BUS 201 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Inkjet Printing, Disruptive Innovation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 201
• Professor: Zorana Svedic

Document Summary

Managers lack is a habit of thinking about their organization"s capabilities as carefully as they think about individual people"s capabilities. To succeed, good managers need to be skilled not just in assessing people but also in assessing the abilities and disabilities of their organization as a whole. If an organization faces major change, the worst possible approach may be to make drastic adjustments to the existing organization. 3 factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: resources. Tangible resources such as people, equipment, technologies, capital. Less tangible such as product design, information, brands and relationships. Patterns of interaction, coordination, communication, and decision making employees use to transform resources into products and services of great work. Formal processes: more visible processes, explicitly defined and documented. Dilemmas of manage is that processes are set up that employees perform tasks in a. Informal processes: routines or ways of working that evolve over time, less visible consistent way, they should not be changed.