<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A technology roadmap is a plan that matches short - term and long - term goals with specific technology solutions to help meet those goals . It is a plan that applies to a new product or process, or to an emerging technology . </P> <P> Developing a roadmap has three major uses . It helps reach a consensus about a set of needs and the technologies required to satisfy those needs, it provides a mechanism to help forecast technology developments, and it provides a framework to help plan and coordinate technology developments . </P> <P> The technology roadmapping process conducts three phases (see figure 1): preliminary activities, the development of the roadmap, and the follow - up activities phase . Because the process is too big for one model, the phases are modeled separately . In the models no different roles are made; this is because everything is done by the participants as a group . </P>

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