Swinburne University: Technology Essentials for Managers - Challenges

This report, prepared for INF80042 Technology Essentials for Managers, delves into the multifaceted challenges organizations face in managing technology. It explores key issues such as cybersecurity threats, the shortage of skilled technology professionals, the lack of effective digital transformation strategies, and the complexities of remote management. The report also addresses the impact of outdated technological parameters and the need for skilled leadership in navigating these challenges. The author provides an overview of the challenges, analyzing the challenges and offering a conclusion that highlights the importance of strategic planning, ethical considerations, and the development of comprehensive strategies to mitigate these issues and optimize technological investments for improved organizational performance. The annotated bibliography provides references to support the analysis.

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CHALLENGES OF MANAGING TECHNOLOGY IN ORGANIZATIONS
Technology can be best described as a combination of various forms of management disciplines
that allows a given organization to come on board and be able to manage multiple aspects of its
technological fundamentals thereby creating multiple conditions that are related to competitive
advantages (Bathallath, Smedberg and Kjellin 2016). Technology has emerged to be one of the
best parameters in this modern society; nearly every organization is not capable of caring out an
efficient and reliable operation without implementing various aspects that are associated with
technology.
Moreover, the significant role that is attached to technology management function within
a given organization majorly aims towards understanding the value of various forms of
technology that are associated with the organization itself (Conforto and Amaral 2016). In this
modern society, a continuous development of technology has proved to the valuable in as much
as there exists some value that is specifically directed to the customers thus issues dealing with
technology management function within a given organization should be able to critically
evaluate the best time of investing on various aspects of technology development and when to
avoid the investment. On the other hand, technology management can be referred to as a form of
integrated planning, optimization together with the operation of various types of technological
products and services that are known to be taking place within a particular organization. The
currently developed new forms of technology have emerged as an intrinsic parameter in the lives
of many individuals. They have gone as far as infiltrating every facet that is attached to our lives
(Blumenthal et al. 2016). As a result of various technological advancements, various conditions

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of the visual workplace are likely to become one of the most common organizational forms. At
the same time, multiple mechanisms that are related to managing different types of technological
changes have proved to be unsuccessful over the past period. This has majorly occurred due to
technological developments out passing the ability of various governments or even businesses
when it comes to the regulation of its use.
Moreover, the transition from a national based kind of industrial age to a more advanced
digital age is a more sophisticated process that will mainly require various personalities together
with several other technical specialists to bring on board a certain level of input as far as the
development of new management and leadership skills is concerned (Gholami et al 2016). In as
much as technology has brought on board quite several benefits in various organizations,
multiple challenges are associated with its management in different organizations thereby
hindering the performance of multiple tasks that are geared towards bringing on board various
adequate and reliable performance conditions. The challenges associated with managing
technology in an organization have the capability of posing quite a several threats to the
organizations thus making it very difficult to obtain different goals and objectives within the
stipulated time frame. At the same time, the challenges are known to have the capability of
affecting the top management officials of the organization, the employees and even the
customers who are known to be situated in various locations. The growth of multiple forms of
modern technology has revolutionized how distinct personalities are capable of performing
different activities across the global platform. The ability to keep various types of computers to
be running at optimal levels is an activity that strategically falls on information technology
managers who have been given the mandate to continually scale up their skills to keep up with a
good number of the latest technological changes.

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Challenges of managing technology in an organization
Quite several problems associated with managing technology is various organizations
have emerged to be a severe issue that has been facing quite a several organizations thus
hindering their performance to greater heights in terms of how they carry their operations. In as
much as various companies can continue scaling up a good number of their investments by
entirely depending on multiple aspects of information technology resources, a right amount of
them is not doing enough to protect themselves (Edmondson and Nembhard 2019). The
following are some of the challenges that are associated with managing technology in various
types of organizations;
 Cybersecurity- Cybersecurity appears to be among some of the significant problems that
a good number of organizations are facing when it comes to managing their technology.
Various external threats from unknown hackers within the internet platform has been one
of the most significant challenges since it leads to the penetration of different essential
information that can be easily manipulated thus changing the way a given organization is
operating (Feeney and Welch 2016). Through this, a good number of organizations
usually find it hard to manage the right amount of their technological parameters.
 Shortage of skills for technology- Across various parts of the world, quite several
companies have been able to encounter a significant deficit for most of the critical
technology roles within their boundaries. Moreover, one of the most significant shortages
in this area usually is technology leaders who are experienced in terms of their skills.

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 Lack of appropriate and reliable forms of digital transformation- Various types of
technology are known to be lacking a proper and secure digital transformation techniques
that are capable of integrating digital technology into all areas of the entire organization
with the intention of scaling up quite a number of operations together with delivering
more value-based services to various customers who are known to be situated in multiple
locations.
 Remote management- Remote management being among the significant challenges of
managing technology in various organizations has been able to make quite a number of
conventional offices to appear to be less relevant in multiple situations most so when
multiple forms of digital technologies are implemented with the intention of allowing
various employees to perform various tasks in a remote way. As a result, the
organizations are capable of facing one of the most significant pressures when it comes to
keeping a variety of networks to run in a required manner (Grispos, Storer and Glisson
2012).
 Lack of appropriate awareness on various forms of technological implementations- Quite
a several individuals within various organizations has not yet developed the skills on how
best multiple types of technology can be implemented to come up with an effective
outcome. This has therefore posed one of the greatest threats in terms of how technology
is being managed within the organizations thus hindering them from attaining quite
several goals and objectives within the stipulated time frame (Meijer and Bolívar 2016).
 Unskilled leaders- Unskilled leaders are among the significant challenges that affect how
technology is being managed across various organizations. There usually are those
leaders who are not always aware of how best managerial skills can be implemented most

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so when dealing with multiple forms of technology within the organization (Damsgaard
and Scheepers 2016). As a result of this, it will be difficult to manage various aspects of
technologies that are capable of scaling up the performance of the entire organization to
overcome most of the existing competitors within the market platform.
 Outdated technological parameters- Quite several parameters that have become obsolete
have ended up bringing on board one of the most significant challenges when it comes to
managing various aspects of technologies within organizations. Moreover, the outdated
technological parameters are not capable of performing appropriately in order to keep up
with the current trends of what is taking place within the boundaries of the organizations
thus making it difficult to manage the technologies within the organization in order to
come up with an appropriate and reliable outcome that is required at all times. On the
other hand, the use of outdated parameters may at some point fail to function thus making
it difficult to carry out quite several operations within the organizations. This will,
therefore, bring on board various forms of adverse outcomes in terms of how the
technologies are managed.
Conclusion
It is clear beyond any reasonable doubt that challenges associated with managing
various forms of technologies within an organization are among the significant factors
that are capable of scaling down the performance of these organizations thus giving them
one of the hardest time possible to compete with most of their competitors who are
available within the platform. Moreover, technology has emerged to be one of the most
fundamental parameters in this current society that is capable of predicting both the
current and future operations of various organizations. Therefore, it should always be

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given priority in terms of how multiple top management officials handle it. Additionally,
to overcome these challenges associated with managing technologies in organizations,
there is the need to fully develop quite several adequate and reliable strategies that can be
easily understood by various personalities within the organization. This can only be
carried out through a perfect consideration of quite several ethical concerns that are
capable of creating boundaries on the exact things that should be done together with the
ones that should be avoided as much as possible with the intention of overcoming
different unwanted situations.

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Annotated Bibliography
Bathallath, S., Smedberg, Å. and Kjellin, H. (2016). Managing project interdependencies in IT/IS
project portfolios: a review of managerial issues. International journal of information systems
and project management, 4(1), pp.67-82.
The authors of this article are among some of the experts with a vast knowledge in information
technology parameters where they mainly target various top management leaders within
organizations. It is a book that has been appropriately used in the essay to correctly describe
within the information technology sectors thus clearly evaluating quite several managerial issues
associated with the management of technology. This article has been used to bring a clear
meaning of the challenges that are faced in terms of the challenges of managing technology in
organizations. Comparing this work with Blumenthal, both of them tend to talk about the
challenges being faced by various organizations when it comes to the management of various
forms of technology. One of the limitations in this work is that it doesn’t have a wide range of
analyzing various parameters that aims towards giving adequate information within the
technology sector regarding how it is managed.
Blumenthal, D., Chernof, B., Fulmer, T., Lumpkin, J. and Selberg, J. (2016). An evaluation of
the challenges of managing technology in organizations. New England Journal of Medicine,
375(10), pp.909-911.
The authors of this journal have dealt with several challenges attached to the management of
various aspects of modern forms of technology. The memoir illuminates the entire bibliography
topic by coming up with quite several reasonable and perfect definitions of some of the
challenges that make it challenging to manage technology in various organizations. The intended

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audience for this article is organizations that are interested in implementing multiple
technological aspects. Comparing this article to Bathallath, it is has a more advanced set of
information that can be easily understood by the target audience thus making it much easier to
adequately analyze quite a number of objectives that are found within the boundaries of
technology. There is no limitations that are attached to this article thus provides an easy time to
handle various parameters within the essay in order to come up with a more reliable outcome that
is capable of describing various issues taking place in this modern society.
Conforto, E. and Amaral, D. (2016). Agile project management and stage-gate model—A hybrid
framework for technology-based companies. Journal of Engineering and Technology
Management, 40, pp.1-14.
The theme of this article majorly talks about various aspects of technology management that
indicates the implementation of a hybrid framework that is meant for multiple technology-based
companies. The authors’ background mainly revolves around the boundaries of engineering and
technology. At the same time, the intended audience targeted by this article is the students where
the entire work illuminates the bibliography topic by offering a perfect description of various
issues. The article has been used to bring on board a clear meaning of various challenges of
managing technologies in organizations. Comparing this article to the one that is written by
Damsgaard, they are almost talking about the same thing as far as technology is concerned thus
coming up with a wide range of analysis regarding various issues being experienced as far as the
management of technology in various organizations is concerned. One of the major limitations
associated with it is that it doesn’t give a deep comparison of various technology based issues.

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Damsgaard, J. and Scheepers, R. (2016). Managing the crises in intranet implementation: a stage
model. Information Systems Journal, 10(2), pp.131-149.
The central theme that is attached to this article is dealing with various crises that are related to
the implementation of quite several internet parameters. Moreover, the background of the authors
majorly talks about information systems with the primary intended audience being students
together with various types of organizations. Also, the entire work illuminates the whole
bibliography topic by offering multiple management strategies on how the crises associated with
internet implementation can be best eliminated. Comparing this article to the one that was
written by Doherty, they are geared towards the same direction by raising concerns pertaining
some of the challenges that are associated with the implementation of various forms of
technology. On the other hand, it has a limitation of not bringing on board a vast range of
information pertaining how the challenges of managing technology in organizations has been
able to drag behind most of the organizations in terms of performance.
Doherty, B., Haugh, H., and Lyon, F., 2014. Social enterprises as hybrid organizations: A review
and research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, 16(4), pp.417-436.
The major theme associated with this article is dealing with various technological based actions
within organizations. The background of the authors is mainly related to the management of
multiple operations taking place within an organization. The intended audience that the article
targets are hybrid organizations. Finally, it is an article that has been used to illuminate the
bibliography by carrying out an in-depth analysis and comparison of various parameters. The
article has been used to bring on board a clear meaning of some of the challenges facing the
implementation of technologies under various conditions. This article appears to be much wider

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in terms of information contained in it when compared to the one that was published by
Edmondson. Moreover, it has a limitation of not exploring various aspects of technology based
issues that are being experienced within the organization most so by the top management
officials who are in charge of various operations within these organizations that have decided to
implement modern forms of technology as their mode of operation.
Edmondson, A. and Nembhard, I. (2019). Product development and learning in project teams:
The challenges are the benefits — Journal of product innovation management, 26(2), pp.123-
138.
The major theme attached to this article talks about the innovation of various parameters through
the use of technology. Moreover, all the author have vast knowledge in quite some innovation
processes that aims towards taking an organization to the next level. At the same time, it is an
article that targets quite several organizations known to be existing within the market platform. It
is an article that has been used in the bibliography topic to bring on board a complete explanation
regarding the use of technology in innovation together with the challenges that are likely to exist.
Comparing this article to the one that was published by Feeney, they tend to bring on board quite
a number of interesting issues that are dealing with the implementation of technologies in
different organizations. This has therefore been used to fully explore a wide range of challenges
that are faced by the organizations when it comes to the implementation of the forms of
technology with specific purposes.
Feeney, M. and Welch, E. (2016). Technology–task coupling: Exploring social media use and
managerial perceptions of e-government. The American Review of Public Administration. 6th ed.
New York: James Peterson.

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The book explores the theme of using technology task coupling techniques to come on board
with appropriate information. Moreover, Feeney and Welch are known to have a broad
background of technology implementation directed towards various issues. Their target audience
is students and organizations known to be located in multiple locations. It illuminates the
bibliography topic by carrying out a critical review of public administration in terms of technical
aspects. This article when compared to the one published by Watson, it is clear beyond any
reasonable doubt that technology as a parameter in this current society is capable of facing quite
a number of challenges that are capable of hindering the achievement of quite a number of
objectives within the stipulated time frame. The article has therefore been used to give a
difference that exists between technology management and implementation across various
groups of organizations thus making it much easier for the target groups to easily understand
what is going on.
Gholami, R., Watson, R.T., Molla, A., Hasan, H. and Bjørn-Andersen, N. (2016). Information
systems solutions for environmental sustainability: How can we do more?. Journal of the
Association for Information Systems, 17(8), p.521.
Gholami together with the other authors have decided to put much concentration on the theme of
various solutions related to information systems. Their background majorly deals with
addressing multiple aspects of information systems. Moreover, they mainly target individual
organizations as their target audiences. It is an article that illuminates the bibliography topic by
talking about the challenges experienced by using various technological advancements to obtain
a specific objective. This article has been used to give a clear definition of technology challenges

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within the essay together with various issues that are likely to lead to the emergence of the
challenges. Comparing this article with the one that was written by Grispos, both of them are
capable of talking about some of the challenges that are likely to emerge as a result of
implementing various aspects of technology within an organization thus giving various
organizations a hard time to scale up their performances.
Grispos, G., Storer, T. and Glisson, W. (2012). The calm before the storm: The challenges of
cloud computing in digital forensics. International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics
(IJDCF), 4(2), pp.28-48.
The authors of this book are talking about the theme of cloud computing as one of the significant
challenges that are attached to the management of technology. At the same time, the background
of the authors revolves around a series of digital and crime forensics with their primary target
audience being computer-related organizations. Moreover, the entire work illuminates the
bibliography topic by highlighting quite a several challenges that are attached to cloud
computing as far as the management of technologies in organizations is concerned. Grispo’s
article compared to the one that was written by Meijer, appears to be more advanced in terms of
deeply analyzing some of the challenges that are capable of being encountered during the
implementation of various forms of technology. This therefore leads to the expansion of the
readers mind during the analysis of the essay thus coming up with a perfect conclusion of what is
being discussed.
Meijer, A. and Bolívar, M. (2016). Governing the smart city: a review of the literature on smart
urban governance in using technology. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 82(2),
pp.392-408.

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The authors of this article have concentrated their work on the theme of technology
implementation. Moreover, their background talks about dealing with various aspects of
administrative sciences with the intended audience being organizations and institutions. At the
same time, it illuminates of the bibliography topic by talking about multiple challenges revolving
around the use of smart technology. This article has been clearly used to describe how
technology is being implemented in various organizations within the boundaries of urban
governance together with the challenges that it has been able to encounter. Moreover, this article
appears to be more advanced than the one published by Gholami since it involves the
comparison of various organizations in terms of the challenges that they have been able to
encounter when dealing with different forms of technologies within their respective boundaries.
On the other hand, it is an article that is strictly limited to technological challenges related to
management.
Rahman, S. (2016). Environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology diffusion in
Bangladesh: an analysis of farmers' perceptions and their determinants. Journal of environmental
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the biotechnology industry. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 46(2), pp.125-156.
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