Technology Tools
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SBIR Assessment Tool
Is your Technology business ready for Small Business Innovation Research Grants? Use the Michigan Small Business Development Center'sTM SBIR Assessment to determine readiness. (Requires Microsoft Excel to view)
 SBIR Assessment Tool
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Technology Roadmapping
Facilitated discussion to evaluate the direction of your technology, departmentalize concepts and strategic direction.
Strategic Problem Solving
The Implications Wheel® by Joel Barker is a decision enhancing tool helping your organization identify and evaluate short and long-term implications for the outcomes of a specific decision or change. The Implications Wheel® is an effective way to identify potential unidentified consequences of initiating a new policy, introducing a new product, or implementing a major change within your company. The systematic and graphic process provides a structured tool which yields far more information about the potential outcomes of a decision.
Strategic Actioning
The Strategy Matrix®, designed by Joel Barker, is a simple, group facilitated discussion process allowing your business to quickly evaluate proposed strategic initiatives against current goals and culture of your organization. It is a quantitative tool for exploring the impacts of initiatives and prioritizing those initiatives for organization. The MI-SBTDC network provides Strategy Matrix® facilitation statewide.
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