After 15 Teams Created 128 Different Phones,Chris Galvin,former CEO of Motorola,eliminated

question 30

Multiple Choice

After 15 teams created 128 different phones,Chris Galvin,former CEO of Motorola,eliminated the autonomous teams being used to develop new wireless phones.This was necessary because such teams

• A) often lack coordination.
• B) typically waste the CEOs attention.
• C) create efficiencies through duplication of effort.
• D) never duplicate efforts of the rest of the firm.

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