As developing DIY solutions may challenge users to develop technological proficiency, doing so could promote positive feelings of mastery and self-efficacy [ 13], as well as reflective learning and technology adoption at one's own pace, two central principles of the "Slow Design" philosophy that aims to achieve more meaningful and sustained technology use [ 58, 59].
Our findings highlight the importance of sustained technology improvement and appropriate public policy in shifting the U.S. electricity generation mix toward low-carbon sources, and ultimately in achieving national climate-change mitigation targets.
All these efforts combined served as test cases to trigger sustained technology developments.
It can be tempting to continue investing in areas with a proven return; CIOs can help boards resist complacency by having an ongoing dialogue on the allocation of technology investments, the appropriate balance of investments in preserving and growing the business, and the value of sustained technology-enabled business innovation capability that can shape the organization's future.
For discount brokers like Charles Schwab, the Internet was a "sustaining" technology, he said, because it let them perform their existing business more efficiently.
He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles.
Berkeley Engineering faculty Ikhlaq Sidhu and Ken Singer, along with Phil Kaminsky, chair of the Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Department and the Sutardja Center's faculty director, designed the center's "Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship" to teach students how to launch and sustain technology ventures.
In 2015, 26 two- and four-year institutions received grants to help implement and sustain technology-mediated advising reforms.
There are what he calls sustaining technologies, which merely improve existing products or services, and disruptive technologies, which completely change the nature of a market or business.
In his recent book "The Innovator's Dilemma", Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School makes the distinction between "sustaining" technologies, which deliver improved product performance, and "disruptive" ones, which initially result in worse performance.
A series of disruptive business ventures launched by these companies would create far greater growth for them, with less investment, than would continued pursuit of sustaining technologies that enable specialists to push further into high-end complexities.
