Exam 7: Innovation and Change

Carolint, a watch manufacturer, has installed custom smart lighting and ventilation systems in employees' workspaces. These enable employees to set their preferences, and the system automatically senses their presence and modifies the temperature and light settings. This scenario best illustrates _____.

Nearly all technology cycles follow a typical S-curve pattern of innovation.

_____ is a change based on incremental improvements to a dominant technological design such that the improved technology is fully backward compatible with the older technology.

Pagent, a company that manufactures watches, introduces a new range of watches with a safety application programmed into it. This application is designed especially for women and helps them alert people in case of danger. In the context of innovation streams, which of the following concepts does this scenario best illustrate?

In the context of organizational development, which of the following is a difference between large-system intervention and small-group intervention?

In the context of managing resistance to change, an error in the refreezing stage is not systematically planning for and creating short-term wins.

In an attempt to eliminate spectacles from the market, Lensamt, a company that manufactures and supplies contact lenses, launched an advertising campaign to popularize its products. To counter this and stay in the market, the spectacle manufacturers introduced new offers and discounts on spectacles. In the context of innovation streams, which of the following concepts does this scenario best illustrate?

In terms of change tools and techniques, the General Electric fastworks approach is a special kind of results-driven change.

During design competition, _____.

Zavacomp, a company that manufactures sports accessories, earlier manufactured and sold fitness shoes and activity tracking watches as separate units. It observed that customers frequently bought these two accessories together and hence created a new integrated product with a tracking device embedded in its sports shoes. In the context of innovation streams, which of the following concepts does this scenario best illustrate?

In the _____ of organizational decline, as organizational performance problems become more visible, management may recognize the need to change but still take no measures.

Which of the following is a difference between experiential and compression approaches to innovation?

The compression approach to innovation assumes that innovation is occurring within a highly uncertain environment and that the key to fast product innovation is to use intuition, flexible options, and hands-on experience to reduce uncertainty and accelerate learning and understanding.

Elotrik, a company that manufactures and supplies epilators, implements a marketing strategy to popularize its epilators and replace razors in the market. To counter this and stay in the market, the razor manufacturers introduce new offers and discounts. In the context of innovation streams, which of the following concepts does this scenario best illustrate?

_____ is a new technological design or process that becomes the accepted market standard.