Technology roadmap

A technology roadmap is a flexible planning schedule to support strategic and long-range planning, by matching short-term and long-term goals with specific technology solutions.[1][2] It is a plan that applies to a new product or process and may include using technology forecasting or technology scouting to identify suitable emerging technologies.[3] It is a known technique to help manage the fuzzy front-end of innovation.[4] It is also expected that roadmapping techniques may help companies to survive in turbulent environments[1] and help them to plan in a more holistic way to include non-financial goals and drive towards a more sustainable development.[5] Here roadmaps can be combined with other corporate foresight methods to facilitate systemic change.[6]

Developing a roadmap has three major uses.[3] It helps reach a consensus about a set of needs and the technologies required to satisfy those needs, it provides a mechanism to help forecast technology developments, and it provides a framework to help plan and coordinate technology developments.[7] It may also be used as an analysis tool to map the development and emergence from new industries.

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  2. ^ Alexander, Peter (1 January 2006). "Creating a Technology Road Map". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b Garcia, M.L. and Bray, O.H. (1997). "Fundamentals of Technology Roadmapping". Strategic Business Development Department, Sandia National Laboratories. [1]
  4. ^ Oliveira, Maicon G.; Rozenfeld, Henrique (2010). "Integrating technology roadmapping and portfolio management at the front-end of new product development". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 77 (8): 1339–1354. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2010.07.015.
  5. ^ Petrick, Irene J.; Echols, Ann E. (2004). "Technology roadmapping in review: A tool for making sustainable new product development decisions". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 71 (1–2): 81–100. doi:10.1016/s0040-1625(03)00064-7.
  6. ^ Rohrbeck, René; Kallehave, Pernille (2012-06-01). "The Role of Corporate Foresight in Promoting Sustainability". Global Compact International Yearbook. 2012.
  7. ^ Thorsten., Laube (2006). Technologie-Roadmap : strategisches und taktisches Technologiemanagement ; ein Leitfaden. Abele, Thomas. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer-IRB-Verl. ISBN 978-3816771869. OCLC 180950449.