A Company's Ability to Marshal Adequate Resources in Support of New

question 10

Multiple Choice

A company's ability to marshal adequate resources in support of new strategic initiatives and steer them to the appropriate organizational units is important to the strategy execution process because

• A)changes in strategy often require resource reallocation, and organizational units need the proper funding to carry out their part of the strategic plan effectively and efficiently.
• B)accurate budgets are the key to exercising tight financial controls over what organization units can and cannot do in carrying out management's directives to execute the chosen strategy proficiently.
• C)tight budget control is management's most powerful tool for first-rate strategy execution.
• D)lean, carefully managed budgets protect the company's financial condition and eliminate the wasteful use of cash.
• E)lean, strictly enforced budgets are management's best and most used means of getting organizational units to exercise the fiscal discipline needed to execute the chosen strategy in a cost-efficient manner.

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Definitions:

Resistive Current

The current that flows through a circuit with only resistive elements, directly proportional to the voltage across and inversely proportional to the resistance.

RC Parallel Circuit

An electrical circuit that consists only of a resistor (R) and a capacitor (C) connected in parallel, affecting the overall impedance and phase angle.

RC Parallel Circuit

A type of electrical circuit where resistor(s) and capacitor(s) are connected in parallel, affecting the charging and discharging rate of the capacitor.

Capacitive Reactance

Opposition to AC flow in capacitors, varying inversely with the frequency of the operation and the capacitance value.