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Dms 202 Technology &Amp; Innovation Management Question Paper

Dms 202 Technology &Amp; 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 TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
DATE: APRIL 2014
TIME: 1 1/2 Hours
INSTRUCTION: Answer any THREE questions
QUESTION ONE: (20 MARKS)
a) Give TWO areas where Entrepreneurship has been used for good and evil in Kenya.
[2 Marks]
b) Define innovation [2 Marks]
c) List at least THREE stakeholders of Innovation [6 Marks]
d) Explain FIVE incentives that the government may provide to innovators [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.
[4 Marks]
d) The need for change in an organization can come from external or internal forces. Explain
FOUR such factors found in Toyota Kenya Company.
QUESTION THREE: (20 MARKS)
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[8Marks]
a) What do you understand by the term idea diffusion?
[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 FOUR: (20 MARKS)
a) Discuss with examples the following types of Innovations.
Product Innovation.
Process Innovation.
Organizational innovation.
[12Marks]
b) 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) Explain the following terms as Used in Innovation;
i) Copyright.
ii) Patent.
[4 Marks]
c) Discuss Three forces that promote research and development in an organization
[6Marks]
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