Such methods provide the practical ‘nuts and bolts’ means for engaging with the organisation, to gather, explore, organise, analyse and communicate the information necessary for decision-making and management.

The Centre for Technology Management has been conducting research into management tools since 1993, exploring:

• The development of well-founded and effective management tools
• The nature and organisation of management tools and toolsets
• Visual methods for strategy and innovation

Tool catalogues  

• ‘Matrix’ tools and frameworks
• Decision support tools
• Design management tools and techniques
• New product development body of knowledge
• Value based management
• Innovation management
• Change management
• Continuous improvement
• Periodic table of visualisation methods
• Visualisation methods 

CTM Research

• Strategic Technology and Innovation Management (STIM) Consortium
• Roadmapping for strategic alignment
• Early stage technology acquisition and protection
• Open innovation
• Breakthrough innovation
• Industrial emergence
• Technology intelligence
• Make or buy

Practical support

IfM Education and Consultancy Services Ltd is wholly owned by the University of Cambridge. Embedded within the university's Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), it provides a rapid dissemination route for new ideas and approaches developed by researchers at the IfM. 

CTM Publications

Books and guides

• Phaal, R., Farrukh, C. and Probert, D. (2010), Roadmapping for strategy and innovation – aligning technology and markets in a dynamic world, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, ISBN 978-1-902546-82-7.
• Cetindamar, D., Phaal, R. and Probert, D. (2010), Technology management – activities and tools, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
• Mortara, L., Kerr, C., Probert, D. and Phaal, R. (2007), Technology intelligence – identifying threats and opportunities from new technologies, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, ISBN 1-902546-51-2.
• Phaal, R., Farrukh, C.J.P. and Probert, D.R. (2001), T-Plan: the fast-start to technology roadmapping - planning your route to success, ISBN 978-1-902546-09-4, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.
• Farrukh, C.J.P., Phaal, R. and Probert, D.R. (2000), Technology management assessment procedure - a guide for supporting technology management in business, Institution of Electrical Engineers, London.
• Probert, D. (1996), Developing a make or buy strategy for manufacturing business, Institute of Engineering and Technology, London, ISBN 978-0852968635.

Journal papers

• Kerr, C., Farrukh, C., Phaal, R. and Probert, D. (2013), ‘Key principles for developing industrially relevant strategic technology management toolkits’, Technology Forecasting & Social Change, 80 (6), pp. 1050-1070.
• Ilevbare, I.M., Probert, D. and Phaal, R. (2013), ‘A review of TRIZ, and its benefits and challenges in practice’, Technovation, 33 (2-3), pp. 30-37.
• Phaal, R., Kerr, C., Oughton, D. and Probert, D. (2012), ‘Towards a modular toolkit for strategic technology management’, International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 8 (2), pp. 161-181.
• Lee, S., Mortara, L, Kerr, C., Phaal, R. and Probert, D (2012), ‘Analysis of document-mining techniques and tools for technology intelligence: discovering knowledge from technical documents’, International Journal of Technology Management, 60 (1-2), pp. 130.156.
• Keltsch, J.-N., Probert, D.R. and Phaal, R. (2011), ‘A process for configuring technology management tools’, International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 7(3), pp. 181-200.
• Mortara, L., Kerr, C.I.V., Phaal, R. and Probert, D.R. (2009), ‘A toolbox of elements to build technology intelligence systems’, International Journal of Technology Management, 47 (4), pp. 322-345.
• Phaal, R., Farrukh, C.J.P. and Probert, D.R. (2006), ‘Technology management tools: generalization, integration and configuration’, International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 3 (3), pp. 1-19.
• Phaal, R., Farrukh, C.J.P. and Probert, D.R. (2006), 'Technology management tools: concept, development and application', Technovation, 26(3), pp. 336-344.

Conference papers

• Chaskel, C., Phaal, R. and Probert, D. (2012) ‘Linking strategic planning with technology and product management – the role of processes and tools’, R&D Management Conference, Grenoble, 23-25 May.
• Routley, M., Phaal, R., Ford, S., O’Sullivan, E., Athanassopoulou and Probert, D. (2011), ‘Tools to assist with navigating industrial emergence’, Proceedings of the 5^th European Conference on Management of Technology (EuroMOT), Tampere, Finland, 18-20 September.
• Kerr, C.I., Phaal, R. and Probert, D.R., (2011), ‘A toolkit for the strategic planning of fleet transitions and upgrades in complex product-service systems’, 9^th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR), 6-8 September, Glasgow. In Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXV, Ed. D.K. Harrison, B.M. Wood and D. Evans, Glasgow Caledonian University, ISBN 9781905866564 pp. 87-92.
• Kerr, C., Farrukh, C., Phaal, R. and Probert, D. (2011), ‘A philosophical stance on developing industrially relevant strategic technology management toolkits’, Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 31 July – 4 August, Portland OR.
• Keltsch, J.-N., Probert, D.R. and Phaal, R. (2011), ‘A process for configuring technology management tools’, International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM), Warsaw, 12-15 June.
• Farrukh, C.J.P., Phaal, R. and Probert, D.R. (2001), 'Industrial practice in technology planning - implications for a useful tool catalogue for technology management',Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET '01), Portland, 29 July - 2 August.
• Phaal, R., Farrukh, C.J.P. and Probert, D.R. (2000), 'Tools for technology management - structure, organisation and integration', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT), 12-15 November, Singapore.
• Farrukh, C.J.P., Phaal, R. and Probert, D.R. (1999), 'Tools for technology management: dimensions and issues, Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 25-29 July, Portland.
• Paterson, C.J., Phaal, R., Probert, D.R., Gregory, M.J. and Wright, J.R. (1997), 'Developing a tool for the relative valuation of R&D programmes', Proceedings of the 7^th International Forum on Technology Management (IAMOT), Kyoto, 3-7 November.