ITPEC IP April 2018 Question 85
Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning a technology roadmap?
Explanation
A technology development strategy based on the enterprise strategy, readable by non-engineers too — that is a technology roadmap.
A technology roadmap lays out, along a time axis, which technologies will be developed or acquired and when, linked to the products and market needs they serve. Because it starts from the business strategy, it is meant to be shared across the company, not only among engineers.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) — a roadmap is forward-looking: its purpose is to show future technology trends and targets, not only past transitions
- •(b) — governments and industry bodies also publish technology roadmaps, for example national strategic technology roadmaps
- •(c) — a roadmap is reviewed as market and technology trends change; a plan that ignores the market would lose its link to the business strategy
Key rule: A technology roadmap ties the business strategy to future technologies and milestones on a timeline, and is revised as markets and technologies move.
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