IPA IP 2024 Question 17
A question IPA Japan published in 令和6年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問17, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Which of the following describes a roadmap that is created in a technology development strategy?
Explanation
Time on the horizontal axis, markets, products and technologies on the vertical — a technology roadmap shows when R&D results are to become products and businesses, and how these elements connect.
A technology roadmap lays out along a time axis which technologies are to be developed, which products they feed and which markets those products serve, with the links between the layers. It turns a technology development strategy into a shared plan with milestones, so that engineers, management and other staff can see the route from research to commercialization and check progress and consistency along it.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) — plotting technologies by competitive level and life-cycle stage is a technology portfolio, a snapshot of where each technology stands with no time line
- •(b) — graphing a technology’s performance against the R&D invested in it, and the switch from old to new technology, is the technology S-curve
- •(c) — plotting development projects by their market and technical promise is a portfolio of R&D projects, used to choose which ones to fund
Key rule: A roadmap is the chart with a time axis; the two-axis matrices without one are portfolios, and investment against results is the S-curve.
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