Conveners
Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized world: Session 1
- Jan Harm Pretorius (University of Johannesburg,)
Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized world: Session 2
- Marthinus Pretorius (Graduate School of Technology Management, University of Pretoria)
Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized world: Session 3
- Noritomo Ouchi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized world: Session 4
- David Bennett (Chalmers University of Technology)
Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized world: Session 5
- Harm-Jan Steenhuis (Hawaii Pacific University)
Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized world: Session 6
- Vermeulen Andre (University Of Johannesburg)
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Prof. Pretorius Jan-Harm C (University Of Johannesburg), Dr Vermeulen Andre (University Of Johannesburg)16/05/2017, 10:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Organisations in South Africa ever more than before need Total Quality Management (TQM) in terms of organisational culture and supply chain system thinking in providing outstanding products and services to their customers. Although TQM has been proposed to improve organisational performance it is perceived that some organisations have not accomplished much over the years. Accomplishing TQM...Go to contribution page
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Prof. HSINNING SU (Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan), Prof. PEICHUN LEE (International School of Technology and Management, Feng Chia University)16/05/2017, 10:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldPresentation only (Category B)This paper explores technology resilience of high-tech industry by examining the process from technology decline to resilience. There are three research questions raised and answered by this paper: 1) Why some high-tech industries enter technological crises while others are less vulnerable? 2) Why some high-tech industries suffer more from technological crises? 3) Why some high-tech industries...Go to contribution page
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Mr Abhichata Chaisakdiyod (School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China)16/05/2017, 11:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Innovation is commonly recognized as the practice of implementing an idea which wholly encompasses series of processes in a firm. At the middle of the series, manufacture resides and connects R&D with marketing activities. We regard that manufacture acts out โa bottle neckโ which can either leverage or retard a firmโs innovation output, depending on its capability. This paper, therefore,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jina Kang (Seoul National University)16/05/2017, 11:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldPresentation only (Category B)In high tech industries, the constant threat of technological obsolescence forces companies to renew their core technological portfolio in order to build up and maintain competitive advantages. Due to limitations of internal R&D, many firms employ external knowledge sourcing strategies to facilitate changes of their technological portfolio. Among the various external knowledge sourcing...Go to contribution page
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Alexander POGANY (BMVIT)16/05/2017, 15:30
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Mr Mthandeni Langa (University of Johannesburg)16/05/2017, 15:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)In this article, it is argued that the lack of consistent information technology (IT) and organisational strategies heightens the proclivity to cancel IT initiatives. Organisational strategy loosely conveys a compounded perspective pertaining to business and organisational strategies. Business, IT and organisational strategies logically hinge on efficient enterprise IT integration concepts...Go to contribution page
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Dr Claudia Jimenez (Proffesor, National University of Colombia)16/05/2017, 16:36Knowledge managementPresentation only (Category B)The amount of available data has been increasing at a very high speed in the arising digital world. As ever, people wants to get the most possible profit of data. In this sense, in recent years, technologies of Business Intelligence (BI) have been receiving special attention because we need to convert data into useful information and new knowledge. Data Mining (DM) constitutes the core of any...Go to contribution page
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Mr Diego Monteiro (INPE)17/05/2017, 10:30Management of specific emerging technologiesPresentation only (Category B)Spatiotemporal data is everywhere, being gathered from different devices such as Earth Observation and GPS satellites, sensor networks and mobile gadgets. Data collected from those devices might contain valuable information about different subjects, such as weather monitoring or mobility. Among these themes, moving object trajectory data has a particular interest in this work. Moving object...Go to contribution page
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Mr Rami Darwish (KTH -The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm)17/05/2017, 10:52Management of specific emerging technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Business model (BM) design is essential to accommodate new technologies to reach full commercial scale. However, BM design is difficult (Teece 2010; Chesbrough 2010). The state of the art literature on business models scrutinized BM design sources of difficulty from an intra-organizational perspective (Sund et al. 2016; Chesbrough 2010; Teece 2010; Osterwalder et al. 2005; Amit & Zott 2001)....Go to contribution page
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Raphael Beckers (Prostep AG)17/05/2017, 11:14Product and service developmentResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This paper provides a novel approach for agile Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture Models in engineering collaboration in the automotive industry. Emergent behavior is behavior of a system that does not depend on its individual parts, but on their relationships to one another. Such behavior exists in biological systems, physical systems as well as in the human performance. It...Go to contribution page
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Dr Noritomo Ouchi (Aoyama Gakuin University)17/05/2017, 11:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The strategy utilizing direct and indirect network effects has attracted attention. Direct network effects mean that the value of a good for the consumer is positively influenced by an increase in the number of users. Indirect network effects mean that the value of a good for the consumer is positively influenced by an attractive offer of complements. In markets with network effects, the first...Go to contribution page
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Mr Torben Tambo (Aarhus University)17/05/2017, 13:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Information technology (IT) is at the heart of digitisation of existing business models and dominates in the innovation efforts of many industries. IT has until now in many ways been regarded as exempted from the structuration and automation represented by IT. The IT4IT framework released by The Open Group in October 2015 suggests to a major change. IT has to be governed and structured along...Go to contribution page
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Mr Bruno Lindorfer (BUSINESS UPPER AUSTRIA)17/05/2017, 13:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)In the paper the two aspects of Management of Technologies (โMoTโ) are lined out: a) Management of Technologies for Regions and Countries b) Management of the Technology Portfolio for Enterprises Strategic MoT for regions and countries is done to reinforce the competitiveness of the region in the ever harder global completion to ensure employment, the standard of living, social welfare and...Go to contribution page
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Christina Koenig (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT)17/05/2017, 14:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The application of effective, on the companyโs needs adapted technologies is a key factor for competitiveness and economic success. To ensure an early identification of emerging technologies, of changes in existing technologies or of related changes in the market's structures and participants many companies conduct technology intelligence (TI) activities. Technology monitoring is one base...Go to contribution page
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Mr Daniel Kiel (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nรผrnberg, Chair of Industrial Management)17/05/2017, 14:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)โIndustry 4.0โ or the โIndustrial Internet of Thingsโ (IIoT) refers to a new paradigm of digitized and connected industrial manufacturing. Its core is based on Internet of Things technologies, which enable real-time capable, smart, horizontal and vertical interconnectedness of people, machines, objects as well as information and communication systems for the dynamic management of complex...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Elzbieta Krawczyk-Dembicka (Bialystok University of Technology)17/05/2017, 15:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Technology management is a crucial issue for any company; a technology applied to the company determines its competitiveness and long-term development. At the same time this is a field with many dilemmas and hard decisions for managers. An ability to operate effectively in this area eventually gives a company many advantages. The literature from this field proposes models and approaches, which...Go to contribution page
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Mr Dane GOVENDER (University of Johannesburg)17/05/2017, 15:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Optimization of the steel industry in order to deliver on competitiveness includes many factors ranging from process improvements to strategic initiatives. This research focuses on a strategic approach with a focus on process specific initiatives. The strategic initiative relates to the two models of operations, Make-To-Stock (MTS) and Make-To-Order (MTO). This research focuses on...Go to contribution page
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Mr Harald Wipfler (Graz University of Technology, Institute of General Management and Organization)17/05/2017, 16:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Firms increasingly depend on technological advancements and need to be able to adapt to technological shifts. However, path-dependent processes may cause lock-in situations which hinder the adoption of more efficient technological options. In a path-dependent process small events trigger positive feedback loops which gradually reduce alternative options until a pattern becomes dominant. A...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Harm-Jan Steenhuis (Hawaii Pacific University)17/05/2017, 16:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Despite the often stated move from manufacturing to a service orientation, manufacturing is still an important part of the economy for many countries often accounting for 30% or more of the total economy. However, manufacturing in countries such as the U.S. has been faced with challenges, for example in terms of employment. On the one hand, even though the manufacturing output in for example...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Hideho TANAKA (Shibaura Institute of Technology)18/05/2017, 10:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldPresentation only (Category B)Technological evolution brings big change in business and in many cases, just few companies can survive such situation. Digitalization drove out photographic film from the market and most of film makers including Eastman Kodak failed to change its business portfolio and survive. One of the exceptions is Fuji Film. There are many comparing analysis of management aspect of Kodak and Fuji after...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Imke De Kock (Stellenbosch University)18/05/2017, 10:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The ever-increasing pressure to fulfil the promise of sustainable development, the ever-moving target of sustainability, and the ever-changing definition of โsustainable futuresโ calls for continuous, radical and fundamental research into our ability to understand the complex interactions between societal and technological elements in socio-technical systems. This paper presents the...Go to contribution page
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Mr James Thaba (CSIR)18/05/2017, 11:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The evolution of warfare, and its increasing complexity has made planning for future deployments more difficult. The need to plan for more eventualities makes it more complex. The need for decision support tools and technologies to assist capability planners make more sound decisions has become more critical. Many defence forces have made a conscious decision to ditch threat based planning...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Pretorius Jan-Harm. C (University Of Johannesburg), Dr Vermeulen Andre (University Of Johannesburg)18/05/2017, 11:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Organisational market competiveness goes beyond reengineering and continuous improvement initiatives on supply chain processes. It requires that organisations should seek and adopt Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which is designed to deliver a beyond price-based outlook upon sourcing decisions, TCO allows that all possible costs elements incurable during the acquired services and / or productsโ...Go to contribution page