Question

The capabilities and core competencies that Zara has developed in the execution of its strategy, i.e. rapid production processes and new apparel introductions, are NOT concerned with

Select one:

A. acts to bolster skills that contributed to Zara's earlier successes, or acts to respond to customer problems, new technological or market opportunities, and the competitive maneuvers of rivals.

B. leveraging Zara's core competence into a distinctive competence (or transforming a capability into a competitively superior capability), by concentrating more effort and talent than rivals on deepening and strengthening the competence or capability so as to achieve the dominance needed for competitive advantage.

C. evolving changes in customer needs and competitive conditions that often required tweaking and adjusting Zara's portfolio of competencies and intellectual capital to keep its capabilities freshly honed and on the cutting edge.

D. cost-effectively hiring a cadre of people with the right talent and expertise, putting them together in a single work group, and then teaming the work group with Zara's key strategic allies/partners to mesh the skills, expertise, and competencies needed to perform the desired capabilities with some proficiency.

E. bundles of skills and know-how that grew out of the combined efforts of Zara's cross-functional work groups and departments performing complementary activities at different locations in a firm's value chain.

Answer 1

D. Cost-effectively hiring a cadre of people with the right talent and expertise, putting them together in a single work group, and then teaming the work group with Zara's key strategic allies/partners to mesh the skills, expertise, and competencies needed to perform the desired capabilities with some proficiency is something that the capabilities and core competencies that Zara has developed in the execution of its strategy, i.e. rapid production processes and new apparel introductions, are NOT concerned with. Whereas the remaining ones are something with which the capabilities and core competencies that Zara has developed in the execution of its strategy are concerned with.

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