Putting Technology into Strategic Planning

For companies interested in exploiting technology as a competitive weapon, see Frohman Alan L. , “Technology as a Competitive Weapon,” Harvard Business Review (January/February 1982).

See Henderson Bruce D. , The Experience Curve Reviewed, IV. The Growth Share Matrix of the Product Portfolio (Boston, MA: The Boston Consulting Group, 1973), Perspectives No. 135; see also, The Product Portfolio (Boston, MA: The Boston Consulting Group, 1970), Perspectives No. 66.

Rosenbloom Richard S. , “Technological Innovation in Firms and Industries: An Assessment of the State of the Art,” in Kelly P. Kranzherd M. , eds., Technological Innovation (San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Press, 1978).

Maidique Modesto Patch P. , “Corporate Strategy and Technological Policy,” Harvard Business School Note 9-678-033.

White George R. Graham Margaret B. W. , “How to Spot a Technological Winner,” Harvard Business Review (March/April 1978); Gold Bela , “Alternative Strategies for Advancing a Company's Technology,” Research Management (July 1975); Fusfeld A. R. , “How to Put Technology Into Corporate Planning,” Technology Review (May 1978).

Kantrow Alan , “The Strategy-Technology Connection,” Harvard Business Review (July/August 1980).

Andrews Kenneth , The Concept of Corporate Strategy (Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1971).

Bonoma T. V. , “Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying?” Harvard Business Review (May/June 1982) provides a very useful discussion of industrial purchasing.

Specialists Silicon Valley , Inc. Harvard Business School Case Services, 9-677-053.