Chapter 9: Innovation and Competitiveness Flashcards
Adopting world class supply management practices can be viewed asa form of _____ innovation
Non-product
Innovativeness can be viewed as a key element of what orientation
An entrepreneurial orientation
What are the four elements of an entrepreneurial approach to competing?
Seeking opportunity
Innovating
Acting proactively
Taking controlled risks
The undertaking of a marketing strategy that actively pursues a new opportunity ad has relatively high levels of innovation, proactivity, and controlled risk taking
Entrepreneurial marketing
Acting as if their organization is a high-growth start-up with the result that their organization shows at least some of the flexibility and boldness of a start-up is art of what approach?
Acting entrepreneurially
Creating something new and making it useful is which dimension of entrepreneurial marketing?
Innovation
Doing something before others do it is known as what?
proactivity
Not “bet the farm” risk taling. rather , entrepreneurial risk taking is knowing what risks are and doing something to control risk
Controlled Risk -Taking
Actively looking for opportunities and constantly evaluating how attractive prospective opportunities are
Opportunity Seeking
What’s the cycle of activity when acting entrepreneurially?
It begins with opportunity recognition and idea generation. next Business idea generation takes place and it involves business planning, experimentation, and obtaining resources. Next, the plan is launched, feedback is collected, and revisions take place.
Any way of doing something is also known as what?
technology
What is the ultimate way of reducing risk?
To change the rules of the market
The undertaking of a marketing strategy that actively pursues a new opportunity and has relatively high levels of innovation, proactivity, and controlled risk taking.
Entrepreneurial marketing
Three key traits are indicators that someone will be comfortable acting in an entrepreneurial environment, they are?
Ability to persistently pursue a passion, comfortable trying new things, and bias for action.
The key activity for controlling risk
establishing learning mechanisms
What are the two major impediments to entrepreneurial marketing?
A requirement for extensive justification and a tendency to punish failure
What are three ways to identify opportunities, create proactivity, and take controlled risks?
Removing impediments and providing incentives
Contact networks aimed at facilitating execution of marketing activities?
Contact network for execution
business model innovations that re not product or technology related are often the most _____ innovations
disruptive
This can be viewed not just as the creation of new things but also as new and better ways of doing what has been done before
innovation
Innovation drives free market economy: T or F
T
A way of doing something based on scientific principles or knowledge.
Technology