Strategic Management of Technological Innovation
Y52.3310
Credit:
Management and Information Technology
This course is designed to enable the potential manager to deal with the demands of strategic planning in a technology-driven organization. It addresses such concerns as minimizing the R&D cycle, assuring smooth transition from design to production, innovation streams, and technology and business strategy. To study this process, the course utilizes research and tools from the fields of economics, strategy, and organizational theory. While based in research, the course is oriented towards the practical management of technology. It is heavily case-oriented and involves student participation so that students can focus on real world decisions such as allocation of resources, managing of complex activities, and management of teams at various levels within the organization. Topics include: strategic maneuvering, the technology-product relationship; technology cycles and discontinuities; managing discontinuous innovation; implementing new designs; linking strategy and innovation; and building organizations? capacity to innovate. Upon completion of the course, students will understand the role technological innovation plays in the competitive dynamics of industries; understand the basic information needed to formulate technology strategies; identify and explain the various forms of collaboration and the tradeoffs associated with each of them; acquire the basic tools necessary to analyze a company's positioning and strategies; provide an understanding of the metrics used to evaluate new product effectiveness and innovation performance.
To register for this course you must be an admitted student in an NYU credit or degree program or have special student status. Admitted NYU credit or degree students may visit NYUHome to register through ALBERT. To apply to an NYU-SCPS credit or degree program, call (212) 998-7100.
