According to the Manager's Shoptalk of Chapter 2, Latin American

question 13

Multiple Choice

According to the Manager's Shoptalk of chapter 2, Latin American executives are more less to use tools such as:

• A) customer segmentation and business process reengineering.
• B) consumer ethnography and corporate blogs.
• C) downsizing.
• D) activity-based management and virtual teams.
• E) scenario planning and lean operations.

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Definitions:

Surplus

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Shortage

Situation in which the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied.

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