Management of Technology College Notes

Blok 4: Management van technologie




College 1...................................................................................................................................................1
Technology management - Course Information.....................................................................................................1
What is technology management..........................................................................................................................3
Working in teams..................................................................................................................................................4
The business model canvas...................................................................................................................................5
The technology lifecycle........................................................................................................................................6
Kick-off sessie...........................................................................................................................................7
College 2...................................................................................................................................................8



College 1

Technology management - Course Information

Learning by doing
 Assignment 1: Company description
 Assignment 2a: Technology evaluation
 Assignment 2b: Business evaluation
 Assignment 3: Final evaluation, presentation

Teachers: online tutorials

Coaches:
 Kick-off
 In between meetings
 Feedback

Multi-criteria decision making




Assignment 1:
company description

, Assignment 2a: technology evaluation

Assignment 2b: business evaluation

Assignment 3: final evaluation

How will we grade?
 Collaboration coaches and lecturers
 Score model
 Grading days
 Graded in canvas
 Team grades
 Assignment 1-3 and presentation
 Team contract
 Individual grades
 Bonus and malus points
 Individual reflection

How do you get a high grade?
We grade completeness and depth
 Read the assignment questions carefully
 Read the instructions/explanations carefully
 Read the course manual
 Check each other’s work, collaborate

Access to data
 Use high quality information sources - be sure to reference!
o TUD papers and academic sources
o Annual reports
o Information on websites and in newspapers (LexisNexis)
 Do not contact your company (but watch the company interview)
 Estimate (if data are not available - but still use sources where possible and
explain estimates!)
 After you found an answer: raise and answer new questions: why? how?
Note: not all information is readily available. Make and justify choices by estimation.
This is an important academic skill and is part of the learning by doing process.

Format and writing
 In every assignment we grade for lay-out and concise writing
 Use informative tables and figures rather than words
 The limited number of words and the required depth for the answers necessitate
very precise and well-thought answers!
 Respect the word limit  excluded front page, references, appendices
 Any text after the world limit is reached will not be read and graded
 Appendices will not be read and graded
Conduct
 The companies and their cases are real
 You represent a university: companies view your work as work done by the
university
 The company contracts are vary valuable for the universities

Conclusion
 In this course you will set a technology strategy for a real tech company