MIST 2090 MIDTERM 1 UGA EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Organized integration of hardware and software technologies, data, processes, and human
elements designed to produce timely, integrated, relevant, accurate, and useful information for
decision-making purposes - ANS Management Information Systems (MIS)
Rapidly increasing and expanding capabilities of machines - ANS Machine (defining the
domain)
Large and influential young companies that bear little resemblance to the established
incumbents in their industries (yet are deeply disrupting them) - ANS Platform (defining the
domain)
The startlingly large amount of human knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm distributed all
over the world, now able to be focused online - ANS Crowd (defining the domain)
We know more than we can tell - ANS Polanyi's paradox
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, give 4 extremely successful companies that have ZERO assets - ANS uber, facebook, alibaba,
airbnb
New combinations of minds and machines are changing the way businesses execute their most
important... - ANS processes
Pioneering companies are bringing together products and platforms to transform their... -
ANS Offerings
The core and the crowd are altering what ________ themselves look like - ANS Organizations
The counterpart of machine intelligence - ANS Human mind
The counterparts of platforms - ANS Products
The counterpart of the crowd - ANS The core
"Many successful incumbent companies—in fact, most of them—did not survive... - ANS The
transition from one power source to another"
The tendency to favor the "here and now" and to reject potential change - ANS status quo
bias
Why is the status quo bias important to avoid in business? - ANS Recognizing developments
in society (like a new technology) is crucial to keeping a business going. Failing to adapt to
change will result in bankruptcy because nobody is going to continue to use a business that is
lagging behind others.
2 @COPYRIGHT 2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Organized integration of hardware and software technologies, data, processes, and human
elements designed to produce timely, integrated, relevant, accurate, and useful information for
decision-making purposes - ANS Management Information Systems (MIS)
Rapidly increasing and expanding capabilities of machines - ANS Machine (defining the
domain)
Large and influential young companies that bear little resemblance to the established
incumbents in their industries (yet are deeply disrupting them) - ANS Platform (defining the
domain)
The startlingly large amount of human knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm distributed all
over the world, now able to be focused online - ANS Crowd (defining the domain)
We know more than we can tell - ANS Polanyi's paradox
1 @COPYRIGHT 2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, give 4 extremely successful companies that have ZERO assets - ANS uber, facebook, alibaba,
airbnb
New combinations of minds and machines are changing the way businesses execute their most
important... - ANS processes
Pioneering companies are bringing together products and platforms to transform their... -
ANS Offerings
The core and the crowd are altering what ________ themselves look like - ANS Organizations
The counterpart of machine intelligence - ANS Human mind
The counterparts of platforms - ANS Products
The counterpart of the crowd - ANS The core
"Many successful incumbent companies—in fact, most of them—did not survive... - ANS The
transition from one power source to another"
The tendency to favor the "here and now" and to reject potential change - ANS status quo
bias
Why is the status quo bias important to avoid in business? - ANS Recognizing developments
in society (like a new technology) is crucial to keeping a business going. Failing to adapt to
change will result in bankruptcy because nobody is going to continue to use a business that is
lagging behind others.
2 @COPYRIGHT 2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
