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Question

1) Which of the following is not an example of organizations with a focus on achieving business results?

a) understanding the central purpose of their business, including responsibilities to customers, investors, and other stakeholders

b) recognize who their customers/ clients are and changing their perspective

c) understand their role and responsibilities in relationship to the performance goals of each of the organizations units and subunits

2) Agile organizations adapt swiftly without losing _____.

a) perception

b) momentum

c) control

3) Systems thinking is an approach for developing models to promote our understanding of events, patterns of behavior resulting in the events, and even more importantly, the underlying structure responsible for the patterns of ____.

a) approach

b) actions

c) behavior

4) Several occurrences can happen when collaboration is not treated as a disciplined process. The following are examples except

a) progress that is not tracked or managed systematically

b) management spends less time evaluating the results of collaborative decisions than evaluating the processes used to make those decisions

c) haphazard attention to agendas, timing, minutes, and other communication responsibilities

5) Identify the incorrect statement. Agility is more about your inner strengths and how you use them to cope with the changes brought and driven by the external factors, spend time in analyzing your own business and understand where it is headed; all provide insights into _____.

a) termination process

b) the ability of middle management

c) your organizational culture

6) Which of the following is not one of the ten principles that support building the collaborative organization?

a) treat collaboration as a disciplined process

b) focus collaboration on achieving business results

c) design and promote in-flexible organizations

7) One method for future-proofing a business that experts suggest is: collaboration with other companies, influencers and _______

a) leaders

b) customers

c) vendors

8) Which of the statements below may not be a way to innovate and drive change?

a) acquire startups that are thinking outside of the box

b) establish an innovation lab

c) discourage your team not to come up with new ideas

9) Which of the following is not one of the signs that indicate a systems thinking approach is most likely warranted?

a) there are multiple perspective on just what the situation is, and how to deal with it

b) a previously applied fix seems to overshoot the goal

c) things seem to regulate timely

10) Most organizations have pockets of excellent collaboration found in specific internal teams, with specific customer groups, or even within ____ project endeavors.

a) internal

b) large

c) small

11) Which is not a step in the disciplined approach to systems thinking?

a) develop an alternate structure

b) define the situation

c) develop an adaptive approach

12) Identify the incorrect statement. Today organizations need to devise effective and ongoing education and training to develop 'dynamic capability' among employees to _____.

a) solve problems

b) innovate

c) find outside organizations to predict change