Exam 9: Strategy Implementation: Organizing for Action

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

The network structure becomes most useful when the environment of a firm is unstable and is expected to remain so.

The purpose of a program or tactic is to make the strategy action-oriented.

What is synergy? According to Goold and Campbell, what are the six forms it can take?

Standard operating procedures typically detail the various activities that must be carried out to complete a corporation's programs.

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

Which structure is described as a "non-structure" by its virtual elimination of inhouse business functions?

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

Which structure simultaneously combines functional and product forms at the same level of the organization?

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?

Objectives which are personal and subjective and are typified by an entrepreneurial spirit describe what stage of corporate development?

The concept that structure follows strategy was developed by Alfred Chandler.

Which type of structure enables a corporation to centralize decision making along product lines and to reduce costs?

What is the activity that occurs in Stage I of international development?

What is the matrix of change? What types of questions does it answer?

The second stage of the organizational life cycle is maturity.

Alfred Chandler, known for his study of large American corporations, concluded that

What is strategy implementation? What questions must strategy makers consider to begin the implementation process?

Under Stage III, when various units of the company optimize their sales and profits without regard to the overall corporation, the organization may be experiencing a

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