Published: 30 March 2010
Summary
Following the STREET (scope, track, rank, evaluate, evangelize, transfer) process for identifying and evaluating high-impact emerging technologies will enable your organization to focus its innovation activities and avoid the potential disasters of personality-driven investment decisions.
Included in Full Research
- The Role of Emerging Technology Planning
- Why Plan for Emerging Technologies?
- Defining Emerging Technology
- The Importance of Process
- Overview of the STREET Technology Adoption Process
- Scope: Establishing the Context for Technology Innovation
- Top Down: Strategic Direction
- Bottom Up: Business Issues
- Out of the Box: Visioning and Scenarios
- Enterprise Personality: Type A, B and C Characteristics
- Track: Collecting the Candidates
- Technology Scan
- Technology Profiles
- Rank: Make the Prioritization Explicit
- Factors for Ranking Technologies
- Spider Charts
- Hype Cycles
- Radar Screens
- Priority Matrix
- Technology Scorecards
- Balancing the Portfolio
- Taking Action Based on Ranking Results
- Evaluate: The Deliverable Is a Decision
- Planning the Evaluation Project
- What to Evaluate: Benefits, Risks and Costs
- How to Evaluate: Prototypes, Pilots and Champion/Challenger
- Technology Evaluation Documents
- Making the Decision
- Evangelize: Spreading the Word
- Marketing
- Education
- Networking
- Driving Change
- Transfer: Making It Happen
- Transferring Knowledge Through People
- Consulting to Operational Development
- Seven Imperatives for Successful Emerging Technology and Innovation Adoption