Innovate by acquiring the right technological skills

Today, industrial performance depends on the ability to anticipate or keep pace with technological leaps in one's sector of activity. A good example of this is IBM, a company that has been present in the computer market since its beginnings, and is still an innovator today with the success of nomadic devices. Being competitive therefore means being able to effectively appropriate the latest technological skills. It also means mastering the future technological skills that will drive tomorrow's performance.

Technology management covers all actions that enable :

• identify and evaluate the company's technologies (whatever their nature) ;

• choose which technologies to acquire in the short and long term, to develop the business or simply prevent it from disappearing.

Technology management is therefore an essential and complementary operation to other strategic approaches, such as financial and sales strategy or quality management.

In this fact sheet, you'll find practical approaches to :

• identify the technologies mastered by your company ;

• evaluate this potential according to several criteria: competition, ease of copying... ;

• describe your company's current and future technological environment;

• select key technologies for the future ;

• establish different scenarios to prepare for technological evolution: the roadmap .