The new paradigm of MOT

1. The new paradigm of MOT The management dimension

2. Demands on MOT • Integration between technology and corporate strategy • Acquisition and exploitation of technology • Evaluation of technology • Technology transfer • Speedy NPD cycle • Management of complex project • Management of technological applications • Deployment of technology talents

3. New issues surrounding MOT • MOT on the efficiency of service sector • MOT for globalization • MOT on the IT/IS effectiveness • Beyond the R&D management • Foster the technology enablers • Connect serially the cooperative stages of technology life cycle

4. Fundamentals of MOT • Resources deployment • Business environment • Organizational structure • Project planning & management • Human resource/intellectual management

5. Performance evaluation before resource deployment • Cost/quality/positioning/competition performance • Technology potential and competitiveness • R&D performance • Determine the synergy of technology portfolio • Evaluate the success and fallacy of collaborative alliance

6. Industrial transformation in the demanding MOT era • Short life cycle • Continuous-wave innovations • Co-opetition • Unpredictable global market • Quality critics • Customized & flexible production • Agile outsourcing organization structure

7. Impacts on/from the business environment • Regulation & deregulation • User involvement • User participation and resistance • Interested party assimilation • Environmentalism

8. Organizational restructuring • Matching with the style of technological work/production • Phase to the NDP evolution • Enable technological transfer inward and outward

9. Project management • Managing knowledge workers • Project matrix facilitators • Innovation incubation & incentive • Knowledge management • R&D personnel discipline

10. HR management • Technological changes on recruiting, staffing, and promotion • Training and continuous learning • Technology gatekeeper • Internal entrepreneurship and spin-off • Technological impact on workers’ social lives and psychology

11. MOT guiding principles • Value creation • Quality • Response capability • Flexibility • Innovation • Integration • Team • Equity

12. Management paradigm changes • Industrial revolution in the 18th century— Management on man-machine transformation • The middle period of 19th century—specialization, modularization and parts production • The later period of 19th century—Management by accounting, by recording the production information • The turning years of 1900s—scientific analysis of working process and the social psychological dimension of workers • The beginning period of 20th century—the assembly production by standardized parts and under a planned architecture

13. Management paradigm changes (2) • The middle period of 20th century—Toyota system for lean production • After 1960s—computer aided manufacturing, service, government. Etc. • In the late period of 20th century—massive diffusion of civil technologies under DCs’ and NICs’ diffusion-oriented industry policies • After 1990s, systemic R&D research, inter-disciplines, speedy commercialization, global R&D team

14. The coming challenges on MOT • Technology • Complexity, fusion, IT & telecom convergence, emerging tech (Bio- & Nana-) • Environment • IPRs enforcement, technology markets, entrepreneurship • Communication & Collaboration • Localization, culture, user involvement , government facilitator • Industrial strategy • Managing changes and forecasting • Organization • Temporary, visual organization, horizontal integration, knowledge capital, indigenous customization • Finance market • Venture capital for exploiting emerging technology, risk sharing and benefit appropriability • Education • Multi-disciplined managers, university reform