Re: [SAGE] Professional Training Q

[Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>]

Andrew Maddox wrote:
> 
> Well, here's a new (for me) task. Find training in technology management,
> or technology planning. I'm not sure quite what it would be called.
> 
> I need something that will help give me some tools and tricks to answer a
> question like this:
> 
>     "How do you forecast future technology needs, assess emerging
>      technologies, and analyze how they would fit (or not fit) into
>      your organization, both from a purely technical viewpoint and
>      from a management perspective?"
> 
> The good news is that $ORK wants to provide this. The bad news is that I
> just don't know where to even start looking. AMA? IEEE/ACM? Any suggestions
> and other information will be greatly appreciated!

Well, I know the SAGE folk are not going to like these answers, but reality
is that this is where the world points to.

http://www.iccp.org/
http://www.aitp.org/index.jsp (Association of Information Technology
Professionals)

The latter was formed from bits and pieces of the old DPMA (which we used
to make fun of, when I belonged the the Computer Club on campus). That'd be
Data Processing Management Association.

There are even degrees in this sort of thing (take a look at the So Cal
diploma mill over in Malibu, I forget its name). Forecasting is an art in
itself, and I think that your management (unless this is a VERY small
company) is being disingenuous in asking you to enter this. 

--
In April 1951, Galaxy published C.M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons".
The intervening years have proven Kornbluth right.

               --Valdis Kletnieks