This essay focuses on the role of technology in strategic decision. Many people like to drink coffee, often in a coffee shop. That coffee

the role of technology in strategic decision

Research and write a synthesis of your findings on one of the following topics:

How does offshoring effect the domestic economy as compared to the organization’s performance?
Why is it important that managers understand the role of technology in strategic decision making and developing a balanced scorecard?

There are three important aspects to this definition:

1. Technology is about taking action to meet a human need rather than merely understanding the workings of the natural world, which is the goal of science. The invention of the microscope was driven by a need to explore the world of the small, beyond our unaided vision. This technological solution to a long standing problem has in turn enabled us to understand more the workings of the world which in turn has led to the development of more technologies.

2. It uses much more than scientific knowledge and includes values. This is  as much as facts, practical craft knowledge as much as theoretical knowledge. The iPod is an example of where the physics of making a small device carry so much music. It  is marry with creative design to make an iconic must have accessory.

3. It involves organize ways of doing things. It covers the intend and unintend  interactions between products (machines, devices, artifacts) and the people and systems who make them, use them or are affect by them through various processes. Many people like to drink coffee, often in a coffee shop. That coffee may have come from trees which have been bred specifically . This is for increased yields that support a small farmer and his family but that requires pesticides that were developed and manufactured in another country.