Dms 202 Technonoly And Innovation Management Question Paper
Dms 202 Technonoly And Innovation Management
Course:Diploma In Business Management
Institution: Kca University question papers
Exam Year:2014
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2013/2014
STAGE V ORDINARY EXAMINATION FOR THE DIPLOMA IN
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
DMS 202 TECHNONOLY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
DATE: AUGUST 2014
TIME: 1 1/2 Hours
INSTRUCTION: Answer any THREE questions
QUESTION ONE: (20 MARKS)
a) Define innovation
[2 Marks]
b) Discuss FOUR reasons why it is important for innovation to diffuse a move? [8 Marks]
c) Discuss FIVE ways in which technology and innovation can assist a company to achieve
its major development plans.
[10 Marks]
QUESTION TWO: (20 MARKS)
a) Define organizational Development
[2 Marks]
b) Discuss THREE main reasons evident to why people do resist change in organizations.
[6Marks]
c)
There is variety of techniques that a manager and others in organization can use to reduce
resistance to change. Discuss any TWO.
d)
[4 Marks]
The need for change in an organization can come from external or internal forces.
Explain FOUR such factors found in Toyota Kenya Company.
[8 Marks]
QUESTION THREE: (20 MARKS)
(a) Compare and contrast innovation and Entrepreneurship. [2 Marks]
(b) What do you understand by the term idea diffusion? [2 Marks]
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(c) List at least THREE stakeholders of Innovation. [6 Marks]
d) Explain FIVE incentives that the government may provide to innovators. [10 Marks]
QUESTION FOUR: (20 MARKS)
(a)
Discuss with examples the following types of Innovations.
Product Innovation.
Process Innovation.
Organizational innovation.
(b)
[12 Marks]
Brainstorming is one of the idea generation processes, State FOUR guidelines to
brainstorming process.
[8 Marks]
QUESTION FIVE: (20 MARKS)
a)
Discuss FIVE measures that a company can use to determine the effectiveness and
appropriateness of an innovation. [10 Marks]
b) Relate technology and innovation to entrepreneurial opportunities [4 Marks]
c) Discuss Three forces that promote research and development in an organization
[6 Marks]
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