The document discusses how technology has evolved through different ages defined by dominant technologies like the stone age, iron age, and information age. It explains how technology generates wealth when commercialized or used strategically in organizations to improve productivity. While advanced technologies can create wealth, properly managing low to medium level technologies through strategies like cheaper labor, fewer regulations, and infrastructure development have allowed newly industrialized countries to successfully compete and see economic growth.
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Wk 2 role of technology
2. Evolution By Age of Technology
The Creation of Wealth
The Evolution of Production Technology
The Evolution of Product Technology
Technology Role in Organization
Technology and National Economy
3. Identify the evolution of technology
Explain how technology role important to
the creation of wealth
4. Progress of civilization is frequently identified by the
dominant technology of the age
The stone age
The bronze age
The iron age
The steam power age
The electricity age
The nuclear power age
The electronics age
The aerospace age
The information age
The biotechnology age
6. Technology generates
wealth when it is
commercialized or
used to achieve a
desired strategic or
operational objective
for an organization.
Spinning Out Technology
7. Adam Smith (British economist, 18th century) :
Economic Wealth (EW) is produced and distributed
Argued that capital is best employed for the
production of wealth
Each nation should produce the goods in which it
has absolute advantage
Joseph Schumpeter (German economist, 1928) :
EW is characterized by private initiative, by
production for a market and by a phenomenon of
credit
He also showed that industrial expansion is also the
result of economic forces
8. Meanwhile, many economists determined economic
growth by the rate of change in per capita real GDP
Robert Solow (1987 Nobel Prize in Economics)
indicates that technological development will be the
motor for EW in the long run
Boskin & Lau (1992) indicate that 3 principal sources
of EW are enhanced capital, labor and technical
progress
U.S National Science & Technology Council (1996)
emphasized that technology is the engine of EW. It
reported that performance of individual companies is
strongly linked to their use of technology
9. Other factors that contribute to the wealth-creation system
Natural
Resources
Technology Market
Wealth
Creation
Public &
Labor Environmen
tal Policy
Capital
10. Improvement in productivity is vitally important to
an economic system technology is the driver
Emerging and new technology spurs economic
expansion known as the long-wave or long economic
cycle
Betz (1987) suggested that the process behind it is an
interaction between technology, business
opportunities the new technology creates and an
eventual overbuilding of capital after the technology
ages.
11. Discoveries in Phenomenal base Creates new
science for technological products
innovation
Creating excess Expanding markets Create new markets
production capacity & industries
Decrease New science &
profitability and May lead to technology provide
increase business depressions basis new economic
failures expansion
13. Cutting-edge technology is behind the long waves
of economic activity.
High-technology products displace old technology
when there is a justification for performance over
cost.
Technology life cycles of industries affect long cycles
in the national economy.
New technology comes from science and science
comes from new discoveries in nature.
A new technology, when created, will began a new
wave.
14. Agriculture Society manual labor dominated
The Industrial Revolution factory concept was born
1880
Scientific Management introduced by Frederick Taylor
Times Studies & Mass Production
Division of Labor, Labor Unions
1880 > Standardization, Assembly Line introduced by Henry Ford
Organizational Concepts
Motion Study introduced by Frank & Lillian Gilbreth
1900 > Piecework
15. Production Control & Management Planning
Queuing, Wage Incentive, Management Planning
1920 > Statistical Quality Control (SQC) introduced by Deming & Juran
Tool Design, Human Factors
Productivity, Engineering Economy
1940 > Inventory Theory, Layout, Material Handling
Computerization, Reliability
Operational Research
1950 > Statistical Analysis, Network Techniques
16. Automation, System Design, Teleprocessing
Information Systems, Decision Theory, Simulation
1960 > System Engineering, Optimization Theory
Control Theory, Large Scale System
Total System Design, Social System, Cybernetics
1970 > Behavioral Theory, Personal Computers
Technology Revolution
Management of Technology
1980 >
17. Cotton gin (Whitney)
1793 - 1829 Practical Steamboat (Fulton)
Steam Powered Locomotive for passengers and
freight
Telegraph (Morse), Improved plow (Deere)
1830 - 1900 Vulcanized Rubber, Internal Combustion Engine
Telephone (Bell), Radio (Marconi)
Air Conditioner, FM Radio
1901 - 1939 First Flight (Wright Bros.), Model T (Ford)
Helicopter, Jet Engine, Liquid-Fueled Rockets
18. Color TV, Electronic Appliance
1940 - 1949 Digital Computer, Instant Camera
Jet Airliner, Transistor, Supersonic Flight
Sputnik 1 (USSR), NASA, Apollo XI
1950 - 1969 Integrated Circuit, Operable Laser, Fiber Optics
Telstar Satellite, First Man in Space
Microprocessor, Recombinant DNA
1970 onwards Laser Printer, MRI Scanner, Space Shuttle
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
19. 1. Provides Sustainable
Competitive Advantage
2. Increases Productivity
3. Creates Profits
4. Protects from Obsolescence
5. Achieves Business-Market Fit
6. Enhances Motivation and
Potential of Employees
7. Engine of Economic Growth
8. Improves Quality of Life
20. Developed economies countries that properly use
technology for the creation of wealth
Less developed economies countries lacking the
technological know-how necessary to create wealth
U.S has the greatest technological edge in the world
but Japan & Germany have manage their resources
and technological systems better (achieved economic
advantage)
21. Formulate policies to promote technology
Place strategic focus on right technology
Build technological capabilities
Safeguard interests of society
Provide resources
Strengthen education and entrepreneurship
Set up appropriate legal frame work
Establish networks
22. Not the technology itself create the wealth it is the
appropriate and effective use of such technology
Wealth is created on the basis of technology,
production and smart work
23. Proper management of low or medium level
technologies can still create a certain competitive
advantage and be effectively used for wealth creation. In
support of this point, one can observed the economic
growth of newly industrialized countries (NICs),
particularly those called the tigers of Asia such as Taiwan,
Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. These countries have
succeeded in acquiring low or medium level technologies
and have done a credible job in managing technological
resources. What strategy was followed by that country
to become a competitor? Discussed the points.
24. Strategy that been used to become competitor:
1. Cheaper labor
2. Fewer regulatory restrictions
3. Strategic geographical location
4. Focusing niches where it can prosper
5. Excellent infrastructure
6. Stable currency