1. (TCO A) The relationship between speed of innovation and product obsolescence is (Points : 5) direct (as innovation speed increases, products become obsolete more quickly). inverse (as innovation speed increases, products become obsolete more slowly). indirect (there is an effect, but it cannot be directly determined). nonexistent (there is no relationship at all).
Question 2.2. (TCO A) Which of the following products would be considered novel? (Points : 5) A detergent advertises that it can remove spots. A company announces it has produced a recreational hovercraft for sale in toy stores. A cell phone company announces that it now offers text messaging. A college
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Question 11.11. (TCO F) If a firm invests in continuous innovation and willingly cannibalizes its existing products with more advanced products, the firm can (Points : 5) lose a significant number of customers. introduce the next generation product while continuing to reap profits from the current product. prevent competitors from achieving a significant technological gap. just use deployment as a mechanism to earn revenues from its innovations.
Question 12.12. (TCO F) Which of the following is an advantage of making a new generation of technology backward compatible? (Points : 5) Consumers will have to buy completely new complements. Consumer switching costs may be lower because they anticipate using their existing complements. Competitors will be unable to imitate the company's strategy of making the technology backward compatible. It is typically less expensive to make a new generation of technology backward compatible than to not make it backward compatible.
1. (TCO A) In the opening case, Honda was developing both hybrid electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Which do you think would take longer to diffuse through the market and why? (Points : 40)
A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a type of hybrid vehicle and electric vehicle which combines a conventional internal combustion engine(ICE) propulsion system with an electric propulsion system (hybrid vehicle drivetrain). The presence
The fifth member of the team is the medical records manager. She has a bachelors in healthcare management. Her expertise with HIPAA rules and regulations is crucial. It is her job to evaluate security of the new systems to ensure that patient confidentiality is not breached. She will have input form other healthcare managers as well as others in the medical records department.
During my research of Linux vendors, I have narrowed my options to three distinct vendors. I have found Red Hat, Novell, and Ubuntu were three of the best companies worldwide. Each vendor has their advantages and disadvantages. I will address the positive and negative points of each vendor. The main differences between the three vendors that I will discuss are cost, training & support, performance & reliability, and lastly availability.
Intel Corporation has been great in the past when it had seen success. But of the last couple decade its success has not been top shape. But to achieve this success they are reaching for they will need an effective deployment strategy within their market, Intel Corporation needs to implement a technology strategy that will showcase its encompasses ability to involve business groups throughout the planning process, while maintaining integration of the processes from within things like their corporate planning schedule, Intel’s plans should rapidly change within the market, and staying abreast of the technology curve while simultaneously achieving the largest returns conceivable on every initiative and areas of
1. What changes does FTP make to an ASCII file when you download it in ASCII mode to a windows machine from a Linux server? What changes are made when you download the file to a Mac?
A grandparent comes to you and asks you for a recommendation for a processor in a new computer. They explain that they are only going to use it to post pictures, view social media, and surf the web. Which processor do you recommend and why? Explain your answer. Use references to your spreadsheet.
can create flexibility, better customer service, and increased productivity. This will also create a home-based virtual office environment. This will help with employee retention, especially those that are experienced and skilled.
Write a paragraph (a minimum of five college-level sentences) below that summarizes what was accomplished in this lab, what you learned by performing it, how it relates to this week’s TCOs and other course material, and just as importantly, how you feel it will benefit you in your academic and professional career. (8 points) in this lab I am performing a switch start up and initial configuration. This lab showed me how to set up a motd for users accessing the switch. Also learned how to show passwords and encrypt them as well. This is very useful because a lot of time we (the IT dept) doesn’t want anyone to know what passwords are used to access the switches and
It would be detrimental for a company to refuse compliance of Microsoft's new standard. This is another complaint of critics. That manufacturers had no other choice but to do what Microsoft said, out of fear of their own company losing profits.
This century has been full of innovation. New technologies, new products, new services, whole new industries have emerged. Yet the call for innovation in business has never been more intense. Why? Here is my list of the top ten reasons for why we need innovation. 10. For economic growth This is the most often cited reason for needing innovation. Innovation is the route to economic growth. Industries are maturing. Products are maturing. Innovation is the creation and transformation of new knowledge into new products, processes, or services that meet market needs. As such, innovation creates new businesses and is the fundamental source of growth in business and industry. 9. For
The main component of a car would be the power that actually puts the car in motion. To be solely dependent on one power source is not a very good idea as it is not eco-friendly and at the same time not suitable. By 2040, half of all the new cars being sold will be hybrids, according to Exxon Mobile. Hybrid Cars are the cars that uses more than one power sources to run the car. It is usually referred to the Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) which has both the internal combustion engine and electric motors that generates power. One of the main problem with these hybrid cars is that their batteries are extremely heavy and takes up a large amount of space in the car. The concept of Hybrid cars can be a good thing to the environment, but definitely not for the car manufacturer or the customer. Hybrid cars have a convincing amount of weight due to their batteries, even with the existence of lithium-ion batteries. As a solution, Energy Storing Body Panels are used.
Q1. Use the Cyclic Innovation Model (Fig 1.9, pg 30) figure to illustrate the innovation process in this case and provide a brief description?
In efforts to display the pros and cons of owning a hybrid electric vehicle, the BMW i8 will be compared to the Honda Civic Type-R. To start off, the BMW i8 is a hybrid electric vehicle whilst the Honda Civic Type-R is a vehicle that runs on petrol only. Due to the design and structure of the i8, the
In 1908 the electric car suffered a big blow. That year, Henry Ford introduced the mass-produced Model T. It made gasoline-powered cars widely available and affordable. By 1912, the gasoline car cost only $650, while an electric car sold for $1,750. By the 1920s, the U.S. had much better roads connecting cities, which Americans were eager to explore. When crude oil was discovered in Texas, gas became cheap and was easily available to rural Americans, while few had electricity. By 1935, electric vehicles had all but disappeared (Energy.gov, 2014). Commercially available EVs hit the market again in 2011 (Larson, P., Viáfara, J., Parsons, R., Elias, A., 2014). Environmental concerns about air quality, growing concerns about global warming, and finite fossil fuel supplies prompted a new emphasis on the production of more fuel-efficient vehicles (Nayum, Klöckner., Mehmetoglu, 2016). These concerns led to the development of improvements in automobile materials, system technologies, and the design of improved rechargeable battery systems that are smaller, lighter weight, and have a longer lasting charge. Advances such as these have rapidly accelerated the design of better, more reliable EVs (Coffman, Bernstein, Wee, 2016). Unfortunately, sales of these vehicles are not progressing as quickly as had been hoped, some prominent reasons being that EV vehicles are still too expensive, consumers continue to have “range anxiety” (the fear of
For years, new technology has been, and is continuing to emerge in the society. One aspect that has been affected tremendously by it is our own environment. There are several different inventions created in order to help to protect our planet, and to help people to be more efficient with the use of energy. One such major invention is the HYBRID VEHICLE.
A number of hybrid vehicles have been built and tested since 1980. Some of these vehicles have impressed analysts with their performance and low levels of exhaust and petroleum consumption. Interest in hybrid vehicles jumped in late 1993 with the announcement of funding for two major