Just finished my exam, need to know this anwser :)

**mattonline** · 06-04-2007 09:09 AM

Ok just finished my exam, and it asked the question of

'what are the impacts of company xxx implementing major technoliogical change

company xxx was a glass and frame manufacture (for glasses)

i put things down like,
CAD/CAM
robotics
mass production
communication - video confrencing
billing fuctions on the PC for administration
easy cash flow creation on spead sheets

and i talked about training workers to use the machinery and costs of implementing it etc

would you suggest this to be correct?

**ChaseManset** · 06-04-2007 11:02 AM

Wouldn't an impact be a reduction in costs, higher quality, etc...?

**mattonline** · 06-04-2007 01:47 PM

i think i may have put higher quality, and said it would benift from economies of scale

**The Stealthy One** · 06-04-2007 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by mattonline

Ok just finished my exam, and it asked the question of

'what are the impacts of company xxx implementing major technoliogical change

company xxx was a glass and frame manufacture (for glasses)

i put things down like,
CAD/CAM
robotics
mass production
communication - video confrencing
billing fuctions on the PC for administration
easy cash flow creation on spead sheets

and i talked about training workers to use the machinery and costs of implementing it etc

would you suggest this to be correct?

I'm sorry to tell you this, but you got it all wrong. What you listed were methods for implementing new technologies (and new technologies themselves). Instead, what they were looking for was how the company would be impacted upon the introduction of new technologies into the business.

**mattonline** · 06-05-2007 02:52 AM

hmm, i did say there be high start up costs, and make it easier for the business etc, retrainging staff would be a problem, the time lost training staff, somaybe ill get some marks for them, i did also put CAD/ CAM, robotics etc, which maybe wrong,

but will i get the marks for the retraining etc...

**soccer-boy** · 06-05-2007 03:21 AM

Your point about having to retrain staff is correct. They may also react negatively to change.

What exam were you doing/what level?

**mattonline** · 06-05-2007 08:05 AM

i was doing a AS level exam BS3, i'm doing my A levels atm so this was my 3rd resit hahaha, i got 2 C's in the exam before couple marks off a B, but i was aiming for an A, but will be happy with a B,

i done really well on all the other questions and then this one come up lol, will settle for 3/8 marks for this question :P

hopfully i'll do well,

They may also react negatively to change

i was going to put this, but run out of time, along with a number of other points, just wasn't expecting this question really, they asked me this in january when i took this exam, so i was like 'aww it wont come up' :P was wrong :>