| Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity
After completing this chapter, you should be able to: - List the three primary ways that business organizations compete.
- Explain five reasons for the poor competitiveness of some companies.
- Define the term strategy and explain why strategy is important.
- Discuss and compare organization strategy and operations strategy, and explain why it is important to link the two.
- Describe and give examples of time-based strategies.
- Define the term productivity and explain why it is important to organizations and to countries.
- Provide some of the reasons for poor productivity and some ways of improving it.
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