TPACTechnology Policy and Assessment Center
 
 

Critical Technology Identification & Assessment Workshop

What Is It?

The on-site workshop presents a structured approach for technology evaluation including specific assessment and foresight techniques. The workshop can help you determin technologies important to your organization's future. The basic workshop runs two days, but can be customized according to your needs.

Using a systematic approach, the workshop shows you how to:

  • Frame your technological needs
  • Scan a wide range of potentially relevant technologies
  • Screen for critical technologies
  • Evaluate targeted critical technologies

The workshop also provides useful foresight techniques embedded within the overall approach to help you establish trajectories for your current technological base and future target technologies.

Prior to each workshop we provide a half-day session, at no charge, to establish your technology domain and application interests. The pre-workshop assessment session enables us to tailor the workshop emphasis and examples to fit your technological environment.

For Whom?

The workshop is aimed at managers and professionals with strategic technology resposibilities, including:
  • R&D managers
  • Senior technologists
  • Strategic planners
  • Technology licensing and tranfer professionals
  • Product development managers
  • Technology-based marketing professionals

Workshop Leaders

Alan L. Porter is Director of Georgia Tech's Technology Policy and Assessment Center(TPAC) and Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and Public Policy.

Frederick A. Rossini founded TPAC and recently retired as Professor of Systems Engineering and Public Policy at George Mason University where he also served as Provost, managing all information technology.

Nils C. Newman is President of Intelligent Information Services Corporation. He is an expert on bibliometric analysis for technology foresight, working with a number of firms to map their current and future competitive technological interests.

Drs. Porter and Rossini have worked together for over two decades, leading technology forecasting workshops at a number of sites in the U.S. and abroad; presenting a multi-year "Emerging Technology" workshop series for IBM; and co-authoring Forecasting and Management of Technology [John Wiley, 1991], and over 100 technology foresight methodology and application articles. Nils Newman and IISC have worked with TPAC since 1995 to provide technology mapping and forecasting for public and private sector clients.

Workshop Outline

    Introduction
      Overview and aims, participant introductions, refining objectives

    Cold - Technology Scanning
      Scoping, attribute identification and characterization, technology scanning techniques (e.g. monitoring, bibliometrics, expert opinion, and creativity techniques)

    Warm - Technology Screening
      Attribute by technology matrix, Technology Delivery Systems (TDS), trend analysis, competitive technological intelligence (CTI), determination of critical technologies

    Hot - Technology Assessment
      TDS in depth, advanced trend analysis and expert opinion, technology mapping, impact assessment, scenario management, management analysis, communication

    Summary
      Summary of workshop, identification of next steps

For More Information

We can help you manage technology better! For more information about this short course, or to answer specific questions, contact:

Dr. Jin via email at j.xiyiu.isye.gatech.edu
or
Alan Porter, Director/TPAC by
Phone at 404-894-2330
Fax at 404-894-2301
Email at alan.porter@isye.gatech.edu

Identifying and evaluating technologies for your organization's future