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MANA 3335 Exam 2 Questions and
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resources - answer the assets, capabilities, processes, employee time, information,
and knowledge that an organization uses to improve its effectiveness and efficiency and
create and sustain competitive advantage

competitive advantage - answer providing greater value for customers than
competitors can

sustainable competitive advantage - answer a competitive advantage that other
companies have tried unsuccessfully to duplicate and have, for the moment, stopped
trying to duplicate

valuable resource - answer a resource that allows companies to improve efficiency
and effectiveness. resources that are congruent with company goals (for example, a
phone company wouldn't be buying tea leaves)

rare resource - answer a resource that is not controlled or possessed by many
competing firms

imperfectly imitable resource - answer a resource that is impossible or extremely
costly or difficult for other firms to duplicate (for example, social networks within a
company that a competitor can't recreate)

nonsubstitutable resource - answer a resource that produces value or competitive
advantage and has no equivalent substitutes or replacements (for example, copyrights
and patents)

competitive inertia - answer a reluctance to change strategies or competitive
practices that have been successful in the past

strategic dissonance - answer a discrepancy between a company's intended strategy
and the strategic actions managers take when implementing that strategy

situational (SWOT) analysis - answer an assessment of the strengths and
weaknesses in an organization's internal environment and the opportunities and threats
in its external environment (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)

core capabilities - answer the internal decision-making routines, problem-solving
processes, and organizational cultures that determine how efficiently inputs can be
turned into outputs

, strategic group - answer a group of companies within an industry against which top
managers compare, evaluate, and benchmark strategic threats and opportunities

core firms - answer the central companies in a strategic group

secondary firms - answer the firms in a strategic group that follow strategics related
to but somewhat different from those of the core firms

strategic reference points - answer the strategic targets managers use to measure
whether a firm has developed the core competencies it needs to achieve a sustainable
competitive advantage

corporate-level strategy - answer the overall organizational strategy that addresses
the question "What business or businesses are we in or should we be in?"

diversification - answer a strategy for reducing risk by buying a variety of items
(stocks or, in the case of a corporation, types of businesses) so that the failure of one
stock or one business does not doom the entire portfolio

portfolio strategy - answer a corporate-level strategy that minimizes risk by
diversifying investment among various businesses or product lines

acquisition - answer the purchase of a company by another company

unrelated diversification - answer creating or acquiring companies in completely
unrelated businesses

BCG matrix - answer a portfolio strategy developed by the Boston Consulting Group
that categorizes a corporation's businesses by growth rate and relative market share
and helps managers decide how to invest corporate funds

star - answer On the BCG matrix, a company with a large share of a fast-growing
market

question mark - answer On the BCG matrix, a company with a small share of a fast-
growing market

cash cows - answer On the BCG matrix, a company with a large share of a slow-
growing market

dogs - answer On the BCG matrix, a company with a small share of a slow-growing
market

related diversification - answer creating or acquiring companies that share similar
products, manufacturing, marketing, technology, or cultures

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