Assessing and choosing emerging technologies
With scores of new technologies appearing every year, even trained engineers, computer scientists and strategists have difficulty deciding which will survive, be widely adopted or have significant financial paybacks.
Future Value examines the tools and knowledge needed to put emerging technologies into a general framework and view them from a business point-of-view. It explores the many aspects beyond technical readiness that affect the adoption of an emerging technology and analyzes specific barriers to adoption.
This webinar also introduces the Futures Technique — an analytical method that IBM has successfully used to help businesses and industries make better technology investment choices.
Who Will Benefit?
This program is aimed at senior executives, managers, and technical and business professionals who are responsible for making strategic decisions about technology investments. It is especially beneficial to those in financial, strategic, and research positions, as well as cross-functional teams exploring how to measure success.
What You Will Learn
Through online interaction, lecture and case-study discussion, you will:
- Identify the hidden values of emerging technologies
- Recognize barriers to technological adoption and implementation
- Explore future goals and steps to successful technological adoption
- Apply the Futures Technique methodology to assess the value of technology initiatives
- Build a common vocabulary of objectives among cross-discipline team members to foster teamwork
Course Outline
This webinar begins at 9 a.m. EST and ends around 5 p.m. EST. These times can be adjusted, subject to class and faculty availability, please contact us at EBI to discuss.
Morning - Why Emerging Technologies Matter
- Surveying trends and strategic business issues that determine investment in new technologies
- Using the Clustering method for comparing and contrasting similar technologies
- Clustering Workshop Results - Focus on technology implications highlighted by participants
- Assessing Technologies: Analyzing the potential of an emerging technology in terms of how mature it is technically and how well it fulfills the needs of users, enterprises and society
- Mapping and comparing technologies to determine their value within each participants’ industry
Afternoon – Putting It All Together
- Assessment Workshop: Review of participant-chosen new technologies and their individual, social, business, and technological contexts
- Focus on Capabilities: Connecting visions with technologies via capabilities to create value
- Resources: Where to learn more
Course Leaders
Steve Roehm brings his experience as a CIO of Worldwide Distribution for IBM, strategy and planning executive positions, and many finance, sales management, and market support jobs to teaching this course. He is a Senior Consulting Faculty member who also works in the areas of strategy, innovation, scenario planning, and CIO issues and opportunities.
Tom Curtin has worked as an application development manager and has spent many years teaching and developing programs for senior client executives and IBM business partners about business strategy and information technology strategy and management. He is an EBI Consulting Faculty member.
Mark Feeley has worked as a facilitator and consultant with a number of organizations in identifying creative and divergent techniques in problem/opportunity definition, idea generation, idea selection and implementation. He is certified and experienced in several leading creativity and innovation tools.
Peter Andrews has spent a career bridging the gap between technical capabilities and the bottom line. He provides advice on emerging technologies both to IBM and to IBM’s clients.
Client Testimonials
“A very useful course to think of how to nurture and analyze ideas from different perspectives and angles.” -Ching Zhou, IBM Research