Exam 10: Strategy Implementation: Organizing and Structure

The corporation's life cycle can be extended by managerial and product innovation.

Research generally supports Chandler's proposition that structure follows strategy as well as the reverse proposition that structure influences strategy.

The radical redesign of business processes to achieve major gains in cost, service, or time is called

Which market location tactic is being used when a company goes head to head with its competitor matching in every category from price to promotion to distribution channel?

Which defensive tactic was used by Southwest Airlines when deliberately keeping their prices low and constantly investing in cost-reducing measures?

There are three distinct phases in the development of a matrix structure. Which is the first phase to occur usually when a new product line is being introduced?

In order to implement reengineering, Hammer suggests that those who use the output of the process perform the reengineering process.

When the return on investment for each division of a corporation is greater than what the return would be if each division were an independent business, that corporation is said to have achieved

Which form of synergy was demonstrated when P&G purchased Gillette to combine P&G's knowledge of the female consumer with Gillette's knowledge of the male consumer?

The first company to manufacture and sell a new product or service is referred to as a pioneer.

Pioneered in the automobile industry, the matrix structure was developed to combine the flexibility of the functional structure with the stability of the product form.

One of the goals to be achieved in strategy implementation is synergy between and among functions and business units.

An external block preventing a corporation from moving from one stage to another is

A candidate for a fourth stage in corporate development is the

The geographic-area structure allows the company to introduce and manage a similar line of products around the world.

Rather than attempting to fix existing problems through minor adjustments and the fine-tuning of existing processes, the key to reengineering is to ask, "If this were a new company, how would we run this place?"

The job design technique that combines tasks to give a worker more of the same type of duties to perform is known as

Successful late movers tend to be large firms with considerable resources and related experience.

The movement of workers through several jobs to increase variety is referred to as

Which of the following is not an offensive tactic?