Differences between Technology Management Principles and Practices and those found in Traditional Business Management Environments



Differences between Technology Management Principles and Practices and those found in Traditional Business Management Environments

Introduction

In the context of this discourse, technology is conceived as knowledge applied in nearly all human activities. This knowledge has played an important role in the material and cultural achievements, and the evolution of society. In a fundamental sense, the technology determines the shape or configuration of artificial things and reconfiguration and transformation of natural (Li, Peters, Richardson & Weidenmier Watson, 2012). "The first function of technology and immediate condition of its usefulness is to give a definite shape and a set of artificial materials or a specific human activity". In its multiple manifestations, technology expands the reach and power of human activity. The technology makes it possible to do what had not been done before, because it can "expand and push the limits of the human body and organic compensate its fragility and vulnerability" (Murata & Katayama, 2010). In this sense, the technology becomes a character or instrumental means to facilitate human performance, ease of performance or allow you to perform tasks beyond their human capabilities. Makes possible activities that even dream man, or was a utopia (Haines & Lafleur, 2008). The technology is present in most of the spectrum of human activities, from the simple, daily and domestic, as the elaboration and preparation of food, to the most sophisticated and organized today for industrial production or used in services such as surgical procedures using laser technology, gene therapy or combined with magnetic resonance tomography.

Discussion & Analyses

More formally known, is the definition of technology as applied knowledge in the processes of creation, production, marketing, distribution and use or consumption of products and services, and the knowledge used in research and development of these processes (Das & Nair, 2010). They empirical knowledge and scientific nature that refer not only to products, services and physical processes, but also managerial and administrative processes, i.e. knowledge associated with all activities that develops entrepreneurial organization. Implicit in this definition the concept of "technology package", and Porter's theory incorporates in its value chain when it is perceived that any value activity uses technology that everything the company does involves some form of technology (Lehman, 2010). In organizations, knowledge not only have people or is incorporated do on computers, but "also in the form of organizational routines, processes, practices and norms" (Kunsoo, Young Bong & Jungpil, 2011).

The body of knowledge technology as a system configured with its own processes and its own dynamics, in which innovations are the main agents of change (Ransbotham, Mitra & Ramsey, 2012). Are innovations, as systematic and intentional actions for changes, the elements that are at the base of the dynamics of this system. Dynamic expressed in new or improved products or processes and new markets, but also in new human activities or different or improved ways of doing things established (Dong, Johar & Kumar, ...