Technology Adoption Readiness Assessment in an Agricultural Setting: A Case Study

Technology adoption is especially challenging in agricultural settings. Maturity models are commonly used to assess the technology adoption readiness in such settings. While they have been shown to be good enough assessment tools, they typically challenge people when using them because each country have particular situations. We are working towards developing a Chilean-context specific technology adoption readiness assessment model. We present a real-world case in which we retrospectively use our maturity model to assess two key domain areas: Human resources and Infrastructure (both part of Capacity management domain). Promising results presented in this paper show that the maturity model allows assessments to be more organized and focused. Ongoing work to improve this maturity model is underway. We expect that the model would eventually allow self-assessments in agricultural settings.