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Art of High Tech Management

Art of High Tech Management. Six Themes of Success or How to avoid potholes?. Six Themes of Success. Business Focus Closely Related Products Focused R&D Consistent Priorities. Six Themes of Success. Adaptability Organizational Flexibility. Six Themes of Success.

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Art of High Tech Management

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  1. Art of High Tech Management Six Themes of Success or How to avoid potholes?

  2. Six Themes of Success Business Focus • Closely Related Products • Focused R&D • Consistent Priorities

  3. Six Themes of Success Adaptability • Organizational Flexibility

  4. Six Themes of Success Organization Cohesion • Good Communications • Job Rotation • Integration of Roles • Long Term Employment?

  5. Six Themes of Success Entrepreneurial Culture • Entrepreneurial Characteristics • Small Divisions • Variety of Funding Channels • Tolerance of Failure • Opportunity to Pursue Outside Projects

  6. Six Themes of Success Sense of Integrity Hands on Management

  7. The Challenge? • Kill off the dinosaurs • A little chaos never hurt • Promote atmosphere of creativity

  8. The Paradox of High Tech Management Requires: • Business Focus • Organization Cohesion • Integrity and • Adaptability • Flexibility • Hands on Management

  9. Guiding Concepts • Job Holders vs. System Contributors • Decision Making as close as possible to sources of uncertainty and interdependence • Ideal Seeking vs. Rule Following • Variety increasing vs. decreasing systems

  10. Core Questions • How does the technology work • its limits & potential • what resources are required • direction and speed of change • available options for comparison

  11. NASA Administrator Webb “We were required to fly our administrative machine in a turbulent environment, and …. A certain level of organizational instability was essential if NASA was not to lose control”

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