How do I say “what technologies should be *used* in a project”?

Question

Hey, I'd need a synonym for used in this phrase, because the meaning is from the "long term" point of view, something like:

What technologies should be employed in a project for it to succeed in following 10 years?

If I use used it seems like we take advantage of this technology right know; that's not the meaning I need.

I'm using this kind of sentence very often in a documentation and I need a substitution for often.

Regards.

Answer 1

What technologies should be adopted...

Examples

• Originally conceived by IBM in 1997, the EJB 1.0 and 1.1 specifications were adopted by Sun in 1999. Spring Persistence with Hibernate (2010)

• To get the benefits of ORM for non-J2EE applications, programmers typically adopt an alternative ORM framework, the most popular of which is Hibernate. MySQL stored procedure programming (2006)

• Unfortunately, users with Rails experience who adopt Grails are in for a few surprises because the tools are really quite different The definitive guide to Grails (2009)

Note: nothing wrong with use and employ though.

Answer 2

Implemented would give the sense of being used when the technologies need to be used, not before.

Answer 3

You should try to make the phrase more active:

• What technologies should the project use for it to succeed over the next 10 years?

I also think that use is a perfectly sensible word to use in the context; short, sweet, simple. If you need an alternative, then employ is probably one of the better options.

Answer 4

What technologies should be leveraged…