Implementing New Technologies

Implementing New Technologies in the Office

Preparing Your Organization for New Technologies

To be successful in today’s work world, organizations must embrace new technological breakthroughs that enable continual improvement, including automated or AI‑powered analysis tools. The L&D team should embrace technological advancements as opportunities rather than obstacles. In this issue of TD at Work, Debbie Richards shares: Organizational facets to research Questions to ask Stakeholders that can help you prepare for implementation A big picture of governance and development Examples of technology projects, L&D’s role within them, and their benefits The Tools & Resources in this issue are the Researching Technology at Your Organization Worksheet, Workplace Technology Adoption Checklist, and Project Kickoff Worksheet.

Implementing New Technologies

Technological change has had a profound impact on manufacturing industry and related business sectors. Since publication of the first edition of Implementing New Technologies the pace of change ahs been maintained, often with uncertain consequences. In this new edition the editors have brought together a collection of readings which include: Project planning. Conversion or application of plans. Consolidation of change after the insertion of new technologies. Although the second edition includes material on innovation it is more concerned with the consequences of technology diffusion and technology transfer, concentrating on the adoption of technologies which are novel in a particular application even though not inherently 'new'.