Books in the World Scientific Series In R&d Management series

 This book is the authoritative reference for technology roadmapping, written by authors known worldwide for their expertise on the subject. The book has four parts. The objective of the first part is to introduce established technology management frameworks, to highlight the overall ecosystem for the use of technology roadmaps. This part provides international perspectives as well as examples from industrial organizations and government agencies. The second part provides a toolkit presented through applications and case studies, and provides a review of methods complimentary to technology roadmapping. The tools discussed include technology assessment, technology forecasting and technology intelligence analysis. The objective of this part is to provide professionals with the tools required to gather the essential data for the roadmapping project. Part three presents proven frameworks for technology roadmapping written by those who have developed practical approaches for various organizations. This part provides the know-how for developing and executing technology roadmaps. The final section presents applications demonstrating the use of this powerful tool, providing regional, government and industrial applications. The knowledge base includes projects from Europe, Asia and the Americas.

This book captures recent research on managing mobile technologies. It provides a handbook-style reference to professionals in different industries to help them manage the very latest technologies that have become a part of every business today.The book reviews multiple perspectives of the challenges brought by the introduction of mobile technologies into our lives. The technical perspective covers major constructs at play; the organizational perspective reviews international cases; and the personal perspective investigates the adoption of emerging applications and their impact.By reviewing multiple perspectives, readers will be able to adopt a tool to manage the complexities and challenges brought by the mobile technologies.

This book addresses the issue of modern medical innovations management through an inductive approach by looking into cases before putting forward solutions in terms of strategies and tools. It provides a model for the designing and implementation of effective healthcare technology management (HTM) systems in hospitals and healthcare provider settings, as well as promotes a new method of analysis of hospital organization for decision-making regarding technology to show how systematic management using a strategy that balances bottom-up and top-down driven innovations, can deliver better medical technological advances.Managing Medical Technological Innovations is organized in three parts. Part 1 covers innovation strategies, laying the groundwork and concepts in design thinking. Part 2 follows by presenting the tools available for implementation. And finally, Part 3 uses the case studies of pharmaceutical firms in China and hospital medical record management in Holland to illustrate how these ideas and methodologies have been applied.This book is suitable for healthcare administrators, management, and IT personnel involved in the planning, expansion and maintaining of healthcare technology management and organisation seeking a reference with most recent approaches and cases from an international context; researchers seeking new approaches to apply to emerging medical technologies in different regions; and graduate students who are either doing their research or taking introductory as well as advanced courses in engineering and technology management in different parts of the world.