Building an Organization Capable of Good Strategy Execution Entails

question 107

Multiple Choice

Building an organization capable of good strategy execution entails

• A) staffing the organization, acquiring, developing, and strengthening key resources and competitive capabilities, and structuring the organization and work effort.
• B) decentralizing authority for performing strategy-critical value chain activities, establishing at least two distinctive competencies, and hiring talented employees.
• C) investing heavily in employee training, using an empowered organization design and organization structure in order to maximize labor productivity, and employing effective incentive compensation systems.
• D) centralizing authority in the hands of a chief strategy implementer so as to create the leadership authority for driving implementation forward at a rapid pace.
• E) empowering employees, maximizing internal operating efficiency, and optimizing core competencies.

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Definitions:

Geometric Mean

A mean or average which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

Median

A statistical measure that represents the middle value of a dataset when it's ordered from smallest to largest.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.

Deviations

Differences between observed values and the average or expected values in a data set.