Value Chain Analysis
Primary Activities
Support Activities
Resource-Based View of the Firm
S.W.O.T. Analysis
100
Advertising & Supply of replacement parts are part of this type of activity.
What is a Primary activity?
100
Campbell Soup uses an electronic network to facilitate its continuous-replenishment program with its most progressive retailers. It is associated with collecting, storing, and distributing the product or service to buyers. What is this referred to?
What is Outbound logistics?
100
Technology development is an example of this.
What is a support activity?
100
An organizational asset that is relatively easy to identify, including physical assets, financial resources, organizational resources, and technological resources.
What is tangible resources?
100
The S, W, O & T in S.W.O.T. Analysis represents the following for criteria:
What is Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats?
200
A strategic analysis of an organization that uses value-creating activities is called what?
What is value-chain analysis?
200
One of the five primary activities. It includes an innovative approach to promotion and advertising.
What is Marketing and Sales?
200
This is the function of purchasing inputs used in the firms value chain, including raw materials, supplies, and other consumable items as well as assets such as machinery, laboratory equipment, office equipment, and buildings.
What is procurement?
200
Human, Innovation & Creativity, and Reputation are all examples of this.
What is intangible resource?
200
Strengths and weaknesses are more _______, and opportunities and threats are more________.
What is internal? What is external?
300
Warehousing and inventory control are part of this.
What is Inbound Logistics?
300
This includes all of the activities associated with transforming inputs into the final product form.
What is operations?
300
Activities associated with the development of new knowledge that is applied to the firm's operations are called this.
What is technology department?
300
Innovativeness of products and services is this type of firm resource.
What is Organizational Capabilities?
300
An easily duplicated product would be an example of this.
What is threat?
400
Reduced dependence on suppliers is not an advantage of which type of inventory system?
What is the Just-in-time inventory system?
400
This type of management consists of activities involved in the recruiting, hiring, training, development, and compensation of all types of personnel. It supports both individual primary and support activities and the entire value chain.
What is Human resource management?
400
Effective planning systems to attain goals and objectives & effective information technology to integrate value-creating activities are included in this support activity.
What is general administration?
400
A resource or capability that is said to be rare, valuable, difficult to imitate and difficult to substitute is considered to be able to do what?
What is maintain a sustainable advantage?
400
Low labor costs would be an example of this.
What is strength?
500
Procurement, technology department, human resource management, and general administration are all examples of what type of activity?
What is support activities?
500
Firms, such as CarMax, feel this is a source of their competitive advantage. It captures, analyzes, interprets, and disseminates information about all cars on the CarMax lot. It has also helped decrease uncertainties in hard to forecast areas, such as inventory management.
What is Information Systems?
500
Which of the following is not a support activity? a. general administration b. operations c. technology department, or d. human resource management
What is operations?
500
A characteristic of resources that is developed and/or accumulated through a unique series of events is said to have what?
What is path dependency?
500
One limitation of the S.W.O.T. analysis is that its' focus on the external environment is considered this.
What is too narrow?
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