MEM 647 - Managing Emerging Technologies

3 hours
This course will explore emerging technologies and look at how they evolve, how to identify them, and the effect international, political, social, economic and cultural forces have on them. Identifying emerging technologies will allow students to examine how these latest technologies will bring changes to medicine, transportation, information, and energy infrastructures. This class will take time to cover topics including forecasting methodologies, measuring customer trends, creating an organizational culture for sustained innovation, and viewing new technologies from a global perspective. GR