What Is the Best Way to Achieve the Efficiency Potential

question 14

Multiple Choice

What is the best way to achieve the efficiency potential of a global strategy?

• A) It demands managerial attention to be focused on objective-setting specifically oriented toward production practices.
• B) It requires that resources and best practices be shared, value chain activities be integrated, and capabilities be transferred from one location to another as they are developed.
• C) It requires that the best identified resources and capabilities be centralized at headquarters.
• D) It requires value chain activities to be dispersed across many countries to elevate cost control management as a primary focus in all countries.
• E) It requires giving local managers considerable latitude for executing strategies for the country markets they are responsible for.

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