Strategic Management of Technological Learning

 Content: Concept of Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Interdisciplinary Overview of Decision-Making Theories --
 Strategic Decision Making: Essence of Strategic Management of Technology --
 Overview of Decision- and Strategy-Making Schools --
 Analytic or Synoptic School of Decision Making --
 Experiential or Incremental School of Decision Making --
 Problem Definition --
 Identification, Evaluation, and Selection of Alternatives --
 Implementation --
 Design School of Strategy Making --
 Planning School of Strategy Making --
 Emergent Learning and Deliberate Planning or ''Austrian'' School of Strategy Making --
 Concept of Paradigms in Decision Making --
 Analytic Paradigm --
 Cybernetic Paradigm --
 Cognitive Paradigm --
 Concepts of Culture, Feedback, and Learning in Decision Making and Strategy Crafting --
 Culture As A Medium for Learning --
 Concept of Organizational Culture from Three Perspectives: Integration, Differentiation, and Fragmentation --
 Organizational Culture as a Facilitator/Inhibitor of Technological Learning: A Metaculture Perspective --
 Feedback as a Tool for Learning --
 Interdisciplinary Overview --
 Multilayered Feedback and Strategic Decision Making --
 Feedback and Self-Organization in the Strategic Management of Technology --
 Learning: Autonomy and Responsibility --
 Interdisciplinary Overview --
 Multiple-Level Learning: Individual, Group, Intraorganizational, Interorganizational, and Supraorganizational --
 Multiple-Loop Learning: Operational, Tactical, Strategic, and Metastrategic.
 Abstract:             
              How do companies such as BMW, Airbus Industrie, and BASF leverage technology and learn to thrive where others fail? This book gives the reader a tool for gaining short-term, case-specific insight and long-term industry-wide understanding of the best technology, innovation, and knowledge management.                 Read more...