Annotated Bibliographies on The challenges of managing technology in organizations

This document provides annotated bibliographies on the challenges of managing technology in organizations. It covers topics such as methodological challenges, effects of modern office technology, and strategic concerns in technology innovation.

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON THE CHALLENGES OF MANAGING
TECHNOLOGY IN ORGANIZATIONS
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Merkel, C. Farooq, U. Canoe, C. Rosson, M. and Caroll, J. (2016). Managing technology
use and learning in nonprofit community organizations: Methodological challenges and
opportunities. Computer Supported Collaboration And Learning Laboratory And Center For
Human Computer Interaction College Of Information Sciences And Technology, 25(4),
pp.427-439.
This article addresses some of the methodological challenges together with opportunities
that arise during the process of managing the use of technology. The main area of study in this
study is the nonprofit community organization that uses technology to investigate how they face
various challenges in their operations. Merkel and other authors of this article try to investigate
how various ways can be used in empowering nonprofit community organizations to create best
practices for information technology management that focus on carrying out their civil targets.
The authors’ state major challenge in managing technology is the lack of skilled personnel to
operate various machines that are used to improve operations of nonprofit community
companies. This article states that technology usage in various nonprofit community
organizations become more complex. The complexity makes the process of managing
technology to be the serious bottleneck to individual and productivity of the organization. This
article is useful for the research topic as the authors suggest that technological management is
challenging because its plan in nonprofit community organizations is not always the precise
section of their organizational activities.
Pfano, M. and Beharry, A. (2016). The effect of modern office technology on management
performance: Durban Westville. Problems and perspectives in Management, 14(2-2), 376-
384.

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This article focuses on the examination of the different effects that the technology of
current office has on administrative accomplishments concerning Durban. The authors of this
piece acknowledge that it is tough to imagine of a scenario where business operations can work
properly exclusive of the application of advance technology. This study uses a quantitative
research approach to obtain the objective of understanding challenges within the process of
management of technology. Despite the advantages that office technology has on operations of
organizations such as Durban, the authors of this article record that the process of managing such
technology is challenging and need more changes to be set in place. The major limitation of this
article is that the study only focused on the use of office technology in specified locations
without getting views from people in other sectors. Therefore, it is tough to use this article in
forming the basis of research on the subject as the study is limited to specific organizations.
Tocan, M. and Chindris-Vasioiu, O. ire, W. (2011). The Organization and the Challenges of
the New Century. Journal of Knowledge Management, Economic and Information
Technology, 7(1), pp.259-267.
This article records that change from the current times affects more and more, in general,
the economies of different states and in specific the organizations through the influence on the
business setting. According to perceptions of the authors of this article, it is always simple for
society to see how various events from one nation sometimes have the global impact. This article
also states that in other times technology has an impact on particular economies of organizations
from different nations. Accordance with this article, management of technology must lie on
different forces that comprise of economic, cultural, and political. The challenges in the
organization on the use of technology according to this article tend to result in variation in yields

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such as other organizations yield more profits than others. The main limitation of this paper is
that the authors focused on challenges of managing technology in terms of market structure
rather than focusing on the entire management process of the organization to come up with the
best views on how managing technology is a challenge.
Delaney, R. and D’Agostino, R. (2015). The Challenges of Integrating New Technology into
an Organization. Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Capstones, 25(4), pp. 8-31.
This article focuses on illustrating some of the challenges experienced during the process
of integrating advanced technology into the operations of an organization. The authors of this
article state that the current competitive markets have made most organizations to deploy the use
of technology in their operations without having an appropriate understanding of some of the
challenges that it come within an organization. The author based their study on different case
studies such as the New Jersey Division of gaming enforcement to find the challenges that such
organizations get in managing new technologies. Therefore, presentation of ideas in this article
concludes by stating that diversification of staff remains to be an essential concept in addressing
when the managing the implementation of new technology as a way of reducing challenges in
technology usage. This article is useful as it helps in illustrating some of the challenges that an
organization might experience during their operations. Hence, through the outcomes in the study,
different organizations can focus on how to control such challenges when they focus on the use
of technology to support their operations.
Horleserger, M. (2017). Challenges in the Management of New Technologies. Management
of Technology, 25(6), pp.628.

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This article illustrates that new advancement in bio and nanotechnologies and also in
communication as well as information technology. The use of the technology according to this
article has shaped the research setting in the past decades although it comes with significant
challenges. This article is useful for this study because it shows how managing technology in this
current climate presents significant challenges. The research of this article focuses on approaches
to assessing some of the challenges that are being experienced in the process of managing
technology to improve the performances of the organization. The main limitation of this article is
that the author restricted its survey in confined places without focusing on other areas that
depend on the use of technology. Therefore, this article has failed in giving appropriate
challenges that affect the process of management of technology in other sectors. This study is not
useful in the area of study that is identified above as the author concentrates only on
transnational organizations.
Kim, W. (2017). On Challenges for Information Management Technology. Journal of
Object Technology, 6(4), pp.1-8.
This article determines some of the challenges being faced in the process of managing
technology in communication and other sectors. The author reports that in present times,
information technology and its management faces two principal related challenges. According to
the author, one of the challenges is to tame the technology as well as options explosion that are
upon individuals. The other challenge in the process of managing technology within an
organization according to Kim is to support the needed information in the ubiquitous
environment that is being created. According to this article, these two indicated challenges in the
management of technology had received considerable attention from several segments of

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management of information technology and research community. This article is important in this
area of study because of the author addressed different challenges that faced the process of
managing technology in an efficient manner that is simple to understand.
Oparanma, A. (2014).Strategic Issues in Managing technology Innovation: Paradigms for
Nigerian companies. Department of Management Rivers State University of Science and
Technology, 35(9), pp.1318-1342.
The author of this article examines some of the strategic concerns in technology together
with innovation as they affect different business operations. For instance, it affects
environmental scanning, formulation of different business strategies, alongside implementation
of the strategy. Oparanma states that the management of different challenges in technology usage
can be overcome through the process of having clear guidelines of technological usages. The
author uses a case study of the Motorola Company to show how managing technology became
challenging in its operations. The use of this organization enables the author to get essential data
on accessing challenges within the operations of a company. The main limitation of this research
article is that the sample survey was just collected from Nigeria without necessary focusing on
other regions around the globe. Therefore, the use of this article for the study is unnecessary
because the challenges identified to be affecting the management of technology in Nigeria
cannot be the same with its effects in other regions.
Sanli, O. (2010). Management Issues in Information Technology. Microsoft Certified
Busines Solutions Specialist and President of Payden Corporation Istanbul, Turkey.
Journal of Management Issues, 68(12), pp.46-66.

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This article explores some of the management issues within the use of information
technology among different organizations within Turkey. The author states that there are several
managerial roles of information technology managers that can help in reducing or eliminating
various challenges that can arise due to the use of technology in an organization. This article
records that some of the challenges of management of technology in the organization include
network issues, service management, risk in operating the technological devices, and having
appropriate knowledge on how to use technology for operations. This article is important as it
effectively address some of the challenges that the organization face when managing technology.
The ideas of the author are useful as it describes how the company can overcome such issues
with the evolution of management of machines. This study is useful in this area of research as the
author has recorded more challenges to comprise of security concern of the use of technology,
the process of outsourcing it, and the need to secure system by use of cloud computing.
Panda, S. (2011). Performance Management System : Issues and Challenges. Management
System, 27(3), pp.185-194.
This article examines some of the issues and challenges that are affecting the
management of the system that deal with performances of organizations. The author of this
article indicates that human resource in any organization is a vital component in the process of
management of its management systems by use of technology. A performance management
system according to this article has faced different challenges. Some of the challenges that have
been highlighted in this article compose of problematic concerns in managing the performance of
workers that use the system of technology. The other challenges that the author as addressed is
the key function of the human resource department that have a hand in ensuring successful

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management of performance management system y the technology. Therefore, this article is
important in this study as it addresses some of the vita issues that affect the management of the
performance management system in the organization through the use of advanced technology.
Babaei, M. and Beikzad, J. (2013). Management Information System, Challenges, and
Solutions. Journal of Natural and Social Science, 3(3), pp.374-381.
This article examines some of the challenges together with their solutions within the
management information system in an organization. The authors of this article report that with
the increase in growth in the use of technology there are different challenges that face its usage
in terms of increasing productivity of organizations. In this article, some of the challenges that
affect the management of information according to the authors are classified into different
sections. These sections comprise of humanistic, environmental, as well as organizational
factors. These three factors are discussed in this article to be the major drawbacks and the
reasons that lead to failure in using management information systems in different organizations.
This study is useful is as it helps in finding the key challenges in managing technology by
explaining its position, function, definition, benefits, and classification. Besides, this article
indicates some of the best ways that the management of organization can use to ensure that they
reduce challenges in the management of information during the operations.