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TETA-5516 Technology Strategy, 4 cr |
Saku Mäkinen, Marko Seppänen, Ozgur Dedehayir
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| Implementation 1 |
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Passed grade for case study assignment, and passed grade for exam.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
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After completing this course, the student will be able to identify the strategic role of technology and technological decisions in the business context. The student will therefore be able to list and demonstrate different theoretical frameworks that are part of the strategic management technology (disruptive technologies, leadership-followership, VRIO, market-innovation orientation, diamond of technological strategy). In turn, the student will discover the connections between the different theoretical frameworks. During the course, the student will apply the theoretical frameworks to analyze a case company with respect to its technological strategy, while participating in a group assignment.
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | External technological assessment: - evolution of technology | - technological environment of organizations - evolution of industries - technologies in systemic industries - disruptive technologies | - population ecology |
| 2. | Internal technological assessment - evolution of technology | - VRIO | - core technological competence |
| 3. | Technological strategy and competition: - technology for competitive advantage | - technological pioneering - leadership versus followership | - market-innovation orientation - Hambrick’s diamond in technological strategy formulation |
The course grade will be based on an exam and the group assignment. If the student demonstrates good understanding of the core content, the student may pass the course with the grade 3. In order to achieve grade 4, the student must demonstrate greater competency, for example, with respect to the points specified in column “Complementary knowledge”. The student may achieve grade 5, if the student demonstrates excellent command of the course contents and demonstrate competence in the points specified in column “Specialist knowledge”. If there are minor shortcomings regarding the core content, the student may receive the grade 1 or 2, depending on the number of flaws. If there are significant shortcomings regarding core content, the student will not pass the course.
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Journal | Are you sure you have a strategy? | Hambrick D. C, Fredrickson J. W. | Hambrick D. C, Fredrickson J. W. 2001. Are you sure you have a strategy? Academy of Management Executive 15(4): 48-59 | English | |||
| Journal | Building a technology strategy. | Lanigan, M. J. | English | ||||
| Journal | Innovation or customer orientation? An empirical investigation. | Berthon, P., Hulbert, J. M., & Pitt, L. | English | ||||
| Journal | Patterns in the Evolution of Product Competition. | Christensen C. M. | English | ||||
| Journal | Technology Hype Cycle | Jackie Fenn | English | ||||
| Journal | The financial implications of fit between competitive strategy and innovation types and sources. | Zahra, S. A. & Covin, J. G. | English | ||||
| Journal | Toward a Systematic Framework for Research on Dominant Designs, Technological Innovations, and Industrial Change. | Murmann, J. P. & Frenken, K. | English |
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| TETA-1506 Technology Management | Advisable |
There is no equivalence with any other courses
| Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation | |
| Implementation 1 | The aim of the course is firstly to prepare students to analyze the competitive position of the organization from the perspectives of business and technology strategy. Secondly, the course aims to prepare students to identify different organizational and environmental factors and subsequently analytically assess different positioning options, leading to the selection of strategic decisions which prepare the organization to undertake competitive actions in the position chosen. In addition, students will familiarize themselves with technology management practices and their problematics in a manner that students can assess, compare, select as well as exploit technologies in order to reach the organization's objectives. | Lectures Practical works |
Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 % |