BUSINESS REVIEW
Across
- 3. The practice of subcontracting overseas
- 4. The practice of employing another business (as third party)to perform some peripheral activities
- 9. A form of innovation directly associated with the technical development of existing products or processes, or the creation of new ones
- 11. A factor that is very important for contingency planning, it must be the priority under any circumstance
- 14. An organization's attempts to put in place procedures to deal with a crisis, anticipating it through scenario planning
- 15. The amount of time it takes between ordering new stock and receiving it
- 16. A major, unpredictable event that occurs and threatens to harm an organization and its stakeholders
- 17. A factor that affects crisis management, which indicates that senior managers will need to communicate in an objective way, despite the temptation to turn the crisis into a media exercise in public relations.
- 19. a type of innovation where new products are created or improvements to existing products are made
- 20. A form of creativity that transfers and applies existing forms of thinking and problem solving to new scenarios or different situations
Down
- 1. the minimum amount of stock that should be held to ensure that production is still possible and customers' orders may still be fulfilled
- 2. The existing transport networks for people and products, and also the electronic networks (digital communication such as telephones, computers, and Internet)
- 5. The practice of performing peripheral activities internally, within the company
- 6. The systematic steps and efforts by an organization to limit the damage from a sudden crisis
- 7. The system of connected organizations, information, resources, and operations that a business needs to produce goods and provide services to its customers
- 8. A type of innovation where some parts of the manufacturing or service delivery are improved
- 10. The practice of bringing back business functions to the home country
- 12. A form creativity that generates new forms of thinking, addressing problems from an unusual perspective
- 13. Acronym for a method of stock control which means avoiding holding stock by being able to get suppliers only when necessary and to produce just when ordered
- 18. Acronym for a method of stock control which means holding reserve of both raw materials and finished products in case of a sudden increase in demand