Which One of the Following Is NOT Part of Organizing

question 94

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is NOT part of organizing the work effort in ways that promote successful strategy execution?

• A) Facilitating collaboration with external partners and strategic allies.
• B) Providing for cross-unit coordination and deciding which value chain activities to perform in-house and which ones to outsource.
• C) Determining how much authority to centralize at the top and how much to delegate to down-the-line managers and employees.
• D) Determining which functions and organizational units require superior intellectual capital.
• E) Maintaining expertise and resource depth in performing those internally strategy-critical value chain activities that underpin its long-term competitive success and provide for the main building blocks in the organization structure.

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Definitions:

Working Capital

The difference between a company's current assets and current liabilities, indicating short-term financial health.

Acid-test Ratio

A financial metric that measures a company's ability to cover its short-term liabilities with its most liquid assets.

Debt-to-equity Ratio

This proportion demonstrates the relative use of debt and shareholders' equity in the capital funding of a company's assets.

Receivable Turnover

A financial metric indicating how efficiently a company collects cash from credit sales by measuring the number of times average accounts receivable are collected over a period.