain
the conceptual framework of Management of Technology.
Answer. Technology
management is set of management
disciplines that allow organizations to manage their technological fundamentals
to create competitive advantage. Typical concepts used in technology management
are: technology strategy (a logic or role of technology in organization), technology
forecasting (identification of possible relevant technologies for the
organization, possibly through technology scouting),
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