Strategic Management in Technology Oriented Company

Program Outline


Below is an outline of the Strategic Management in the Technology Oriented Company Executive Program. The program runs over two complete days. The outline excludes cases and group work that is interspersed throughout the program.

Strategy in the Technological Context

• The Basics of Strategy
• Technology Strategy Concepts
• Strategy in a Technological Context

• Cohen, Wesley and Daniel Levinthal (1990) Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation, Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 128-152.
• Drucker, Peter (1985) The Discipline of Innovation, Harvard Business Review, 63, May/June, 67-72.
• Henderson, Rebecca and Kim Clark (1990) Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms, Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 9-30.

• Wheelwright, Steven and Kim Clark (1992a) Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development, Harvard Business Review, 70, March/April.
• Wheelwright, Steven and Kim Clark (1992b) Accelerating the Design-Build-Test cycle for Effective Product Development, in Revolutionizing Product Development, New York: Free Press.
• Wheelwright, Steven and W. Earl Sasser (1989) The New Product Development Map, Harvard Business Review, 67, May/June.

• Hauser, John and thomas Clausing (1988) The House of Quality, Harvard Business Review, 66, May/June.
• Hauser, John (1993) How Puritan-Bennett Used the House of Quality, Sloan Management Review, 34, Spring, 61-70.

• Forecasting Technological Change
• Scenarios and the Delphi Technique

• Wack, P (1985a) Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead, Harvard Business Review, 63, September/October, 73-89.
• Wack, P (1985b) Scenarios: Shooting the Rapids, Harvard Business Review, 63, November/December, 139-150.

• Dunphy, Dexter and Doug Stace (1990) Strategies for Organizational Transition, in Under New Management, McGraw Hill, 65-93.