Options:
| A. leadership strategies B. cost-leadership strategies C. types of differentiation plans D. stabilization strategies E. common grand strategies |
Options:
| A. automobiles B. custom personal computers C. custom cakes D. steel E. beer |
Options:
| A. analyses, successes, and purposes. B. analyses, strategies, and performance. C. ability, strategies, and purposes. D. ability, successes, and performance. |
Options:
| A. Modules throughout a corporation can communicate with each other B. While purchasing is difficult, the vendors such as SAP make it worthwhile due to easy implementation C. Have predefined software that represents “pretty good practices” or even “best practices” D. Enables standardized procedures in an organization E. Reduces inconsistent data stored in various locations of the organization |
B. While purchasing is difficult, the vendors such as SAP make it worthwhile due to easy implementation
Options:
| A. slow-cycle B. medium-cycle C. standard-cycle D. fast-cycle |
Options:
| A. utilization. B. greater in manufacturing than in services. C. defined only for manufacturing firms. D. multifactor productivity. E. single-factor productivity. |
Options:
| A. not respond to competitive actions. B. respond quickly to competitive actions. C. delay responding to competitive actions. D. respond to strategic actions, but not to tactical actions. |
C. delay responding to competitive actions.
Options:
| A. research and development B. new product plans C. capital investments D. facility location/capacity E. setting inventory levels |
E. setting inventory levels
Options:
| A. trade barrier B. embargo C. trade encouragement D. export fee E. type of dumping |
Options:
| A. the cost of low quality can be hidden as inventory cost. B. JIT adds more buffers to the system. C. JIT prevents long runs of defects. D. B and C E. A, B and C |
C. JIT prevents long runs of defects.
Options:
| A. Setup cost must be cut to one fourth its current value. B. Setup cost must also be cut in half from its current value. C. Setup cost must double from its current value. D. Cannot be determined. E. Setup cost must quadruple from its current value. |
A. Setup cost must be cut to one fourth its current value.
Options:
| A. inferior or unproven skills, expertise, or intellectual capital in competitively important parts of the business. B. something that it lacks or does poorly in comparison to rivals. C. deficiencies in competitively important physical, organizational, or intangible assets. D. missing or competitively inferior capabilities in key areas. E. All of these. |
E. All of these.