Suppose you are the chief strategist of a large builder of commercial properties called Mega Builders Inc (MBI from hereon). Your company builds only three kinds of properties – hotels, large shopping malls and office buildings. Rapid advances made in ICT have resulted in your company facing competitors that have adopted very different strategies (from MBI) resulting in sudden and big changes to the nature of competition that MBI faces in its markets. The CEO asks you to recommend some reading material to her direct reports. She says that the reading material should preferably not be about business but one from which businesses can learn important lessons. You have decided to recommend the book chapter “Catastrophic failure, The French army and air force, May–June 1940” to her direct reports. Which of the following statements will you make about this reading as you introduce it to her. Identify the statement below that best captures what the reading is about. Your direct reports will learn - when there is a swift and significant change in the technologies employed by our competitors, it is quite possible that there is an equally significant change in the strategy that they will adopt to compete with (or disrupt) us. Sudden changes in strategy are expensive and require careful capital budgeting. Your direct reports should read this because it captures succinctly the relationship between spending on new technologies and the benefits of such spending. Your direct reports will learn about the benefits of careful capital budgeting when planning to acquire new, expensive technologies. Alternatives (b), (c), and (d) taken together best captures what the reading is about. a.Your direct reports will learn - when there is a swift andsignificant change in the technologies employed by our competitors,it is quite possible that there is an equally significant change inthe strategy that they will adopt to compete with (or disrupt)us.b.Sudden changes in strategy are expensive and r
Suppose you are the chief strategist of a large builder of commercial
Suppose you are the chief strategist of a large builder of commercial properties called Mega Builders Inc (MBI from hereon). Your company builds only three kinds of properties – hotels, large shopping malls and office buildings. Rapid advances made in ICT have resulted in your company facing competitors that have adopted very different strategies (from MBI) resulting in sudden and big changes to the nature of competition that MBI faces in its markets. The CEO asks you to recommend some reading material to her direct reports. She says that the reading material should preferably not be about business but one from which businesses can learn important lessons. You have decided to recommend the book chapter “Catastrophic failure, The French army and air force, May–June 1940” to her direct reports. Which of the following statements will you make about this reading as you introduce it to her. Identify the statement below that best captures what the reading is about. Your direct reports will learn - when there is a swift and significant change in the technologies employed by our competitors, it is quite possible that there is an equally significant change in the strategy that they will adopt to compete with (or disrupt) us. Sudden changes in strategy are expensive and require careful capital budgeting. Your direct reports should read this because it captures succinctly the relationship between spending on new technologies and the benefits of such spending. Your direct reports will learn about the benefits of careful capital budgeting when planning to acquire new, expensive technologies. Alternatives (b), (c), and (d) taken together best captures what the reading is about. a.Your direct reports will learn - when there is a swift andsignificant change in the technologies employed by our competitors,it is quite possible that there is an equally significant change inthe strategy that they will adopt to compete with (or disrupt)us.b.Sudden changes in strategy are expensive and r
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