TY - JOUR ID - 42776 TI - Clustering of Technology Evaluation Strategies via CAPTECH JO - Journal of Improvement Management JA - JMI LA - en SN - 2251-8991 AU - Makui, Ahmad AU - Paydar, Mohammad Mahdi AU - Abdollahzadeh, Sohrab AU - Rafiei, Abbas AD - Associate Professor, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. AD - PhD candidate of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. AD - Instructor, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran. AD - Instructor, Faculty of Management and Industrial Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2011 PY - 2011 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 66 EP - 79 KW - technology evaluation KW - CAPTECH KW - Clustering KW - TOPSIS DO - N2 - Due to limited organizational budget, priority and performance of suitable technology strategies to eliminate or reduce technology gaps has got high importance. Ranking and proper choice of present and newfangled technologies needed by an organization for performance will elevate competitive privileges of the organization. In common methods first specific strategies, then all are ranked and executed according to the limitations of organization resources. In that case it is possible to choose homogeneous strategies which will raise unbalanced growth of the organization. In this paper, firstly the condition of present technology of organization is evaluated through CAPTECH method and proper strategies are defined. Contrary to common methods, introducing and using a novel heuristic method, strategies are classified in several clusters. Secondly, strategies within each cluster are ranked by TOPSIS method and at the time of execution a top strategy is chosen from each cluster. Thereupon, the efficiency of applying the strategies and possibility of balanced growth of organization will dramatically increase. To evaluate the proposed method, a case study has been done in a cold storage facility and the positive results have been demonstrated. UR - https://www.behboodmodiriat.ir/article_42776.html L1 - https://www.behboodmodiriat.ir/article_42776_3e2d19dd1e170d11f5e949f008e2638c.pdf ER -