Sometimes a Company Can Short-Circuit the Task of Building an Organizational

question 90

Multiple Choice

Sometimes a company can short-circuit the task of building an organizational capability in-house by

• A)putting in high-incentive bonuses to reward individual employees who train hard to develop the desired capability.
• B)launching an extensive training effort to develop the capability quickly with newly hired employees.
• C)either acquiring a company that has already developed the capability or else acquiring the desired capability through collaborative efforts with outsiders having the requisite skills, know-how, and expertise.
• D)using benchmarking and the adoption of best practices to imitate a capability that rivals have already developed.
• E)empowering a team of employees to develop the capability however they best see fit.

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Definitions:

Structured Design

A fundamental approach in software engineering where the structure of systems is based on the subdivision of problems into smaller problems.

Subproblems

Smaller parts of a larger problem, often used in dynamic programming and divide-and-conquer strategies to simplify complex problems.

Megabyte

A unit of digital information storage or transmission that is approximately equal to one million bytes.

Bytecode

A form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter or a virtual machine.