Strategic Planning Decisions in the High Tech Industry

The scale and complexity of research and practices of open innovation mandate a correspondingly sophisticated form of decision making. Strategic Planning Decisions brings together a number of tools that ease the decision process in technology companies, providing both conceptual frameworks and practical applications.

1.Strategic Planning Decisions: An Overview.- PART I.Strategic Approaches.- 2.No Escape from the Dominant Theories: The Analysis of Intellectual Pillars of Technology Management in Developing Countries.- 3.Ontology- and Function-based Technology Model for decision making in new Product Development.- 4.Strategic Foresight Methodology to Identifying Business Opportunities and Technology Trends.- 5.Strategic Planning for Research Institutions.- 6.Platform Emergence in Double Unknown.- 7.Imovator's Dilemma: How to Decide When to be Offensive and When to be Defensive?.- 8.Technology Acquisition by Collaboration: A Theoretical Framework.- PART II. Tactical Approaches.- 9.Decision-making for New Technology: A multi-actor, multi-objective Method.- 10.Evaluating and Communicating the Value of Technology: Concept and Practice.- 11.The Role of Policy Intervention for Technology Management.- 12.Utilizing Risk Analysis and Scenario Planning for Technology Roadmapping.- 13.Application of Six Sigma Methodology and Use of Data in Decision-Making in the Fixed Line Planning Process.