Which One of the Following Is NOT a Means of Building

question 16

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is NOT a means of building and strengthening competitively valuable resources and capabilities?

• A) engaging in experience-building activities such as collaborative efforts in R&D engineering and design
• B) shifting from decentralized to centralized decision-making so as to give senior executives more authority and control in driving cultural change
• C) acquiring capabilities through mergers and acquisitions
• D) entering into collaborative partnerships with suppliers, competitors, or other companies that possess needed expertise
• E) selecting people with the requisite skills and experience, upgrading or expanding individual abilities as needed, and then molding the efforts of individuals into a collaborative effort to create an organizational ability

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Definitions:

Scene Identification

The cognitive process of recognizing and categorizing a visual environment or context in which an event takes place.

Functional Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used, hindering problem-solving abilities.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.