Implementing New Technologies

Collecting information from R&D, Project Teams, Marketing and Strategic Planning will provide the resources, costs, timing, risks, and opportunities associated with products and the market and will indicate their weight on overall operations. Additional information regarding projects probability of success, their ROI, and market life span will help with prioritizing them, deciding which to undertake, and how to introduce them into the market. Project specific information needed would be the phase, launch year, probability of success, projected sales, and pre-launch costs that include R&D, in order to value each project specifically.

Cost management planning happens early on in the project planning phase and should be refined throughout the project’s life cycle as additional details become available. The project’s cost management plan sets the framework for all of the project’s cost management processes. The accuracy of estimating a project’s cost is essential to the successful or failure of the project. This makes choosing the right estimating techniques crucial for a project.

The initial cost of the project will be the sum of the development, project administration, implementation, and financing functions. Development cost include IT system design, process planning, and feasibility analysis. Hardware upgrades, software development, infrastructure improvements are included in the implementation costs. Administration expenditures cover other costs such as training, furniture, network infrastructure, utilities, and insurance. Kudler expects to use this system for a prolonged period of time; therefore, the cost of the life cycle will need to be calculated also. Furthermore, the benefits of worker productivity gain, expenditure decrease, and employee utilization gains will also be calculated in the economic feasibility analysis. Once the initial cost of the project is determined, feasibility can be determined on the economic level. According to article, “Implementation: The operational feasibility perspective”, operational feasibility will be achieved if the following steps are followed. Step 1, managers and employee negative perceptions of change must be addressed openly. Step 2, positive factors for change must be reinforced. Step 3, the highest stress should be dealt with first. Step 4, change must start at the top of the organization. Step 5, informal and formal lines of communication should be used. All managers and workers should be involved or represented in the design.

Buzzing, ringing, clicking, swiping, and tapping are all sounds we make with technology, but how far will it go? Societies may be overruled by technology in the future, according to Aldous Huxley. He creates a dystopian society where everything is unpleasant and overruled by technology. Technology is so advanced that is controlling the society and taking the society as its prisoners. Aldous Huxley explored a new way of seeing technology in the 1930s through his novel Brave New World while introducing the world to the impact technology can have and how it is able to threaten a society.

In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the world as people know it is advancing technologically, scientifically, and influencing humanity in a negative manner. Huxley uses the World State to express how such advances are slowly ruining humanity. The World State and the people living in it are a prime example of how technology and science are tainting humanity and society. Throughout the novel, many connections to todays society can be clearly identified and connected to. People in the World State are mass produced through the Bakonovsky Process.

The entire world in Brave New World is united as the World State, governed by ten World Controllers. The entire world is run by these select people. In Brave New World technology plays a huge roll in the standards of life, and provides a 'perfect' world. Technology, which has brought mankind from the Stone Age to the 21st century, can also ruin the lives of people. In Brave New World, Huxley shows us what technology can do if we exercise it too much. Humans can lose humanity if we rely on technology too much. The world Huxley created is a working utopian society that doesn't have disease, war, problems, crisis but it's also a sad society with no feelings, emotions or human characteristics. There can be no 'utopia' because there cannot be a

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the quality of World State is stuck in the 1920’s where technological innovations restrict the creation of the utopian society is impossible. This is proven through the looks of what makes a utopian society, how manipulation is used throughout the novel and placing both a technological and scientific view on how World State runs the society. Brave New World is known most for the fact that it is trying to mimic a utopian society through the way it conditions the people in World State. People sometimes associate the word “utopia” with Adam and Eve, a place of sanctuary and a place where everyone is happy and at peace.

In the novel Brave New World, it tells you that technology controls humans (also government controls) from the time they are in the test tube. Technology is so advanced that they can make you highly intelligent or not intelligent while you are still an embryo. Mr. Foster says (chapter 1, pg. 14) “The lower the caste the shorter the oxygen.” This means that one cannot have control over their own intelligence. You cannot try your best, or do more work because your intelligence is pre planed. Also, there is no choice as to whether one will allow technology to think for them, because their intelligence is chosen when one is an embryo.

With the implementation of new software systems or new methods of performing tasks, there is often some level of resistance. Properly introducing the new idea, its feasibility and purpose is a necessary aspect of getting one’s current staff onboard and in cooperation with the plan. They need to understand the importance of system implementation and its implication on their daily performance of patient care. Nursing is an ever-evolving profession, one with many facets of care. Nurses must constantly adapt to changes in their daily working habits. A nature of commitment to new ways of working is vital to the delivery of safe and efficient healthcare. However, emotions can inhibit the way change is accepted. “Implementing sustainable and meaningful change means supporting each individual to find value in new ways of working” (Bowers, 2011, para. 1). Unexpected change lends itself to uncertainty, and fear of the unknown. Therefore, being able to identify reasons for resistance, and working to quell these levels of resistance are important in a constructive manner, this helps with progression.

The cost planning is one of important phases for project management. It will goes through whole project’s life cycle. It is foundation of project and it will tell the project are measured, reported and controlled in every process. Estimating is the process of forecasting or approximating the time and cost of completing project deliverables.

When considering the proposed advertising program and technology upgrades, we have to ensure that the project will likely add value to the company, so we need to consider the return on investment versus the cost of capital. If the return on investment, measured by the net present value and internal rate of return, exceeds the cost of capital, the investment should be taken.

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Better understand the demands of different stakeholders. They will have unique needs and concerns – for time, manufacturers are more likely to want to know what skills they should adopt and priorities your project (as opposed to other innovations), if there is good evidence of their benefit in it.

My experience inside the research and development community and product development has given me the unique perspective to understand the mission viability of solutions and its power in making or breaking technology advancement. This perspective enhances my ability to make the most appropriate technology decisions today and tomorrow to ensure the ultimate goal of adoption is not lost in chasing unattainable solutions, those “Technical baubles”.

There is a manufacturing company of medium sized which is working on increasing the prototype capability for its firm. The controversy is going in the selection process of the project among the two proposed project to achieve the goal of the company. The first proposed project was based on the traditional prototype used by the company. The project is tested and resulted with the low risk factor in the priority for increasing the capability of the prototype for the firm. The project follows all the ethics of the company and is based on according to the company’s culture and structure. Therefore no training program is required for the staff. The second project introduces new technique of 3D printing to enhance the prototype with high speed. It minimizes the cost of the project. The requirement of this project is a greater capital input. As the system is using new technology, therefore the training program is required for the employees. The risk factor rises up with the introduction of new prototyping system. If the new system is get successful then it will result with maximizing the profit for the firm. As the consultant I will go through projects by exploring their assumptions, advantages and disadvantages and then I