VALIDITY OF BUSINESS STRATEGY AS DRIVER IN TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - A CRITICAL DISCUSSION

摘要

Frameworks for technological development are increasingly requiring that technology must be developed in accordance with the corporate business strategy. It is an interesting tendency that technological development should reflect and interact with central change processes of the enterprise. This is however colliding with challenges in case of normative or prescriptive strategies: Such strategies can be erroneous, misrepresenting, unsubstantiated, short lived, and centrered narrowly in internal top-level management processes. This paper discusses advantages, disadvantages and alternatives in connecting technological design tightly to the business strategy. The purpose of this paper is to advance a research agenda, where long-term orientation of technology is connected to the necessary tools for obtaining insight in assessing adequacy, reliability and quality of business strategy and evaluation of alternatives. Alternatives are related to business environments, compliance, infrastructure, knowledge, skills and societal factors.