A characteristic of a service that means that every time you provide the service, it will be different.
What is Variability?
100
Workers understand the importance of their tasks to the rest of the company
What is Task Significance?
100
A scam where people are sent official-looking emails in an attempt to get their private information
What is Phishing?
100
A motivation theory that assumes that work is natural, people don't mind, even like, responsibility, and the average worker can contribute more intellectually than given credit for
What is Theory Y?
100
The ability to understand the big picture in any company
What is Conceptual Skills?
200
Provides utility at the most fundamental level
What is Core Benefit?
200
This theory suggests that effort leads to performance, which leads to a reward.
What is Expectancy Theory?
200
Programs that provides instructions to the computer to do what it's supposed to do
What is Software?
200
The phase in the PLC where sales and profits increase rapidly
What is Growth?
200
When data is not raw anymore, but meaningful to the user.
What is Information?
300
The characteristics that separate one product from another, but compete to satisfy the same (or similar) needs in a customer group
What is Product Differentiation?
300
Basically, they're backup plans that companies consider for various possible situations - in case things don't pan out as they were supposed to for plan A.
What is Contingency Planning?
300
Private, internal network that only employees of an organazation can access
What is Intranet?
300
A balance of employee power and management power
What is Democratic Leadership?
300
Every product goes through phases, from an introduction to growth, maturity, and then decline.
What is Product Life Cycle?
400
When companies pay to have their brands on various media outlets, like movies and TV shows
What is Product Placement?
400
A strategy planning tool that compares the company's internal state to the external environment
What is a SWOT Analysis?
400
An internet company that is responsible to safely and securely conduct an electronic transfer of funds
What is a Cybermediary?
400
The acronym that describes businesses who provide goods and services to government agencies.
What is B2G?
400
Brand new ideas that radically change how people live.
What is Discontinuous Innovation?
500
A statement that sets the tone of how the company's product/service should be compared to the competitions'
What is Positioning Statement?
500
Determines how much decision making power is held by the few people at the top of the company's organizational chart.
What is Degree of Centralization?
500
Software and hardware that protects computers and computer systems from unauthorized access
What is Firewall?
500
The company that rejected the telephone because they didn't believe it would be a usable tool for communication
What is Western Union?
500
A professional that designs, maintains, and upgrades computer systems. In May of 2009, the average salary was $80,430