Diversified Companies Striving to Capture the Benefits of Synergy Between

question 5

Multiple Choice

Diversified companies striving to capture the benefits of synergy between separate businesses have to be aware of all of the following challenges EXCEPT

• A)giving business-unit heads full rein to operate independently.
• B)having pieces of strategically relevant activities and capabilities scattered across many departments, with each pursuing its own priorities, projects, and agendas.
• C)centralizing performance of functions requiring close coordination at the functional level.
• D)serving the interests of individual businesses and not the company as a whole.
• E)forming cross-business strategic fit by enforcing close collaboration.

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Definitions:

Skewed

A description of a statistical distribution that is not symmetrical, indicating that data points tend to extend more to one side of the mean than the other.

Median

The middle value of a data set when it is ordered from least to greatest, separating the higher half from the lower half.

Ordered Data Set

A collection of objects or numbers arranged in a natural, chronologically sequential or hierarchical order.

Median

The value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, often used as a measure of central tendency.