In Today's Highly Competitive Global Markets, Operations Managers

question 140

Multiple Choice

In today's highly competitive global markets, operations managers:

• A) realize that a product that offers better features attracts more customers than one that has a lower price.
• B) recognize that achieving efficiency is more important than achieving effectiveness.
• C) focus primarily on keeping costs low to make a profit while keeping prices competitive.
• D) focus solely on the benefits of products, while completely ignoring the costs of manufacturing those products.

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