Chapter 1 Q & A

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A winning Strategy is one that
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Helps the company achieve a sustainable competitive advantage,
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Which of the following statements about a company's strategy is false?
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A company's strategy is deliberately kept under wraps
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Which of the following is not one of the reasons that a company's strategy evolves over time?
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The need on the part of the company managers to make regular
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A company achieves sustainable competitive advantage when
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an attractive number of buyers are drawn to purchase its products
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What makes a competitive advantage sustainable or durable as opposed to temporary is
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Actions or elements in the strategy that cause an attractive number
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Based on Figure 1.1, which of the following is not something to look for in identifying a company's strategy?
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Actions to raise or lower the company's performance targets
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Two crucial elements of a company's business model are
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its customer value proposition
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The difference between a company's business model and a company's strategy is that
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its business model relates to management's blueprint for delivering
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Crafting an ethical strategy requires that managers
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carefully and conscientiously consider whether each proposed
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In crafting a strategy, management is in effect saying
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"among all the many different business approaches and ways of competing
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The customer value proposition portion of a company's business model concerns
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the company's approach to satisfying buyer needs
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Good strategy combined with good strategy execution
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are strongly correlated with how well the company
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A company's strategy
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represents managerial commitment to undertake
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For a company's strategy to qualify as "ethical", it is important
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for the strategy not to entail action or behaviors that cross
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A company's strategy evolves from one version to the next
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as managers abandon obsolete or ineffective strategy