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WorksheetsIntro to IS Innovations and New Technologies
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
A company has been making small, regular updates to its enterprise software—improving the user interface, optimizing database queries, and adding minor features requested by users. These changes are low-risk and keep the product competitive without overhauling the core system. This approach best exemplifies:
Radical innovation
Disruptive innovation
Incremental innovation
Open innovation
A startup develops a simple, low-cost mobile app that allows freelancers to manage invoices and payments easily. Initially, it serves a niche market ignored by large financial software providers. Over time, it gains widespread adoption and begins displacing traditional accounting software. This is most aligned with:
Process innovation
Radical innovation
Incremental innovation
Disruptive innovation
A government wants to ensure that its citizens' health data is stored and processed within the country, using domestically developed AI models and local cloud infrastructure. Which trend does this initiative most directly reflect?
AI-native workflows
Tech sovereignty
Cloud-native systems
AI backbone
A financial institution is implementing an AI system that can autonomously detect fraud, analyze transactions, and initiate account holds without human intervention. This system sets its own goals, learns from past incidents, and interacts with other banking APIs. This best describes:
AI-native workflows
AI backbone
Agentic AI
Design Thinking
A software development team is building a new e-commerce platform designed to scale automatically based on user traffic, using microservices and containerization. They deploy updates continuously through automated pipelines. This architecture is characteristic of:
Tech sovereignty
Linear innovation model
Cloud-native systems
Radical innovation
During a project kickoff, a team spends time interviewing end-users, building empathy maps, and defining the problem from the user’s perspective before brainstorming solutions. Which innovation model are they following?
Linear model
Agile innovation
Design Thinking
Open innovation
A tech company is investing heavily in a new type of computing that uses quantum bits instead of classical bits. The technology is still in early research, carries high risk, and could take a decade to commercialize, but it promises to revolutionize data encryption and drug discovery. This is an example of:
Disruptive innovation
Incremental innovation
Process innovation
Radical innovation
An organization is adopting a framework that integrates human values like privacy, fairness, and autonomy into the design of its new AI-powered hiring tool from the very beginning. Which ethical framework is this?
Ethics by Design
Responsible AI – Non-maleficence
VSD
Innovation Adoption Curve
A company launches a new smart home device that initially attracts tech enthusiasts who love trying cutting-edge products. These users provide feedback and help refine the product before it reaches the mainstream. Which adopter group do these enthusiasts represent?
Early majority
Late majority
Innovators
Laggards
A firm is developing a unified AI platform that serves as the foundation for all its operations—from customer service to logistics—using large language models, real-time data pipelines, and governance tools. This describes the trend called:
AI-native workflows
Agentic AI
AI backbone
Cloud sovereignty
