Whatever Strategic Approach Is Adopted by a Company to Deliver

question 30

Multiple Choice

Whatever strategic approach is adopted by a company to deliver value, it nearly always requires

• A)that management undertake formal planning sessions with functional departments to ensure productivity improvement.
• B)the identification of strengths and weaknesses within the company.
• C)matching corporate identity with the corporate culture in order to integrate effort and build sales momentum.
• D)performing value chain activities differently than rivals and building competitively valuable resources and capabilities that rivals cannot readily match.
• E)constant efforts to thwart entry of new rivals and their attempts to create differentiated products with unit costs above price premium.

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Definitions:

Super Division

A unit or segment within a larger organization that exceeds normal expectations or performances.

Service Department Allocations

The process of distributing indirect costs from service departments to producing departments based on their usage of services.

Service Department Allocations

The process of distributing the costs of service departments to producing or operating departments based on their usage of services.

Service Department Charge Rate

The rate at which internal service departments charge other parts of the same organization for the services rendered.