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According to Treacy and Wiersema, market leadership can be attained through: |
| | A) | Product leadership |
| | B) | Operational excellence |
| | C) | Customer intimacy |
| | D) | Reengineering |
| | E) | A, B, and C |
| | F) | A, B, C, and D |
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According to David Maister, the most complex projects requiring innovation and creativity are called _________. |
| | A) | "Procedures" projects |
| | B) | "Gray hair" projects |
| | C) | "Brain Surgery" projects |
| | D) | "Grinding" projects |
| | E) | None of the above |
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The last stage in the operations consulting process is: |
| | A) | Presenting final report |
| | B) | Implementing changes |
| | C) | Assuring client satisfaction |
| | D) | Assembling learning from the stage |
| | E) | None of the above |
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Operations stage toolkit for the Data Analysis and Solution Development phase include(s):
- SPC tools
- Bottleneck analysis
- Computer simulation
- Balanced scoreboard
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| | A) | I and II |
| | B) | II and III |
| | C) | I, II and III |
| | D) | II, III, and IV |
| | E) | I, II, III, and IV |
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Five forces model is an operation-consulting tool used in the ___________ phase. |
| | A) | Problem definition |
| | B) | Data gathering |
| | C) | Data analysis |
| | D) | Cost impact and payoff analysis |
| | E) | Implementation |
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Total quality management emphasizes continuous and incremental improvements of processes that are in control, reengineering is about radical discontinuous change through process innovation. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Which of the following is not a principle or rule for reengineering? |
| | A) | Organize around tasks, not outcomes |
| | B) | Merge information-processing work into the real work that produces the information |
| | C) | Treat geographically dispersed resources as though they were centralized |
| | D) | Link parallel activities instead of integrating their results |
| | E) | Capture information once-at the source |
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