Answered: 1) Outsourcing value chain activities…

Understanding Business

12th Edition

ISBN:9781259929434

Author:William Nickels

Publisher:William Nickels

Chapter1: Taking Risks And Making Profits Within The Dynamic Business Environment

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Transcribed Image Text:1) Outsourcing value chain activities has such strategy executing advantages as A facilitating the empowerment of employees (because there are fewer things to do internally). B) promoting a total quality management culture. reducing the need to establish a strongly implanted corporate culture. less internal bureaucracy, speedier decision making, and quicker responses to changing market conditions. 2)Apple decides to reallocate resources by curtailing online ad budgets and investing heavily in scratch resistant Sapphire, the material that differentiates the Apple Watch from rival wearable computing device brands. What is MOST LIKELY the reason for Apple's reallocation of resources? A making critical value chain activities less effective B signaling commitment to online sales of the brand signaling commitment to offline sales of the brand D making critical value chain activities less effective 3) 3)The principal offensive strategy options include all the following EXCEPT A initiating a market threat and counterattack simultaneously to affect a distraction. B launching a preemptive strike to secure an advantageous position that rivals are prevented or discouraged from duplicating. offering an equally good or better product at a lower price. Juliet Asied using hit-and-run or guerrilla warfare tactics to grab sales and market share from complacent or distracted rivals.

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