Business English
Please choose the correct tense of the verb in brackets for the following paragraph on Innovation.
Managers who are ______ (skill) at executing clearly defined strategies are ill equipped for out-of-the-box thinking. In addition, when good ideas do emerge, they’re often doomed because the company is ______ (organize) to support one way of ___ (do) business and doesn’t have the processes or metrics to support a new one. Without a doubt, if you tackle business innovation systematically, rather than ______ (hope) people will get creative suddenly, you improve the odds of success by ______ ( study) patterns through existing data.
One could imagine Rolls-Royce ______( extend) this capability further—to engines for cruise ships and turbines—and even build a platform around it. The company _____ (can) develop an IT-based system with the capacity to handle large volumes of sensor-generated data, and open it up to third-party applications geared to particular industrial contexts.