Exam 11: Innovation and Change

_____ refers to innovations in products or services that typically start small and end up completely replacing an existing product or service technology for producers and consumers.

_____ refer to changes in the values,attitudes,expectations,beliefs,abilities,and behavior of employees.

_____ pertain to the administrative domain in an organization.

Which of the following is a difference between episodic change and continuous change?

_____ refers to coming up with new ideas for products or services.

The Research and Development Unit of Blue Lagoon,a multinational electronic brand,has released another update to Lagoon X4848i,a smartphone.This latest update is their fourth within a year.This adaptation to environmental shift is an example of the company's response to _____.

Discuss in detail the techniques employed by managers to overcome resistance.

_____ means an organization creates an organic structure when such a structure is needed for the initiation of new ideas.

Organizational innovation is considered the adoption of a new idea or behavior by an organization.

If an organization has an organic structure,lower-level employees have less freedom and autonomy.

_____ is the generation of novel ideas that may meet perceived needs or respond to opportunities.

Product and service innovations are designed to make production more efficient or to produce greater volume.

Clint Hill,CEO of Oregano Systems,a software engineering company,holds internal contests on the company intranet to get his engineers to speak up with their ideas for improving the company.Employees vote on their favorites and the winner takes home a cash prize.In this scenario,which of the following approaches does Oregano Systems utilize?

A(n)_____ is a separate,small,informal,highly autonomous,and often secretive group that focuses on breakthrough ideas for the business.

Organization development is a step-by-step process to solve a specific problem.

Idea champions fight to overcome natural resistance to change and to convince others of the merit of a new idea.

Which of the following approaches is used to incorporate structures and management processes that are appropriate to both the creation and the implementation of innovation?

Discuss the large group intervention approach.

Horizontal coordination decreases both the amount and the variety of information for new product development.

Implementation occurs when managers or other decision makers choose to go ahead with a proposed idea.