Finding Your Company's Core Competencies

What is the main function of the roots of the tree in the technological logic visualized by the tree?

• Transfer of knowledge to the company

• Preservation of the company’s scientific and technological foundations

• Analysis of scientific developments

• Integration of design and production technologies

What is the most original feature of Japanese perception of a company’s function?

• Managerial potential

• Industrial potential

• Entrepreneurship project

• Technological potential

What is the concept used to identify strategic options as determined by economic factors for a given technology?

• C&C (computer and communications)

• Advanced composite materials

• Measurement, control, and data processing technology

• Technological cluster

What is the leading component in the long-term strategy of Japanese companies?

• Sales growth

• Improved financial position

• Technical progress

• Human resources development

What is the main implication of the strategy of the technological cluster?

• Minimizing costs and risks

• Maintaining growth

• Taking advantage of phases of economic recovery

• All of the above

What is the main implication of the expansion of branches and sub-branches of activity?

• Economies of scale in the final product

• Optimum market share for companies

• Both A and B

• None of the above

What is the main implication of the ease of adaptation in Japanese companies?

• None of the above

• Rapid expansion without heavy investments

• Rapid withdrawal from certain sectors

• Both A and B

Prahalad and Hammel made an analogy of a diversify corporation with a tree, define what part of the tree is related to the core competence

• Leaves

• Trunk and mayor limbs

• Smaller branches

• Root system

Prahalad and Hammel made an analogy of a diversify corporation with a tree, define what part of the tree is related to the core products

• Leaves

• Trunk and mayor limbs

• Smaller branches

• Root system

Prahalad and Hammel made an analogy of a diversify corporation with a tree, define what part of the tree is related to the business units

• Leaves

• Trunk and mayor limbs

• Smaller branches

• Root system