Str 581 week 5 quiz

This, called kaizen in Japanese, is the process of relentlessly trying to find ways to improve and enhance a company’s products and processes from design through assembly, sales, and service.

In which type of strategy do functional tactics translate into action designed to accomplish specific short-term objectives?

This idea factor involves following demographic and other broad trends and trying to develop ideas that may be relevant and useful.

This is concerned with tracking a strategy as it is being implemented, detecting problems or changes in its underlying premises, and making necessary adjustments.

While these may under perform established products in mainstream markets, they often offer features or capabilities appreciated by some fringe customer group.

These are also referred to as crowdsourcing or open innovation.

The effort to familiarize future leaders with the skills important to the company and to develop exceptional leaders among the managers you employ is

Key, routine activities that must be undertaken in each department of the organization are

A leader’s vision should be

CCC21 stands for

Strategic surveillance must be kept

These create differences across national boundaries that influence how people interact, read personal cues, and otherwise interrelate socially.

Organizational culture includes important assumptions shared by members of the organization. These assumptions are often

14.Power Fund is a long-standing brokerage firm with a great history of high returns and well-managed growth. The managers at Power Fund repeatedly refer to terms like quality, growth, and reliability in the firm’s advertisements. This demonstrates managers’

The DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) process is relevant to

Short-term objectives assist strategy implementation by identifying measurable outcomes of action plans or functional activities, which can make feedback, correction, and evaluation

Short-term objectives are usually

Discussion about and agreement on short-term objectives help raise issues and potential conflicts within an organization that usually