ITPEC IP October 2022 Question 85

The technologies expected to be realized in a field, with their implementation timeline — that is a technology roadmap.

A technology roadmap lays out, along a time axis, which technologies in a field will be developed or acquired and when, linked to the products and market needs they serve. Companies draw one from their business strategy to decide R&D investment; governments and industry bodies publish them to share a common view of where a field is heading. It is revised as markets and technologies change.

Answer (d)

Why not others:

• •(a) — describing the technology needed for a shortest-route search in car navigation is the design of one function; it has no timeline of a field's future technologies
• •(b) — a list of the software technologies used in developing a business system describes the present development environment, not the future
• •(c) — the technologies staff should learn for each career path belong to a skill map or training plan for human resources

Key rule: A roadmap is forward-looking and time-based: it answers which technology, by when, and for what product or need.

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