Michael Porter Draws a Firm Distinction Between Operational Effectiveness and a Strategy.Briefly

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Essay

Michael Porter draws a firm distinction between operational effectiveness and a strategy.Briefly describe this distinction and identify when a company can claim that it has a strategy.

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Definitions:

Flagella

Long, whip-like appendages that protrude from the cell body of certain prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, used for locomotion or sensory functions.

Serial Endosymbiosis

The hypothesis that certain organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as symbiotic prokaryotes that lived inside other free-living prokaryotic cells.

Mitochondria

Organelles found in the cytoplasm of most eukaryotic cells, responsible for producing energy through the process of oxidative phosphorylation.

Diploid

An organism or cell having two sets of chromosomes, typically one set from each parent, denoted as 2n.