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The Essentials Of Technical Communication 5th Edition Elizabeth Tebeaux, Sam Dragga - Solutions
What are the main principles involved in designing an organisation’s structure to implement its strategy?
What are the consequences for the chosen strategies?
What are the main features of alternative strategic approaches?
How do emergent strategic considerations alter the decisions?
What is the distinction between strategic context and the other two elements – content and process?
Which options make valid assumptions about the future? Are feasible? Contain acceptable business risks? And are attractive to stakeholders?
Which options are particularly suitable for the environmental and resource conditions facing the organisation?
Which options are consistent with the purpose of the organisation?
What is the important distinction between strategic content and strategic process?
How do we develop and decide strategic management?
What options arise from being part of a corporation?
What are the benefits of being part of a group? And the problems?
What strategy options arise from these opportunities?
What are the main resource-based opportunities available to the organisation?
What are the main environment-based opportunities available to the organisation?
9 ‘Innovate or fall behind: the competitive imperative for virtually all businesses today is that simple.’ (Dorothy Leonard and Susan Straus)Is this true? Is innovation fundamental to all business strateg
8 Quinn argues that large companies need to behave like small entrepreneurial ventures to be truly innovative.Gluck suggests that major innovations only come from a‘big-bang’ push that needs major resources. Can these two views of the innovative process be reconciled? (See references 40 and 41
7 Identify some recent innovations and classify them into market pull and technology push. Explain how each innovation has been delivered into the market, using the S-shaped curve to show the process.
6 Do you think that the increased use of information technology will affect all organisations equally? Will some remain relatively unaffected apart from the introduction of a few computers and a link to the internet? What are the strategic implications of your answer?
5 With the introduction of the web, it has been argued that this: ‘will give consumers increased access to a vast selection of goods but will cause a restructuring and redistribution of profits amongst stakeholders along the[value] chain’ (Robert Benjamin and Rolf Wigand). Discuss the strategic
4 Take an organisation with which you are familiar and classify its technologies into basic, core and peripheral.What conclusions can you draw on sustainable competitive advantage for the organisation’s strategy?
3 ‘In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.’(Ikijuro Nonaka) Do you agree with Nonaka about the unique importance of knowledge?
2 In what ways might a company like Nike use a ‘knowledge audit’ as part of its strategy development process?What are the problems with this approach? Would you recommend it?
1 Take an organisation with which you are familiar and identify its areas of explicit and tacit knowledge. To what extent, if at all, does the process assist in identifying the sustainable competitive advantage of the company?
3 What lessons can we draw from the case on the usefulness of strategy dynamics and aggressive competitive theory in strategy development?
2 To what extent were aggressive competitive strategies used in the negotiations? What other aspects of strategy dynamics were involved?
1 What are the strengths and weaknesses of using strategy dynamics to plot this strategic battle? Who appeared to be the winners in the negotiations? Why?
9 Take an organisation with which you are familiar and explore the extent to which its current purpose is directed by its stakeholders and governed by ethical considerations. Use Section 2.5 to structure your answer.
Explain and critically evaluate this comment.
8 ‘In turbulent environments, the speed at which changes develop is such that firms which use the emerging strategy formation advocated by Mintzberg endanger their own survival. When they arrive on a market with a new product or service, such firms find the market pre-empted by more foresightful
7 ‘When well-managed major organisations make significant changes in strategy, the approaches they use frequently bear little resemblance to the rational–analytical systems so often touted in the planning literature.’ (Professor J B Quinn)Discuss.
6 If you were asked to develop strategy for the following companies, which strategic management theory might you pick as a starting point for your assessment? A large, international car company; an advertising agency with global links; a government institution; a small travel agency with four
5 Take an organisation with which you are familiar. Analyse whether it has been following prescriptive or emergent strategies or both. Within these broad categories, how would you characterise its strategies according to the classifications laid out in Sections 2.3 and 2.4 ?
4 What predictions would you make for the environment over the next ten years? What influence will your predictions have on developments in strategic management over this period?
3 Consider the four emergent approaches to strategy outlined in Section 2.4 . Which would you judge most closely described the route taken by Cereal Partners in Case 2.1 ?What conclusions do you draw from this about the viability of Cereal Partners’ approach?
2 Examine the criticisms of prescriptive strategies in Section 2.1 and those of emergent strategies in Section 2.2 . To what extent, if at all, do you agree with them? Why?
1 Is it possible for organisations to follow both prescriptive and emergent strategies or do they need to choose?
3 Are there any more general lessons to be drawn for companies from the approach to expansion from Africa’s leading mobile telephone companies?
2 What are the risks and benefits of African companies expanding beyond their home countries? What are the dangers of having a competitive advantage that relies largely on brand and geographical coverage?
1 Where would you place the strategies of MTN and other African phone companies – prescriptive or emergent? And within this, which strategic theory represents the most appropriate explanation of the company’s development?
5. Examine Figure 4–7. If you were the author of this document and were given a little extra time to make it more readable, what changes would you make?
4. Examine Figure 4–6. Revise this memo to eliminate as many of the eleven “be” verbs as possible. What impact does this change have on the clarity and length of the sentences?
J. The results of the survey will be reported following a discussion of the methods that were used by the researchers to solicit participants for the survey and to encourage complete answers to each of the ten questions.
I. Sustainable development is the process of moving human activities into a pattern that can be perpetually sustained. It is an approach that seeks to meet the needs of the present while protecting the resources that will be needed in the future.
H. Recently there has been a surge in research and development for a remarkable material called grapheme. One particular area that grapheme is being applied to is solar cells.
G. There is plenty of money and certainly room for major corporations to get their foot in the door and discover new technologies to address privacy and security issues related to artificial intelligence.
F. There has been success using lymphotropic paramagnetic nanoparticles for imaging certain cancers.
E. Lots of money around the world is poured into pharmaceutical research.
D. At the same time, these fuels must be easy to burn cleanly. This is typically characteristic of liquid and gaseous fuels. Lastly, it is best that the fuel be a liquid or a gas because of the ability to pump both. This means that the existing infrastructure can be used to distribute the fuel.
Transfer the knowledge by employing the users in the construction and maintenance of the facility.
Demonstrate the knowledge of the mentioned systems through a construction of a public facility for them.
Make the users aware of sustainable systems for drinking water, sewage disposal, other utilities, and shelter improvement
Creating employment opportunity
Innovative financing
C. For adequate housing in such circumstances, this paper here presents a model. The model is a step-by-step development process which is aimed at empowering the poor users. This process includes:
B. The intervening steps taken in the site are with the intention to make the site more attractive. This is done by establishing services, heading offices, cultural centers, and commercial firms in the downtown district.
A. Though there have been numerous economic anthropology studies in Mexico, they have largely been in three locations.
3. Revise the following:
B. The director’s committee tried to complete their evaluation of the report recommendations.
A. Efforts were made on the part of the director’s committee for completion of an evaluation of the recommendations of the report.
B. New Orleans faces many issues related to hurricanes and tropical storms. Most problems caused by these storms have occurred because of loss of wetlands around New Orleans during the past century. [a. Despite efforts by community and political leaders in New Orleans to restore wetlands, little
A. There are many issues facing New Orleans related directly to hurricanes and tropical storms. Recently most of the problems caused from these storms have been traced back to the loss of wetlands of New Orleans during the past century. Despite recent pushes by community and political leaders in
B. A shoemaking company signed a deal to share military technology, making their shoes waterproof and breathable.
A. A shoemaking company has signed a deal to share military technology to make their shoes waterproof, at the same time making the fabric breathable.
B. Even though Hurricane Gustav left its mark, the town suffered minimal damage and gave a sigh of relief regarding energy prices.
A. Even though Hurricane Gustav left its mark, there was a minimal amount of damage to the town, and finally there was a sigh of relief regarding energy prices.
B. Educators and medical personnel frequently overlook Asperger’s syndrome, a high- functioning autism disorder occurring in young people.
A. Asperger’s syndrome, sometimes called high-functioning autism disorder, is a disability in young people that is frequently overlooked by educators and medical personnel.
B. People in this field work in hospitals. These professionals focus on the mental well-being of hospitalized children and help the parents support their children as they cope with trauma.
A. People in this field work in hospitals and dedicate their time to the mental well-being of children in hospitals as well as to helping the parents be able to support their children and cope with the trauma.
B. Recent research on e-scooters shows that they are often left blocking sidewalks and ramps, creating barriers for people using wheelchairs and walkers.
A. New research has emerged recently about e-scooters that indicate a major problem is they are left with significant frequency by their users in the middle of sidewalks, ramps, and other public walkways and, as a consequence, create considerable barriers for people with disabilities using
B. Many proposed solutions target reduction of US oil dependency.
A. There are many proposed solutions for ridding the United States of oil dependency.
B. Another more invasive method proves successful in treating stroke.
A. There is another method that is more invasive to the patient but proves to be successful enough to treat stroke.
B. A stroke, an obstruction in a vein or artery in the brain, results in loss of consciousness as the brain does not receive oxygen.
A. A stroke is an increasingly common problem associated with the brain. It is caused when a vein or artery in the brain is obstructed. This results in loss of consciousness from the loss of oxygen in the brain.
2. Which recommendations in this chapter operate in the revisions of the following sentences (A versus B)? Why do these principles result in clearer, more concise revisions?
1. Examine the website plainlanguage.gov. What similarities do you find on this site to the information in this chapter?
□ Could you write any of your sentences with equal clarity but with fewer words?Exercises
□ Have you defined everything that might require defining?
□ Are most of your sentences written in active voice? Could you change any sentences with passive voice to active voice?
□ Have you avoided ponderous and impersonal language? Have you avoided is/are verb forms whenever possible?
□ Are subjects and verbs close together in your sentences? Have you used specific nouns and concrete verbs?
□ Are most sentences twenty words or shorter? Could you make any longer sentences shorter?
□ Do paragraphs begin with a topic sentence? Do the subsequent sentences in the paragraph build on the idea in the topic sentence?
□ How will you adjust your style so that it is appropriate for the professional relationship you have with your readers?Revising
□ Can you determine the appropriate reading level for the context in which the document will be read?
□ How will you meet your readers’ expectations about style for the specific kind of document you are writing?
□ How will you adjust your writing style to accommodate your readers’ knowledge of the subject?
□ Could you write any of your sentences with equal clarity but with fewer words?
□ Have you defined everything that might require defining?
□ Are most of your sentences written in active voice? Could you change any sentences with passive voice to active voice?
□ Have you avoided ponderous and impersonal language? Have you avoided is/are verb forms whenever possible?
□ Are subjects and verbs close together in your sentences? Have you used specific nouns and concrete verbs?
□ Are most sentences twenty words or shorter? Could you make any longer sentences shorter?
□ Do paragraphs begin with a topic sentence? Do the subsequent sentences in the paragraph build on the idea in the topic sentence?
□ How will you adjust your style so that it is appropriate for the professional relationship you have with your readers?Revising
□ Can you determine the appropriate reading level for the context in which the document will be read?
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