Imagine You Have Been Asked to Present a Strategy Implementation

Multiple Choice

Imagine you have been asked to present a strategy implementation plan to the top management of Didrickson, a Swedish multidomestic manufacturer and marketer of outdoor activewear. Your presentation would NOT likely include which implementation option as a means of building and strengthening its competitively valuable resources and capabilities?

A) Didrickson needs to engage in experience-building activities such as collaborative efforts in R&D engineering and design
B) Didrickson needs to shift from decentralized to centralized decision-making so as to give senior executives more authority and control in driving cultural change
C) Didrickson needs to acquire capabilities through mergers and acquisitions
D) Didrickson needs to enter into collaborative partnerships with suppliers, competitors, or other companies that possess needed expertise.
E) Didrickson needs to select and assemble a team of people with the requisite skills and experience, upgrading or expanding individual abilities as needed, and then molding the efforts of individuals into a collaborative effort to create an organizational ability.