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-Practical application of knowledge and tools to aid human endeavors.

-Technology is the knowledge,product,processes,tools,and systems.

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Directing and controlling organizations to meet objectives.Include planning,organizing,staffing,motivating and controlling functions.

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Set of management discipline focused on managing technology to create competitive advantage through integrated planning, optimization, and operation of technological processes.

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Rapid technological change demands a cross-disciplinary approach to leverage opportunities and stay competitive. Product life cycles have shortened, and organizations must maximize competitiveness using new technologies.

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Links science, engineering, and management disciplines. Key factors influencing competitive enterprise include economic systems, technical capabilities, and trade conditions.

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-The drivers of change in the environment.

-The beneficiaries of change initiated by others.

-The facilitators of technology development.

-The victims of technology change.

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Firms must decide whether to be leaders or followers, develop or buy technology, and determine the scope or services and scale of their offerings.

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This involves innovation, as shown in the iBOT case, which required cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineers, financial experts, and marketers to develop a wheelchair capable of climbing stairs.

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-Speed of technological change

-Change in scope

-Changes in competition

-Trade blocs

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Technologies are classified into new, emerging, high, medium, low, and appropriate technology based on their maturity, level of sophistication, and suitability for different environments.

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Tacit Technology:

-Knowledge that is not easily explain.

-No standard way of prensenting it.

-Develop by learning through experience.

Codified Technology:

-people know how to work it but might not fully understand why

﻿-it's easier, clearer and faster to share once it's written down for formalized

-full understanding requires knowing both written(codified) and unwritten (tacit) knowledge

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21/10/2024 Monday - CHAPTER 2 Components of 
Technology

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21/10/2024 Monday - CHAPTER 2 Components of 
Technology

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1.Technoware -Physical technologies such as tools, machinery, and equipment that enhance human abilities to carry out transformation operations.

2.Humanware -The skills, knowledge, and expertise of individuals required to operate, maintain, and enhance technoware.

3.Orgaware- Organizational practices and frameworks that coordinate productive activities to achieve desired results, including management techniques for planning, quality control, and performance evaluation.

4.Inforware-Documented knowledge such as specifications, manuals, and data that improve decision-making and operations, facilitating efficient use of technoware and humanware.

*Technoware In Process Technology:

-The machines needed for the process

-The software needed to operationalise the machines 

-The tools needed to maintain the machines 

-The spare parts needed to repair the machines

Technoware comprises :-material transformation subsystem

-information processing subsystem

*Humanware In Process Technology:

-"contact humanware" - refers to the skills of operators to operate the technoware  -"support humanware" - refers to the maintenance crew and indirect technoware use facilitators such as software specialists (for CNC machines).

*Orgaware In Process Technology:

-Work conventions

-Work organizations

-Work facilitation

-Work evaluation

-Work modification

*Inforware In Process Technology:

-Technoware-specific inforware (TSI)

-Humanware-specific inforware (HSI)

-Orgaware-specific inforware (OSI)

>Product Technology:

-Product design inforware

-Product usage inforware

~Product design inforware? 

-Design foundation inforware (dfi)

-Design backup inforware (dbi)

- Design specifications inforware (dsi)

~Product usage inforware?

- Product operating inforware (poi)

-Product maintenance inforware (pmi)

-Product performance –enhancing inforware (ppi)