Organization of Technology Management

We designed a technology monitoring system for an automotive manufacturer, filled it with content in two specific fields of application and monitored it over several years.

The objective was to design and implement a customized process for systematic technology management. As a project with another external partner had previously been stopped, the aim was also to integrate usable preliminary work in the best possible way.

In the first step, our experts mapped the relevant process landscape and also recorded the requirements of key technology management stakeholders. In the second step, a joint workshop was held with the client's core team to design the concept of their technology management, which includes the relevant processes, activities and stakeholders in interaction with adjacent processes and areas. After approval by top management, this concept was detailed in a series of collaborative workshops in the third step with regard to process steps, methods & tools and responsibilities. In the subsequent fourth step, the previously detailed process was piloted by our experts together with the client's core team by successively going through it under guidance and initially filling it with company-specific content. Based on the lessons learned, the process was then developed further and a plan for the global roll-out was proposed.

A turnkey technology management process was handed over to the customer. The technology strategy and roadmap were also developed and core competencies and strategic search fields for early technology identification were worked out during the pilot phase.