IS 301 End Term Exam Questions and Correct
Answers.
Zara encourages employee use of technology by tying employee salaries to sales
performance.
True
Zara's clothing look like high fashion, but are comparatively inexpensive.
True
The Fair factories clearinghouse is subject to network effects.
True
Zara's staff members regularly collect data from customers at its stores. This data is used
to:
inform desingers on customer perefernce and staff on store sales results
A(n)_____ is a transaction process that captures customer purchase information.
POS
Zara's IT expenditure is low by fashion industry standards and is also highly
effective. Which of the following makes this possible?
Targeting technology investment at points in the value chain where it has the most
significant impact.
An information system is an intergrated solution that combines six componets: hardware,
software, telecommucations, data, procedures, and the people who interact with and are
impacted by the system
True
The e-commerce strategy that blends online and offline sales is called
, Omnichannel
At zara, clothes are ironed in advance and packed on hangers, with security and price
tags affixed. This system means that empolyees in zara stores simply move items from
shipping box to store racks, spending most of their time on:
Value-added functions like helping customers find what they want
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.
True
Many disruptive firms were started by former employees of the disrupted giants.
True
Incentives for the U.S. consumer adoption of bitcion are quite high
False
Disruptive innovations dont need to perform better than incumbents; they simply need
to perform well enough to appeal to their customers (T/F)
True
Identifying and nurturing potentially disruptive technologies requires constant
vigilance and relentless and broad environmental scanning.
True
which of the following is way to recoginze potentially disruptive innovations?
seeking the opinions of venture capitalist, research acadmeics, and passionate internal
engineering staff.
which of the following is true of disruptive technologies?
Intitally underperforming incumbents, over time performance attributes improve to the
point where they invade established markets
Answers.
Zara encourages employee use of technology by tying employee salaries to sales
performance.
True
Zara's clothing look like high fashion, but are comparatively inexpensive.
True
The Fair factories clearinghouse is subject to network effects.
True
Zara's staff members regularly collect data from customers at its stores. This data is used
to:
inform desingers on customer perefernce and staff on store sales results
A(n)_____ is a transaction process that captures customer purchase information.
POS
Zara's IT expenditure is low by fashion industry standards and is also highly
effective. Which of the following makes this possible?
Targeting technology investment at points in the value chain where it has the most
significant impact.
An information system is an intergrated solution that combines six componets: hardware,
software, telecommucations, data, procedures, and the people who interact with and are
impacted by the system
True
The e-commerce strategy that blends online and offline sales is called
, Omnichannel
At zara, clothes are ironed in advance and packed on hangers, with security and price
tags affixed. This system means that empolyees in zara stores simply move items from
shipping box to store racks, spending most of their time on:
Value-added functions like helping customers find what they want
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.
True
Many disruptive firms were started by former employees of the disrupted giants.
True
Incentives for the U.S. consumer adoption of bitcion are quite high
False
Disruptive innovations dont need to perform better than incumbents; they simply need
to perform well enough to appeal to their customers (T/F)
True
Identifying and nurturing potentially disruptive technologies requires constant
vigilance and relentless and broad environmental scanning.
True
which of the following is way to recoginze potentially disruptive innovations?
seeking the opinions of venture capitalist, research acadmeics, and passionate internal
engineering staff.
which of the following is true of disruptive technologies?
Intitally underperforming incumbents, over time performance attributes improve to the
point where they invade established markets
