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IEEE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT REVIEW, VOL. 40, NO. 3, THIRD QUARTER, SEPTEMBER 2012
Technology Managers Notebook “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” —John F. Kennedy “No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.” —Henry Mintzberg —PAUL K. BERGEY University of Melbourne, Australia
IEEE DOI 10.1109/EMR.2012.2206956
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S with all issues of EMR, we embrace the trademark slogan of the IEEE, “Advancing Technology for Humanity.” The EMR advances technology for humanity by examining the management practices that lead to world class engineering innovations which are successfully vetted by natural market forces. In this issue of EMR, we introduce the “Technology Managers Notebook,” a new format designed to engage our readers and invite their active participation in shaping the future topics published in EMR. I truly believe that free markets provide an efficient vehicle for vetting opposing ideas in the same way that natural selection provides an efficient vehicle for vetting the prosperity of living organisms. In 2011, the IEEE Technology Management Council (TMC) Board of Governors selected five management portfolios, from approximately twenty major technology management issues, and agreed to present them in EMR. The five portfolios in priority order and with their leaders include: • Managing Technology Professionals (Tuna Tarim) • Innovation (Gus Gaynor) • Strategic Technology Management (Wil Thissen) • Organizational Interfaces (Felix Lustenberger) • Project Management (Celia Desmond) These five portfolios represent issues that will continue to be of vital importance not only to managers involved in engineering and technology, but also their counterparts in the many other professional disciplines and their discipline specialists. Managing technology covers a vast field of interests with many different levels of responsibility; our goal is to deal with topics with sufficient breadth, and provide useful content. Please send your comments to Gus Gaynor, TMC Vice President Publications and Chair of the Technology Managers Notebook at
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