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This paper argues that people with learning disabilities are an important potential consumer of ‘personalised technology’ and provides case studies demonstrating some of the ways that technology can help this client group. It also outlines the main barriers to personalised technology becoming a core element of social care planning for people with learning disabilities and concludes that more needs to be done to overcome these barriers and to research and demonstrate the potential benefits to this group.

This paper describes the TATE [Through Assistive Technology to Employment] Project. TATE is a European Social Fund Equal project that developed electronic assistive technology (EAT) to enhance the independence and employability of adults with learning disabilities. This paper describes the model developed by the TATE Project for the implementation of EAT into organisations for adults with learning disabilities. The TATE Project has resulted in positive benefits to the lives of people with learning disabilities through the use of EAT and there has subsequently been much interest generated in further promoting the use of EAT within the UK and the EU.

This article focuses on how Hft, a national charity for people with learning disabilities, is using and developing personalised technology to empower people with learning disabilities and to increase their independence. It showcases how Hft is using personalised technology in practice and creating awareness of how it can be used to support independence, safety and security. Two individual case studies are provided to illustrate the effective use of technology by people with learning disabilities to increase their independence. The article highlights the need for investment and development in technology to support the growing number of dependent people and stresses the importance of ethical guidance to ensure that the technology is implemented correctly to enable people with learning disabilities to gain the maximum benefits.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how personalised technology can be adapted and used as a tool to benefit the quality of life for people with learning disabilities who have multiple and complex needs.

Hft, a national charity supporting people with learning disabilities and their families, focuses on the introduction of personalised technology at one of its services, Clementi Court, using personal case studies to illustrate the positive impact it has had on their lives.

By taking a personalised approach in the use of technology, all individuals featured in the case studies were empowered to become more independent, enabling them to make more choices and ultimately take more control over their own lives.

Hft believes in using a creative and resourceful approach to support individuals to make choices about the lives they want.

This article explores how personalised technology could have the potential to change the behaviour of people with learning disabilities, enabling them to take more control of their lives and increase their independence. Hft investigates unforeseen outcomes in its work with people with learning disabilities and personalised technology and asks whether personalised technology could be used as a training tool?

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how personalised technology can be used to support people with learning disabilities as they age and face the onset of dementia.

National learning disability charity, Hft, focuses on its Gloucestershire service at Old Quarries, using individual case studies of adults with dementia who are using personalised technology on a daily basis to illustrate how personalised technology has made a difference to their lives.

In all the case studies featured the individuals concerned were able to use personalised technology to empower them to live more independently and safely and to remain at a location where they have lived for many years rather than being moved into alternative, unfamiliar accommodation. Personalised technology has enabled them to make important life choices.

Hft believes that people with learning disabilities should be supported to live their lives in the way that they want and that creative solutions can be found to enable individuals to do this.

The purpose of this paper is to examine how and why outsiders, rather than incumbents, are able to take advantage of technological discontinuities.

The paper employs a case study of a single innovation that transformed the technology of Formula 1 motor racing.

The findings show how social capital made up of “weak ties” in the form of informal personal networks, enabled an outsider to successfully make the leap to a new technological regime.

The findings show that where new product development involves a shift to new technologies, social capital can have an important part to play.

It is widely accepted that radical innovations are often competence destroying, making it difficult for incumbents to make the transition to a new technology. The paper's findings show how the social capital of outsiders can place them at a particular advantage in utilizing new technologies.

To assist colleagues in tying current ideas to previously established practices. To generate discussion of the current relevance of students' understanding management history.

A review of representative classic theorists with an eye toward matching their behavior to that of current newsmakers. This is presented in a model to insure that like areas are compared.

The past is in the present. Although we may live in the day of “enlightened” “collaborative” management; there are still successful people who operate differently.

Readers of the paper will be able to make immediate application of the model.

Even presentation of the obvious has value. The model format is a dynamic document that others can use and improve upon.