The Future of Technology Management and the Business Environment.pdf

ptg16382014 ptg16382014 The Future of Technology Management and the Business Environment ptg16382014 This page intentionally left blank ptg16382014 The Future of Technology Management and the Business Environment Lessons on Innovation, Disruption, and Strategy Execution Alfred Marcus ptg16382014 To my wife, my two sons, David and Ariel; to Massoud Amin, director of the Technological Leadership Institute (TLI) at the University of Minnesota, who describes himself as “a happy geek on a mission with expertise plex systems, energy, defense, pioneering smart self-healing grid, CIP security, and resilience”; and to all among us who seek peace in a time of turbulence. ptg16382014 Contents-at-a Glance Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 1 Technological Disruptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chapter 2 Commercialization’s Obstacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Chapter 3 Hedging the Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 PART II: MANAGING DANGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Chapter 4 Dealing with Danger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Chapter 5 Laws of Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 PART III: THE ENVIRONMENT OF TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Chapter 6 Old, Young, and Global Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Chapter 7 Rich, Poor, and Global Inequality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Chapter 8 Abundance, Scarcity, and Global Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12