Exam 9: Multibusiness Strategy

The ______ serves as an indicator of the relative attractiveness of the markets served by each business in the firm's portfolio of businesses.

__________ is concerned with whether or not the potential competitive advantages expected to arise from each value opportunity have materialized.

Zeon Plus Company requires substantial investment to maintain and expand their dominant position in the growing electronic zeonites market.In fact,this investment is often in excess of the funds that the firm can generate internally.However,Zeon Plus does have a very large market share.What type of company is this,according to the BCG growth-share matrix?

The industry attractiveness-business strength matrix improves on the BCG matrix in some fundamental ways.Which of the following is NOT one of these?

The ________ is the projected rate of sales growth for the market being served by a particular business.

________ attempt to help managers "balance" the flow of cash resources among their various businesses while also identifying the overall strategic purpose within the group of businesses.

Businesses with high market share in low-growth industries are called:

Simple rules need to:

The only relationship between business units with the portfolio matrix is:

For the ABC Company,the Theta business is in a low market share position in a slow growing market.As per the BCG matrix,Theta is a

__________ provides a basis for comparing the relative strengths of the businesses in the firm's portfolio in terms of their positions in their respective markets.

The _________ perspective sees multi-business companies as creating value by influencing the businesses they own.

Which matrix involves a framework that can help ensure that businesses' strategies are consistent with strategies appropriate to their strategic environment?

Opportunities to build value via diversification,integration or joint venture strategies are usually NOT found in which of the following?

Skills in achieving differentiation characterize winners in ________ businesses

________ is the current foundation of corporate portfolios-they sustain corporate overhead,dividends and provide debt capacity.

The least profitable firms are:

Gizmo Co.has rules for product development.Its project teams must know when a product has to be delivered to the customer and total product development time must be less than 1 year.This represents an example of:

Which type of business involves differentiated products with low brand loyalty,easily replicated technology and minimal scale economies?

In the industry attractiveness-business strength matrix,the position of a business is calculated by _______ its rating along the two dimensions of the matrix.