Chapters 7 & 8 - Strategy Implementation

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Across
  1. 5. MIS technique that involves using software to mine huge volumes of data to help executives make decisions
  2. 8. Subdividing of a market into distinct subsets of customers according to needs and buying habits
  3. 9. Areas on a perceptual map without ideal points
  4. 12. Second most common type of structure used by U.S. businesses, aka decentralized structure
  5. 13. Acronym for a tax-qualified, defined-contribution, employee benefit plan where employees purchase stock of the company
  6. 14. Acronym for a Company moving from being private to being public
  7. 15. Document that details how funds will be obtained and spent for a specified period of time
Down
  1. 1. Premiums paid for acquisitions; not a good thing to have on a balance sheet
  2. 2. Ignoring the problem in hopes the conflict will resolve itself
  3. 3. Comparing a firm against the best firms in the industry
  4. 4. The single greatest threat to successful strategy implementation
  5. 6. This structure is the most complex of all designs because it depends on both vertical and horizontal flows of authority and communication
  6. 7. Temporary layoffs
  7. 10. Websites that Organizations should encourage their employees to create to add, delete, and edit content regarding FAQ's across the firm's value chain of activities
  8. 11. Reconfiguring or redesigning work, jobs, and processes for the purpose of improving cost, quality, service, and speed