University of Southern Mississippi

MANAGEMENT 300

1)Organizational innovation is defined as “doing things differently” inside an organization.

2. Companies that want to sustain a competitive advantage must understand and protect

themselves from the strategic threats of innovation.

3. Declaring victory too soon is one of the mistakes managers often make in the refreezing stage of change.
4. According to Kurt Lewin, managing organizational change is a simple process that requires organizational dialogue, change intervention, and reformatting.
5. When companies don’t anticipate, recognize, neutralize, or adapt to the internal or external

pressures that threaten their survival, it results in            .

6. Technological innovation not only makes it possible to duplicate the benefits obtained from a company's distinctive advantage but also quickly creates an opportunity to turn a company's competitive advantage into a competitive disadvantage.
7. Fully functional change occurs when incremental improvements are made to a dominant technological design. In a fully functional change, the improved version of the technology is fully backward compatible with the older version.
8. Nearly all technology cycles follow a bell-shaped pattern of innovation.

9. Dominant designs emerge because they solve a practical problem, because of the negotiations of independent standards bodies, or because of critical mass.
10. Before TREX Mobiles launched its latest smartphone, it built a prototype of the phone and

tested its performance repeatedly, improving the model each time. This process is called                                                                                                                                                                      .

11. Technological discontinuities are followed by discontinuous change, which is characterized by technological substitution and design competition.
12. In the context of organizational development interventions, the purpose of                    interventions is to change the character and performance of an organization, business unit, or department.
13. Over the long run, the best way for a company to sustain competitive advantage is to create

year after year.

14. The   approach to innovation asserts 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.

15.           is defined as a philosophy and collection of planned change interventions designed to improve an organization’s long-term health and performance.
16. Which of the following is a component of a creative work environment?
17. Feldman Films is a company associated with photography. The development of the digital camera forced Feldman Films into the innovation stream because the new imaging process was a(n)      .
18. A technology                        begins with the birth of a new technology and ends when that technology reaches its limits and dies as it is replaced by a newer, substantially better technology.