Putting technology management principles into the future context: what's new? where next?

Abstract

This research is about to predict the social movement and business trends in the future, as well as outlining on how current Technology Management principles will affect this trends. In order to achieve this, the research focuses on, an overview of how today's global issues and social trends will continue into the future ans a discussion of how current Technology Management principles will be affected by this trends. In addition, the researcher has expanded the view of business trends to include the predicted future business trends, which the researcher has categorised as 'future context'. Consequently, sixteen drivers are established as future context review. Further, the potential impact of the corresponding future context on the corresponding current Technology Management principles are being map in the matrix. In which four technology Management principles are tested in this study. Additionally, this research reveals the transition dynamic of the future context, which reflects the predicted movement of future changes that may impact on the current Technology Management principles as they are today.