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Emerging Technologies

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Project Objective: General Manager's View of Emerging Technologies

It is the intent of this project to profile, from a general management perspective, an emerging technology and "brief" your management committee (er, classmates) on the potentials and limitations of the technology. Ideally, the selected technologies are on, or might be on, the radar screens in your own markets.

Your Executive Briefing should include:

• Identification/definition of the Technology (How do I recognise it?)

• Recent applications (initial target domains)

• Explanation and profile of the technology

• Identification of major players/users (Links)

• Assessment of limitations and potential (caselet)

• Brief history of the evolution of the technology - maybe a timeline of the keys to development and application

• How should one decide when to adopt and how to employ the technology?

• Future development and expectations

• Other comments on the adoption and leverage of the technology

Examples

Digital Receipts, flying robots, disposable cellphones, fuel cells, hypersonic sound, passport, 3G, biometric security, wearable computing, GLOBUS, SOAP, wolfpack clustering, grid computing, object request brokers, embedded AI, UDDI, and MAVs.

Example ET Projects <-- See Prior Examples

1. Put in a folder marked with the name of the technology - lower case, ex. 'xml'

2. Root html file is titled - index.html

3. All file references for local assets (html and gifs) are in the folder and local. This means you should be able to load a floppy with your folder and launch the file - index.html in a browser on a foreign machine and have everything work fine.

4. Use ALL lower case letters for file names.

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The objective is to identify an emerging technology and profile, for a "management committee," the status, potential and limitations of the technology. The selection of the technology is based on relative "emergence" of the technology in your industry.

As in diving, the evaluation will be based on the degree of difficulty and the execution. No need to get too fancy - we are more concerned with how you communicate content than having "cool" websites.