Facebook Has Hired You to Manage Its Launch Team for Its

Multiple Choice

Facebook has hired you to manage its launch team for its new dating app. What would be the highest priority on your list of activities to ensure a successful launch and implementation of this new app?

A) staffing the organization, acquiring, developing, and strengthening key resources and competitive capabilities, and structuring the organization and work effort.
B) decentralizing authority for performing strategy-critical value chain activities, establishing at least two distinctive competencies, and hiring talented employees.
C) investing heavily in employee training, using an empowered organization design and organization structure in order to maximize labor productivity, and employing effective incentive compensation systems.
D) centralizing authority in the hands of a chief strategy implementer so as to create the leadership authority for driving implementation forward at a rapid pace.
E) empowering employees, maximizing internal operating efficiency, and optimizing core competencies.