Monday, December 15, 2008

Technology Strategy for Managers and Entrepreneurs or Supply Chain Management

Technology Strategy for Managers and Entrepreneurs

Author: Scott Andrew Shan

This book emphasizes how the future manager can use strategic management of innovation and technology to enhance firm performance.

This book covers the evolution of technology, meeting consumer needs, capturing values generated from investments, development of technology strategy, and implementation of the strategy.

This book is designed to teach professionals in business, engineering, and science how to use the strategic management of innovation to enhance firm performance.



Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Introduction 1

Sect. A Understanding Technological Change 16

Ch. 2 Technology Evolution 16

Ch. 3 Technology Adoption and Diffusion 45

Ch. 4 Sources of Innovation 71

Sect. B Coming Up With Innovations 96

Ch. 5 Selecting Innovation Projects 96

Ch. 6 Customer Needs 117

Ch. 7 Product Development 144

Sect. C Benefiting from Innovation 170

Ch. 8 Patents 170

Ch. 9 Trade Secrets, Trademarks, and Copyrights 196

Ch. 10 Capturing Value from Innovation 226

Ch. 11 Competitive Advantage in High-Tech Industries 248

Ch. 12 Technical Standards 269

Ch. 13 Strategy in Networked Industries 288

Sect. D Formulating Technology Strategy 308

Ch. 14 Collaboration Strategies 308

Ch. 15 Strategic Human Resource Management of Technical Professionals 335

Ch. 16 Organization Structure for Technology Strategy 358

Name Index 387

Subject Index 393

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Supply Chain Management: From Vision to Implementation

Author: Stanley E Fawcett

For undergraduate or MBA courses in Supply Chain Management.

This text takes a strategic, managerial, and cross-functional view of supply chain management, enabling managers to participate in the vision and implementation of world-class supply chain networks.  To achieve this, the book introduces a Supply Chain Roadmap process model as a guiding framework for designing and implementing integrated supply chains. Students gain the knowledge and analytical tools to perform analysis and act as change agents within their organizations.



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