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Increasing Understanding of Technology Management through Challenge Mapping
Author(s) -
Basadur Min,
Potworowski J. Andreé,
Pollice Nicholas,
Fedorowicz Jan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8691.00198
Subject(s) - creativity , knowledge management , technology management , engineering ethics , computer science , management science , business , data science , psychology , engineering , social psychology
The authors seek to clarify what is understood by the management of technology by involving a group of managers in a workshop to identify specifically what they believe to be their critical difficulties and challenges in managing technology. The approach is shown to be a means of enhancing creativity, designed not so much for creating good answers and solutions, but rather for discovering good questions and challenges and for conceptualizing complex issues. Virtually all of the challenges selected as most important had much more to do with leading people to think more innovatively and collaboratively than with new technology itself.