Exam 1: Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise

Technology experts in the area of process design:

SEO and SEM are key tech industry acronyms that have become vital parts of the accounting professional's operating toolkit.

____________________ and ____________________ are turning sophisticated, high-powered computing into a utility available to even the smallest businesses and nonprofits.

The phrase _____________ is often used to describe the trend of putting "smarts" (meaning computing and telecommunications technology) putting into everyday products such as lamps, watches, thermostats, and door locks; as well as embedding tech into industrial goods.

Many of the careers in marketing are highly tech-centric.

Technology experts in the area of _____ specialize in technology for competitive advantage.

Yahoo! was started by _____ and _____.

_____ was just twenty-one when he founded Apple.

While process redesign, supply chain management, and factory automation are all tech-centric operations, service operations are not.

The founding technology entrepreneurs behind many leading firms, such as Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, got their start in their early 30s, leveraging university study and knowledge from their first post-college jobs to create disruptive new firms.

_____ has emerged as a catalyst for global change, with Facebook and Twitter playing key organizing roles in uprisings worldwide.

In two decades, the nation of ________ tech sector has grown from "almost nothing" to a $120 billion industry, expanding even during the recent global recession.

A company uses radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to keep track of its inventory. This is an example of the impact of technology in the area of _____.

How has technology changed the marketing landscape?

The _____ department in an organization not only ensures that systems get built and keep running but also take on strategic roles targeted at proposing solutions for how technology can give the firm a competitive edge.

The number of U.S. patent applications waiting approval has significantly declined in the past decade.

Funding projects via online efforts such as Kickstarter are referred to by the term _____________.

Some of the radical changes brought about by new technologies include:

Data analytics and business intelligence are driving discovery and innovation.

David Karp, founder of the website Tumblr, sold the website to Google for $1.1 Billion