Which of the following strategies is devised to raise switching costs?

Which of the following strategies is devised to raise switching costs?
 
  A) A chain of supermarkets offers higher discounts to its regular customers.
  B) A vendor reduces the range of products that it distributes to retailers.
  C) An automotive company conducts a trade contest.
  D) A company offers commission to its employees for pushing the company's products.

 Q. 2

The bullwhip effect can be reduced if ________.
 
  A) suppliers occasionally receive faxed purchase orders from the retailer
  B) suppliers are provided with warehouse management software
  C) suppliers have real-time access to up-to-date retail sales data
  D) suppliers are provided with global trade management software

 Q. 3

How do agile techniques overcome the problems of the SDLC?
 
  A) Agile techniques anticipate requirement changes.
  B) Agile techniques deliver products at the very end of the process.
  C) Agile techniques generate value at the very end.
  D) Agile techniques design the overall system in the start of the process.

 Q. 4

What are tags? Describe the uses of a tag.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

 Q. 5

Jonathan Collins, a customer relations manager at a retail firm in Minnesota, has accumulated contacts with clients and suppliers throughout his years in the organization.
 
  Which of the following is a type of intellectual capital he is contributing to in this case?A) equity capital
  B) structural capital
  C) human capital
  D) social capital

 Q. 6

In a table, a field can contain either numeric data or text but not a combination of both.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

 Q. 7

The choice of software development environments and hardware architecture is affected by the experience and capabilities of an organization's IT staff.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false