A false sense of certainty and detachment of planners
What are Pitfalls of Planning
100
A resource that is not controlled or possessed by many competing firms
What is a Rare Resource
100
The successful implementation of creative ideas in organizations
What is Innovation
100
The first stage of Organizational Decline
What is Blinded
100
The last stage of Organizational Decline
What is Dissolution
200
When a manager chooses a goal and develops a method or strategy to achieve that goal
What is Planning
200
The purpose of the Five Forces Model
What is to determine an industry's potential for long-term profitability
200
Nearly all technology cycles follow this pattern of innovation
What is the S-Curve
200
The first and potentially most serious error managers make when leading change
What is Not Establishing a Great Enough Sense of Urgency
200
In Porter's Five Forces Model, this is a measure of the degree to which barriers to entry make it easy or difficult for new companies to get started in an industry
What is the Threat of New Entrants
300
Intensified effort, persistence, direction, and creation of task strategies
What are Benefits of Planning
300
The measure of the intensity of competitive behavior between companies in an industry
What is the Character of the Rivalry
300
This begins with the "birth" of a new technology and ends when that technology reaches its limits and is replaced by a better technology
What is a Technology Cycle
300
The three steps in Kurt Lewin's Organizational Change Model
What are Unfreezing, Change Intervention, Refreezing
300
In SWOT analysis, which attributes are internal to the company
What are Strengths and Weaknesses
400
S.M.A.R.T.
What is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
400
The Positioning Strategies Identified by Michael Porterq
What are Cost Leadership, Differentiation, Focus
400
When companies innovate by lowering the cost and improving the functioning of the dominant design
What is Incremental Change
400
According to John Kotter, which actions can adversely influence refreezing efforts
What are declaring victory too soon and not anchoring changes in the corporation's culture
400
In the Five Forces Model, this is a measure of the influence that customers have on the firm’s prices
What is the Bargaining Power of Buyers
500
These managers are responsible for developing operational plans
Who are Lower-Level Managers
500
A company whose product has added value and a higher price because it is of superior quality than its competitors it practicing this
What is Differentiation Strategy
500
When customers purchase new technologies to replace older technologies
What is Technological Substitution
500
When resistance to change is based on insufficient, incorrect, or misleading information, managers should use these approaches
What are Education and Communication
500
In SWOT analysis which attributes are external to the company