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In the field of Technology and Innovation Management, several key principles have been identified in literature. These include technology development, technology improvement, technology leadership, technology partnerships and supplier participation, technology pioneering, technological integration, technological value and technology standards. Many of these key principles are based on actions that...
Manufacturing institutions are increasingly adopting and implementing a servitization strategy directed at enhancing their revenue streams and gaining a competitive advantage in a highly competitive and extremely turbulent marketplace. The focus of this paper is directed at gaining an understanding of (1) the various interactive systems that assume relevance in the creation and execution of the servitization...
The focus of this paper is directed at gaining an insight into services strategy formulation and implementation, with specific reference to the integration of the diverse systems involved. These systems were identified in a previous paper presented at the 2014 PICMET conference entitled “Servitization: An Integrated strategic and operational systems framework”. A key difficulty encountered in practice...
This research emanates from a systems‐oriented process of investigation into the educational approach of masters in engineering management programmes in order to find ways to improve student through‐put rate and the quality of learning. The document describes the educational process, with specific emphasis on student preparedness, including the value and impact of a pivotal preparation test. This...
The global marketplace is increasingly characterised as being both turbulent and extremely competitive in nature. It is within this context that the servitization strategy assumes relevance in positioning traditional manufacturing institutions to gain a strategic advantage and enhance their revenue streams. Based on a multi-disciplinary literature review a strategic and operational systems framework...
Within the literature the people or human element in defining the concept “technology” is frequently encountered and central thereto is the importance of their role from a behavioural perspective in managing technology. In defining the concept “organizational” culture its role as a perceptual and behavioural determinant assumes relevance, implying that it has a role to play in technology management...
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