Exam 6: Disruptive Technologies: Understanding the Giant Killers and Considerations for Avoiding Extinction

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Cross-border bank transfers are not likely to adopt bitcoin since these functions are already electronic and highly automated.

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Question 21

Getting rid of card companies cuts out ____________, which can top 3 percent. Overstock.com was one of the first large online retailers to accept bitcoin.

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Question 22

Firms may want to use ARM chips because they draw less power than Intel chips.

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Question 23

What are the characteristics of disruptive technologies? Give an example of disruptive technology.

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Those early customers for a disruptive technology are part of a different "___________________" than anything addressed by incumbent market leaders.

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Question 25

An option is a right and an obligation to make an investment.

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Question 26

Why do big firms fail to see disruptive technologies as a threat?

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Question 27

Like most open-source efforts, bitcoin was created by a consortium of for-profit corporations hoping to fuel adoption of a beneficial new standard.

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Question 28

Bitcoin transctions are recorded in a public ledger known as the ____________.

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Question 29

Why can't big firms simply wait until disruptive innovations prove themselves before they invest in these new areas?

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Question 30

The acronym VoIP is considered by many to be a disruptive innovation. It refers to:

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Question 31

Low-margin retailers are interested in bitcoin because it may allow the elimination of fees associated with credit card transactions.

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Question 32

Incentives for U.S. consumer adoption of bitcoin are quite high.

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Question 33

ARM provides logic in the majority of smartphones, including products by Apple and Samsung.

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Question 34

ARM is one of the only firms, aside from Intel, that has scale allowing it to own and operate its own fabs.

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Question 35

One way the package software firm, Intuit has approached the future and avoided disruptive innovation was to ______________.

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Question 36

Intuit has avoided disruption in the shift away from packaged software by developing products that leverage cloud computing, some of which are initially provided for free.

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Question 37

Disruptive technology is also called disruptive _____.

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Cross-border bank transfers are not likely to adopt bitcoin since these functions are already electronic and highly automated.

Getting rid of card companies cuts out ____________, which can top 3 percent. Overstock.com was one of the first large online retailers to accept bitcoin.

Firms may want to use ARM chips because they draw less power than Intel chips.

What are the characteristics of disruptive technologies? Give an example of disruptive technology.

Those early customers for a disruptive technology are part of a different "___________________" than anything addressed by incumbent market leaders.

An option is a right and an obligation to make an investment.

Why do big firms fail to see disruptive technologies as a threat?

Like most open-source efforts, bitcoin was created by a consortium of for-profit corporations hoping to fuel adoption of a beneficial new standard.

Bitcoin transctions are recorded in a public ledger known as the ____________.

Why can't big firms simply wait until disruptive innovations prove themselves before they invest in these new areas?

The acronym VoIP is considered by many to be a disruptive innovation. It refers to:

Low-margin retailers are interested in bitcoin because it may allow the elimination of fees associated with credit card transactions.

Incentives for U.S. consumer adoption of bitcoin are quite high.

ARM provides logic in the majority of smartphones, including products by Apple and Samsung.

ARM is one of the only firms, aside from Intel, that has scale allowing it to own and operate its own fabs.

One way the package software firm, Intuit has approached the future and avoided disruptive innovation was to ______________.

Intuit has avoided disruption in the shift away from packaged software by developing products that leverage cloud computing, some of which are initially provided for free.

Disruptive technology is also called disruptive _____.

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