Carla, a Restaurateur Who Is New to the Field, Meets

question 12

Multiple Choice

Carla, a restaurateur who is new to the field, meets a veteran chef and restaurateur, Giovanni. Carla wishes to analyze the purchasing pattern of her customer base. Which of the following is most likely to be a piece of sound advice that Giovanni would offer to Carla?

• A) Carla should use her restaurant's distributed systems to know more about her customers' purchasing patterns.
• B) Carla should avoid using the restaurant's integrated system to analyze her customers' purchasing patterns.
• C) Carla should support strategic and less structured managerial decisions to ensure that standardization occurs.
• D) Carla should support less specific and fluid managerial decisions to ensure that standardization occurs.

Comprehend the difference between mechanistic and organic structures.

Recognize the role of unrelated business diversification within a corporation.

Grasp the concept and emergence of virtual organizations.

Understand the relationship between organizational structure and business strategy.