ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the overall issue of technology management and the implications of this research for the Information Processing Theory of organization theoretical framework. It explores a theoretical-to-pragmatic transitional discussion of some of the decision-making implications raised by the Versatile Avionics Shop Test and automatic test equipment research. Einstein has reputedly defined "genius" as "the ability to see the obvious". After huge amounts of analysis, it seems obvious that successful technology accessions of any kind require full understanding of the organization as a complex system, no matter how the readers approach the question of accession, and no matter what kind of technology is at issue. Technology accession, then, is much more than simply a transition from one generation of hardware and software to another. It is the interaction of the technology transition with the organizational transition that must accompany it.
