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a) Outsourcing
• Appraising internal and external factors that are
b) Downsizing
the root of present strategies, measuring
c) Benchmarking area, assuming Apple keeps other dimensions proportional. Apple has used
d) Empowerment a 3.5-inch screen since introducing the iPhone in 2007.
• The external service to the company that acts as Early production of the newscreens has begun at three suppliers: Korea's
an extension of its business and that responds LGDisplay Co Ltd, Sharp Corp and Japan Display Inc, a Japanese
to its own administration as it sets standards and government-brokered merger combining the screen production of three
all operating conditions is known like: companies.
a) Empowerment It is likely all three of the screen suppliers will get production orders from
b) Downsizing Apple, which could begin as soon as June. That would allowthe newiPhone
c) Outsourcing to go into production as soon as August, if the company follows its own
d) Benchmarking
precedent in moving fromorders for prototypes for key components to
launch.
• The fundamental review and radical redesign of
internal and external business processes to
Apple's decision to equip the next iPhone with a larger screen represents
achieve spectacular improvements in critical
measures of performance, or performance part of a competitive response to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
mediated by reduction is known like:
Samsung unveiled its top-of-the line Galaxy smartphone with a 4.8-inch
a) Downsizing touch-screen and a faster processor earlier this month.
b) Benchmarking
c) Outsourcing With consumers becoming more and more comfortable using smartphones
d) Empowerment for tasks they once performed on laptops, like watching video, other
smartphone manufacturers have also moved toward bigger displays.
• It consists of expanding the span of control and
faculties of the collaborators to make decisions • How many different suppliers will most likely be
with more autonomy, after a clear definition of involved in the production of Apple's new iPhone
the objective and the business vision. screens?
a) Outsourcing a) Three
b) Downsizing b) Two
c) Benchmarking c) Four
d) Empowerment
• Are all the suppliers in Japan?
Question 8 Value: 20 Score:
a) Yes
Match the suitable field of each one of the b) Yes, but there might be another supplier in
Transformation Processes taking into account its Singapore.
corresponding resource c) No
a) Nokia
b) Samsung
c) LG