a. 1. There are three primary ways to achieve competitive advantage. Provide an example, not included in the text, of each. Support your choices.
2. There are three primary ways to achieve competitive advantage. Provide an example, not included in the text, of each. Support your choices.
3. How must an operations strategy integrate with marketing and accounting?
4. How would you summarize outsourcing trends?
b. 1. What potential cost-saving advantages might firms experience by using outsourcing?
2. What internal issues must managers address when outsourcing?
3. How should a company select an outsourcing provider?
4. What are some of the possible consequences of poor outsourcing?
5. What global operations strategy is most descriptive of McDonald's?