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Technology-driven companies are hard pressed to stay on top of relentless technology developments and align their technology investments to business needs. Our senior consulting officers have expertise in all areas of technology management and can draw on a large pool of experienced technology, industry, and functional experts. We help companies address critical issues including:
- Identifying future technology pathways and opportunities
- Diagnosing your technology organization's strengths and weaknesses and identify opportunities for improvement
- Effectively transferring technology and know-how throughout the organization
- Improving links between your technology and business strategies
- Balancing long- and short-term technology objectives through portfolio planning
- Stimulating innovation and creativity
- Commercializing new technology.
SRIC-BI has analyzed the successes and failures of many companies in its 30 years of consulting in technology management. Through hundreds of assignments, we have built up a knowledge base of best practices in technology management and gained experience in a wide range of industries, including the energy, chemical and materials, semiconductor, and electronics industries.
Case Studies
Comprehensive Plan for Installing Best Practices in Technology Management
A global player in the refining and petrochemicals business included the delivery and application of "leading-edge" technology as a primary element in its corporate vision. Its chief technology officer engaged SRIC-BI to perform a comprehensive audit of all its technology research, development, sourcing, transfer, and application practices and then create a strategy and phased implementation plan for installing the best practices that fit its culture, resources, and long-term business strategy. SRIC-BI conducted a series of interviews (250) that cut across the entire organization, from CEO to lab-research supervisors, with balanced representation from both technology providers and users. At the same time, SRIC-BI bolstered its technology-management knowledge base by conducting a broad-based benchmarking exercise that included 12 of the world's leading companies in petroleum, chemicals, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. Through a series of strategy and planning workshops, we worked with the client's technology council to select, prioritize, and tailor best practices to form building blocks for a companywide implementation plan. The final deliverable was a joint SRIC-BI and client multiphase plan for installing a unique technology-management process, backed by a transparent set of findings, options for improvement, and a rationale for choices. |
Mechanism to Commercialize Technology
To improve the client's infrastructure and processes for technology-commercialization management, SRIC-BI assisted the client in the following areas:
- Review client's existing system for IP business, including IP management, licensing, spin-offs, and JVs, and benchmark with other institutes internationally.
- Conduct a commercialization-management diagnosis and develop findings and conclusions.
- Develop an improved IP business system, including changes to the organization, processes, performance metrics, and incentive programs.
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Technology Unbundling and Design of a Project-Management System
To develop a knowledge-management system for the client's research facility, the client requested SRIC-BI's assistance in two areas: technology unbundling and design of a project-management system. As part of technology unbundling, SRIC-BI identified core technologies in the electronic-materials areas, reviewed technology trees of the identified core technologies developed by the client, and assessed global positioning of the identified core technologies through a workshop. As part of the design phase, SRIC-BI conducted a project-assessment diagnostic and designed a project-management system based on SRI International's SEAS program. |
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