Study of Strategic Management of Technology Models and Providing a Suitable Model For ABFAR Companies (Case Study: Markazi Province's Rural Water and Waste-water Co.)

Document Type : review paper

Authors

• Ali Safar Heydari
• mahdi teymurian

Markazi Province Water and Wastewater Company,

10.22067/jwsd.v2i1.37894

Abstract

With regard to the importance of technological developments, senior enterprise managers should be aware of their organization's technological capabilities, changes and developments in the world, and also have information from their rivals' efforts in achieving new technologies, to be in line of their organization's technology developments. Therefore a technological needs assessment model, is developed as an indicator to determine the technological capabilities required for the implementation of technology plans in developing countries. This paper analyses the technological capabilities level of the Markazi province's rural water and waste-water company and highlights its weaknesses using the aforementioned model. This model assess nine different aspects of the company's capabilities, and determines its performance in each category. Results show that in attracting, employment and acquisition of technology the company scores the lowest compared with other aspects. Also, the strategic Technology unit in the company, the quality control unit, the maintenance unit, and monitoring unit have been identified as strategic technology units in the company. Based on this, the technology need for these units is much more critical. From the proposed AHP models the needs assessment model has been chosen as the most suitable strategic technology model for the company. From the perspective of this model, the technology needs have been divided into six categories and the model assess the attractiveness and technology capabilities in each of these categories. Based on the ratings, in terms of attractiveness and capability, the three technologies of: Trap meters, Scada and Disinfection systems and new energies, have the highest importance in the Markazi province of ABFAR co, respectively.

Keywords

• Technology needs assessment model
• evaluating the technology
• technology strategy
• Hax & Majluf model

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