Which of the following statements concerning benchmarking is NOT correct?

A) being humble enough to admit that others have come up with world-class ways to perform particular activities, yet wise enough to try to learn how to match, and even surpass them.
B) adapting the top-notch approaches pioneered by other companies to the company's own operations, thereby boosting the proficiency with which strategy-critical value chain tasks are performed.
C) the process of identifying, studying, and implementing best practices.
D) looking outward to discover best practices and then proceeding to develop the data for measuring how well a company's own performance of an activity stacks up against the best-practice standards.

Agovernment receives a gift of cash and investments with a fair value of $200,000. the donor specified that the earnings from the gift must be used to beautify city-owned parks and the principal must be re-invested. the $200,000 gift should be accounted for in which of the following funds? a) general fund b) private-purpose trust fund c) agency fund d) permanent fund

When paul o’neill joined alcoa as ceo, he set a , that there would be zero workplace accidents. a lot of people in the organization thought this was impossible given how dangerous some aluminum-manufacturing jobs are, but alcoa’s safety record improved tremendously. as the board of governors of the american red cross considers planning, one option is to make strategic plans and then direct managers to align tactical and operational plans accordingly. another option is to have planning specialists managers across the organization make their own plans. why might this organization’s executives opt for the latter approach? check all that apply. (a) the environment is a dynamic one, and department and frontline managers can come up with more responsive plans than can central leadership. (b)resources will be better coordinated across the organization in support of the overall strategy.(c) senior leadership will have more control over the organization’s direction. (d)when managers come up with their own plans, they are likely to be more committed to following through on them.

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