Organzation Technology Plan
...all major car companies. In order to maintain a leading position in the automobile industry, Toyota strives to maintain an edge using technologies spanning all aspects of business, because, after all, technology is used directly to improve the product being offered and indirectly to improve the process in which people work. Because technology is essential to creating a successful organization, this paper will analyze the technology used by Toyota, how it supports the general business functions, and the challenges presented by new technologies; as well as support activities that increase effectiveness, innovative approaches and the use of the internet at Toyota. This paper will also analyze how Toyota should manage organizational change caused by its use of technology; specifically, the technology causing the move to future technologies, the responsibility of managers to implement sudden and drastic change, areas in which managers must be knowledgeable, dealing with resistance to change and the ability to communicate change to the consumer. And lastly, this paper will analyze Toyota’s business practice, including its social and ethical responsibilities as related to technology, the ethical issues for the organization, information management as it relates to technology, the Internet and cultural differences.
New Technology: Pros versus Cons
Sometime in the foreseeable future Toyota plans to release its newly redesigned hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (Car Tech, 2007), which will add to their already staggering and unprecedented amount of hybrid vehicles. Unfortunately, Toyota must overcome immense technological challenges if they want to make this car a reality. Among some of the problematic technological issues that the “environmentally-friendly cars must face [is]…how far they can travel on a single fueling and the extremely high cost of...
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