1. Discuss the importance of achieving synergy during strategy implementation?
2. Explain how a manager would avoid having espoused reality enter into his or her department. Include a discussion on the tools they could use, would department meetings help?
3. Briefly describe a recent decision you made that could be viewed from an optimization perspective. In a few words, what were the “decision variables”? What was the objective? What were the constraints? Did you have more than one objective?