What Are Porter's Three Generic Strategies

question 347

Multiple Choice

What are Porter's three generic strategies?

• A)Evaluates an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to identify significant influences that work for or against business strategies.
• B)Analyzes the competitive forces within the environment in which a company operates to assess the potential for profitability in an industry.
• C)Views a firm as a series of business processes, each of which adds value to the product or service.
• D)Generic business strategies that are neither organization nor industry specific and can be applied to any business, product, or service.

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Definitions:

Cost Object

Anything for which a separate measurement of costs is desired, such as products, services, projects, customers, or activities.

Cost Object

Anything for which cost is measured and assigned, such as products, services, projects, or customers.

Direct Materials

Raw materials that can be directly linked to the production of finished goods and are an integral part of the finished product.

Manufacturers

Entities or individuals that produce goods using raw materials and labor, often involving machinery and equipment.