A Team Formed at Intercom Inc

question 52

Multiple Choice

A team formed at Intercom Inc. to generate ideas for new products conducts frequent meetings and engages in activities such as mind mapping and brainstorming. Most of the meetings are conducted at informal locations away from office. These workplaces are called ________.

• A) skunkworks
• B) idea funnels
• C) research centers
• D) stage-gate systems
• E) contextual bases

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Definitions:

Advertising

The process or career involved in creating promotional material for goods or services.

Time Clocks

Devices used by employers to record the number of hours worked by employees, ensuring accurate tracking of time for payroll purposes.

Incentive Conflict

A situation where parties have different, competing goals. In agency relationships, the different goals of principals and agents is an example of incentive conflict.

Agent

A person who acts on behalf of another individual (a principal). Principal–agent problems are created by the incentive conflict between principals and agents.