Key Terms Ch 17 Flashcards
Executive in charge of information technology strategy and development.
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
A focused organizational effort to create a new product or process via technological advances.
Development Project
An executive who supports a new technology and protects the product champion of the innovation.
Executive Champion
A change in method or technology; a positive, useful departure from previous ways of doing things.
Innovation
The question an organization asks itself about whether to acquire new technology from an outside source or develop it itself.
Make-or-Buy Decision
A person who promotes a new technology throughout the organization in an effort to obtain acceptance of and support for it.
Product Champion
An approach to job design that attempts to redesign tasks to optimize operation of a new technology while preserving employees’ interpersonal relationships and other human aspects of the work.
Sociotechnical Systems
A person who develops a new technology or has the key skills to install and operate the technology.
Technical Innovator
The systematic application of scientific knowledge to a new product, process, or service
Technology
Process of clarifying the key technologies on which an organization depends.
Technology Audit
A predictable pattern followed by a technological innovation, from its inception and development to market saturation and replacement
Technology Life Cycle
