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Intro to IS Innovations and New Technologies

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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:

a)

Radical innovation

b)

Disruptive innovation

c)

Incremental innovation

d)

Open innovation

2.

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:

a)

Process innovation

b)

Radical innovation

c)

Incremental innovation

d)

Disruptive innovation

3.

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?

a)

AI-native workflows

b)

Tech sovereignty

c)

Cloud-native systems

d)

AI backbone

4.

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:

a)

AI-native workflows

b)

AI backbone

c)

Agentic AI

d)

Design Thinking

5.

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:

a)

Tech sovereignty

b)

Linear innovation model

c)

Cloud-native systems

d)

Radical innovation

6.

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?

a)

Linear model

b)

Agile innovation

c)

Design Thinking

d)

Open innovation

7.

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:

a)

Disruptive innovation

b)

Incremental innovation

c)

Process innovation

d)

Radical innovation

8.

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?

a)

Ethics by Design

b)

Responsible AI – Non-maleficence

c)

VSD

d)

Innovation Adoption Curve

9.

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?

a)

Early majority

b)

Late majority

c)

Innovators

d)

Laggards

10.

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:

a)

AI-native workflows

b)

Agentic AI

c)

AI backbone

d)

Cloud sovereignty