Technology Roadmapping
| Development | Assessment | Roadmapping |
Understanding today’s technical landscape is a daunting task. Products are becoming more complicated and customized while time to market is shrinking and product life-cycles shrinking Better technology planning can help deal with this increasingly competitive environment.
At both the individual corporate and industry levels, technology roadmapping has several potential uses and resulting benefits.
- Technology roadmapping can help develop a consensus about a set of needs and the technologies required to satisfy those needs.
- It provides a mechanism to help experts forecast technology developments in targeted areas.
- 3. Roadmapping provides a framework to help plan and coordinate technology developments both within a company or an entire industry.
The main benefit of technology roadmapping is that it provides information to help make better technology investment decisions.
- Identifies critical technologies or technology gaps that must be filled to meet product performance targets.
- Provides a framework to leverage R&D investments through coordinating research activities either within a single company or among alliance members.
