First-order change in an organization is significant change at ...

[savannahhooper]

First-order change in an organization is significant change at many different levels in the way a firm operates.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

Name each stage of the innovation process and explain what takes place during it.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Ptupou85]

Answer to Question 1

FALSE

Answer to Question 2

Innovation occurs gradually, and scientists have identified five species stages. Stage l: Setting the Agenda involves creating a mission statement; that is, a document describing an organization's overall direction and general goals for accomplishing that movement. Stage 2: Setting the Stage may involve narrowing certain broad goals into more specific tasks and gathering the resources to meet them. It also may involve assessing the environment, both outside and inside the organization, and searching for anything that may support or inhibit later efforts to break the rules by being creative. Stage 3: Producing the Ideas involves coming up with new ideas and testing them. It also is the stage in which individual and small group creativity enters the picture. Stage 4: Testing and Implementing the Ideas happens after an initial group of individuals has developed an idea and other parts of the organization become involved. Resources in the task domain are important at this stage. Stage 5: Assessing the Outcome is the final stage, and three outcomes are possible. If the resulting idea has been a total success, it will be accepted and carried out in the future. The process is over if the idea has been a complete failure, in which case there is no good reason to continue. If the new idea shows promise, however, and has made some progress toward the organization's objectives but still has problems, the process starts again at Stage 2.