問8
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技術を理解している者が企業経営について学び, 技術革新をビジネスに結びつけようとする考え方はどれか。
平成25年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問8
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解説
問 8
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JIT is short for Just In Time, an approach to production management, typified by the Toyota Production System, of producing and procuring "what is needed, when it is needed, in the amount that is needed." Its aim is to compress inventory and eliminate waste, so it has nothing to do with engineers learning management and linking technological innovation to business.
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正解 The correct answer is イ, MOT. MOT is short for Management of Technology (技術経営), and it refers to the management technique and way of thinking by which engineers and researchers who understand technology acquire knowledge of management and carry the technological innovation produced in research and development all the way through to commercialization and profit generation. The wording in the question, "the concept in which a person who understands technology learns about business management and tries to link technological innovation to business," is simply a restatement of this definition of MOT. In MOT, the main theme is how to get over barriers such as the "Valley of Death," where technology seeds are blocked partway to productization by walls of funding and commercialization, and the "Darwinian Sea," where after productization a product fails to spread in the market and sinks out of sight.
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OJT is short for On the Job Training, a method of in-house education in which superiors and senior colleagues instruct their subordinates through actual work in the workplace. It is a methodology for developing human resources, not a management concept for connecting technological innovation to commercialization.
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TQM is short for Total Quality Management (総合的品質管理), a management technique in which everyone from management down to the front line takes part company-wide in continuously improving the quality of products and services and of business processes. What it targets is building quality in, and it is not a concept whose main focus is turning technological innovation into business.
ここがポイント
- MOT (Management of Technology) = a management concept in which people who understand technology learn management and link technological innovation to commercialization and profit generation. As related terms, make sure you have "the Valley of Death" and "the Darwinian Sea" down.
- Distinguish the areas covered by the confusingly similar three-letter abbreviations: JIT = a production system (inventory reduction), OJT = on-the-job education (developing human resources), TQM = company-wide quality management (quality improvement).
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