Technology intelligence: Methods and capabilities for generation of knowledge and decision making

The creation of value based on the generation of knowledge is a key factor due to the need of facing changes in environment, especially those technological. That is the reason why formal intelligence systems have got a position due to their versatility to identify endogenous abilities and changes in the surrounding environment through the transformation of data into knowledge with a strategic value. The main question is which abilities an organization should have for implementation of intelligence systems and what methods use for transforming information into knowledge. After these are defined, it would be possible to transcend a purely theoretical intelligence system to a model allowing its explanation, one that goes beyond information technologies and ensures mechanisms of knowledge management. Because of the aforesaid, this paper presents first a novel system of technology intelligence, which retakes the basis of biological metaphor and complex systems. It is constituted by three components: knowledge generation, integration of tools for technological management and strategy issue and implementation. Secondly, some considerations are established for its application taking as a reference the experience of its application in 23 sectors. Such an experience has shown the impact of technology intelligence in innovation, knowledge management and decision making.