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Afit Strategic Plan: Accelerating Superiority 2023-2028, Afit Strategic Planning Committee, Air Force Institute Of Technology, Walter F. Jones

AFIT Documents

AFIT Vision: Leading defense-focused education, research, and consultation to accelerate military superiority across all domains.

AFIT Mission: Educate defense professionals to innovatively accomplish the deterrence and warfighting missions of the U.S. Air and Space Forces.

Toward A Technology Management Core: Defining What The Technology Manager Needs To Know, Mark Doggett, Pam Mcgee, Sophia Scott

Mark Doggett

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Toward A Technology Management Core: Defining What The Technology Manager Needs To Know, Mark Doggett, Pam Mcgee, Sophia Scott

SEAS Faculty Publications

With the increasing demands on organizations to do “more with less,” and produce acceptable market results, productivity and performance standards continually raise the expectations on competitive success. To meet these expectations, organizations should create learning opportunities that combine the application of technical management skills along with the softer skills involved in people management. Technical managers with little training or past experience with nontechnical skills often perform poorly in technical management positions (Kroecker, 2007). Because this generation lives in a highly technical environment, managers need to be proficient in dealing with knowledge workers and systems; therefore, there is a growing emphasis …