Centre for Technology Management

TMAP: Technology Management Assessment Procedure

A practical guide for assessing technology management processes in the firm

NOTE: this book is no longer in print

• Contents of the workbook

Background

The effective management of technology as a source of competitive advantage is of vital importance for many organisations. It is necessary to understand, communicate and integrate technology strategy with marketing, financial, operations and human resource strategies. This is of particular importance when one considers the increasing cost, pace and complexity of technology developments, combined with shortening product life cycles.

A Technology Management Assessment Procedure (TMAP) has been developed to provide practical support for technology management in the context of the business. The procedure is based on a five-process technology management framework (ISAEP):

• Identification of technologies which are (or may be) of importance to the business
• Selection of technologies that should be supported by the organisation
• Acquisition and assimilation of selected technologies
• Exploitation of technologies to generate profit, or other benefits
• Protection of knowledge and expertise embedded in products and manufacturing systems

A workbook has been developed to provide guidance on the application of TMAP, which comprises a series of integrated facilitated workshops. TMAP has been developed as an output from the EPSRC funded project "Technology management: a process approach".