The contribution of technology selection to core competencies

Torkkeli, Marko; Tuominen, Markku

doi:10.1016/s0925-5273(01)00227-4

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“…Considering the best and worst criteria in the BWM, the method suggests comparing these criteria to others. Therefore, after a brainstorming session where AB and AW vectors where suggested as AB = [1, 3,6] and AW = [7, 4, 1] the weights were then obtained by solving (Formula (5)) as W 1 = 0.62, W 2 = 0.29, W 3 = 0.09. The applied model is demonstrated as below: minξ L subject to :…”

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A Novel Hybrid Approach for Technology Selection in the Information Technology Industry

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High-tech companies are rapidly growing in the world. Research and development (hereafter R&D) department strength is the main asset that allows a firm to achieve a competitive advantage in high-tech businesses. The allocated budget to this sector is finite; thus, integration, human resource, risk and budget limitations should be considered to choose the most valuable project in the best portion of time. This paper investigates a case study from a high-tech company in Iran to prioritize the most attractive technologies for the R&D department. The case consists of twenty three technology options and the goal is to find the most attractive projects to sort them out for implementation in the R&D department. In this research, scholars proposed the best-worst method (henceforth BWM) to find the weight of the criteria of the attractive technologies in first step and utilize the newly developed method total area based on orthogonal vectors (henceforward TAOV) to sort the selected technologies based upon the identified criteria. Project integration is one of the least-noticed subjects in scientific papers; therefore, the researchers presented a zero or one linear programming (ZOLP) model to optimize and schedule the implementation procedure on the project risk, budget and time limitation simultaneously. The results indicate that starting few but attractive projects in the first years and postponing the rest to the future, helps a firm to manage funds and gain profit with the least amount of risk.

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“…In such cases, technology selection (henceforth TS) becomes one of the most challenging processes of MOT [6], and should be approached strategically [7]. Linking strategy to technology has been an issue in recent years, due to a novel model developed by [8] (see Figure 1).…”

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“…Research issues are focussed on core and organisational competencies, strategic management of R&D, innovation management and "competencies destroying" [34], [35]. Some authors are interested in relationships between products and manufacturing systems life cycles and core competence changes: Torkkeli and Tuominen [36]point out that the opportunities to build core competencies should be systematically assessed when selecting technologies and propose a method to clarify the impact of technology selection on core competencies. Especially, high-technological competencies of R&D involved in innovation projects enhance the design of new functionalities in products and industrial processes and provide the company with a competitive advantage.…”

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“…Even if the authors working on the collaborative design are not interested explicitly in modelling competence, their results are useful to structure collective competence and to improve the performance of design processes. According to Torkkeli and Tuominen [36],"the application of the technological capabilities of R&D in specific innovation projects to produce new functionalities in products and processes depends on complex coordination processes". Some relevant papers are presented below.…”

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Formalisation and use of competencies for industrial performance optimisation: A survey

Boucher

Bonjour

Grabot³

2007

Computers in Industry

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. Formalisation and use of competencies for industrial performance optimisation : a survey.. Computers in Industry, Elsevier, 2007, 58 (2) Abstract. For many years, industrial performance has been implicitly considered as deriving from the optimisation of technological and material resources (machines, inventories,...), made possible by centralized organisations. The topical requirements for reactive and flexible industrial systems have progressively reintroduced the human workforce as the main source of industrial performance. Making this paradigm operational requires the identification and careful formalisation of the link between human resource and industrial performance, through concepts like skills, competencies or know-how. This paper provides a general survey of the formalisation and integration of competence-oriented concepts within enterprise information systems and decision systems, aiming at providing new methods and tools for performance management.

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“…For Tobias (2003): "competency is a set of personal characteristics (knowledge, skills, abilities) which are relatively stable across different situations" and Rosemary (2000) defines competency as "the degree to which individuals can apply the skills and knowledge associated with a profession to the full range of situations that fall within the domain of that particular profession". Torkkeli (2002) considers competency as cross-functional integration and coordination of capabilities. Capabilities refer to the actor's (or enterprise's) ability to exploit its resources.…”

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A Fuzzy Approach for Competency Characterisation Based on a Work Situation Analysis

Belkadi¹,

Bonjour²,

Dulmet³

2006

IFAC Proceedings Volumes

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The purpose of this work is to give a decision support to meet requirements in competencies management. We assume that the building, the development, and the use of each competency need the concurrence of different kinds of interactions in the real work situation. The competency characteristics can be evaluated by an expert within an analysis of work situation, to get an interpretation of these interactions. In this sense, we propose a qualitative method of competency characterisation based on a formal representation of the situation. The aim of this paper is not to give all mathematical details of a fuzzy approach but rather to present how qualitative knowledge about the situation can be used to characterise associated competency.

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The contribution of technology selection to core competencies

Cited by 121 publications

References 18 publications

A Novel Hybrid Approach for Technology Selection in the Information Technology Industry

A Novel Hybrid Approach for Technology Selection in the Information Technology Industry

Formalisation and use of competencies for industrial performance optimisation: A survey

A Fuzzy Approach for Competency Characterisation Based on a Work Situation Analysis

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