Scenario The marketing manager has just emailed you to let you know that his team will be unavailable for the week due to another project starting tomorrow. You place a call to the sign manufacturer who tells that the graphic design work due from the marketing team has not arrived as yet and he is unable to create the signs you need. You need to find out and address what is going on before it becomes a much bigger issue.

1. Provide a written outline of your plan to address the issue. You must also explain the risks to the project and organisation.

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Goals that are overly ambitious can discourage employees and decrease motivation, yet the idea of stretch goals is proposed as a way to get people fired up and motivated. as a manager, how might you decide where to draw the line between a “good” stretch goal and a “bad” one that is unrealistic?

Coca-cola was primarily known for its core competencies in marketing, bottling, and distributing aerated drinks. however, with the success of gatorade, coca-cola developed competencies in the development and marketing of its own sports drink, powerade. which of the following is true of coca-cola? a. it is leveraging existing core competencies to improve current market position. b. it is building new core competencies to protect and extend its current market position. c. it is redeploying and recombining existing core competencies to compete in markets of the future. d. it is targeting the chasm between the early adopter and early majority market segment.