Technology Policy Process to Cope with the Complexity of Enterprize Technology Strategies

At the first part of this paper, we summarize the first of our series papers(Haruna, 1999), where we applied Harold Lasswell's concept of the policy process and the policy scientist who supports the process, and proposed the idea of technology policy process and staff because technology development process has to be understood as such a complex decision process as pointed out by Lasswell(1971). And we summarize the second of our series papers (Haruna, 2001), where we analyzed the key factors in implementing technology policy staff and the effects of digital media-enabled innovation of organizational decision field. The investigation was due to the decision model by G. T. Allison(1971) and to Transaction-cost Politics Model by A. Dixit(1996). The present paper mainly clarifies what factors TPS has to takes into considerations in the task of organizational goal -clarification in technology policy process. We examine several models of organizational vision creating process and reach an extension of the creating process by use of Peirce's idea(Moor,1972), that is, in other words, an extension of the goal-clarifying activity in Lasswell's policy process model. This extension brings about a broader aspect of recognizing the "apparatus of capture" defined by DELEUZE and GUATTARI (1980) as a strategic mechanism to integrate (merging) market and technology. The final part of this paper is concerned with efficiency of the process, where business platform and technology platform appears as an alternative realization.