Strategic Planning

Paper Summary:

This work explores and define plans for organizational technology, including managers and individuals in the use of new and emerging technology.

Outline:
Objective
Overview
Current Technology Assessment
Value Change Analysis
Managing Change
Social Contract
Global Issues
Summary and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The work of Steven Johnson (2003) entitled: "Emerging Technology" published in the Discover magazine states that: "In his classic novel, Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut explains how the world is divided into two types of social organizations: the karass and the granfalloon. A karass is a spontaneously forming group, joined by unpredictable links, that actually gets stuff done - without ever discovering what they are doing...while a granfallloon is a 'false karass', a bureaucratic structure that looks like a team but is 'meaningless' in terms of getting things done. Everyone has undoubtedly experience both types of networks according to Johnson who state that for the largest part of the last 40 years "computers have been on the side of the gransfalloons, good at maintaining bureaucratic structures and blind to more nuanced social interactions. But a new kind of software called social-network mapping promises to change all that."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Alter, Allan E. (2005) Innovation Makes Emerging Technologies Pay Off. CIO Insight. 5 June 2005. Online available at: http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,1826516,00.asp
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