16 Questions
Wozniak was successfully hired by HP to work on their computer project.
False
The founders of Adobe, Warnock and Geschke, initially worked for HP before starting their own company.
False
The founders of Adobe felt frustrated at HP because their innovative ideas were not being recognized.
False
Wozniak proposed creating a printer interface when he approached HP to work on a computer project.
True
Tanaka was promoted to a senior position before winning the Nobel Prize.
False
Innovative people are usually effective salespeople.
False
Xerox capitalized well on the inventions from its Palo Alto Research Center.
False
Xerox lost billions of dollars by not exploiting the work of the computer scientists at PARC.
True
Henry Ford invented the car.
False
Michael Dell invented the computer.
False
Advocates are satisfied when decision makers give them a first nod.
False
Administrative activities account for 90 percent of the time it takes to get products to market in studies of product development.
True
General Brehon Somervell envisioned a single building to house all the people working for the United States Army in Washington, DC.
True
J.Mays and Freeman Thomas convinced the leadership of Volkswagen to design a new sports car.
False
G.C. 'Jack' Hanna's idea of creating a mechanical tomato harvester was well-received by his colleagues at the University of California, Davis.
False
Bernie Meyerson's suggestion of adding silicon to computer chips was immediately accepted by IBM.
False
Test your knowledge on Quadrant 4 and General Brehon Somervell's vision for a single mammoth building to house the thousands of people working in Washington, DC for the United States Army in 1941.
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