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21.

The goal of strategic management is to

Answer: achieve and maintain competitive advantage.

22. Strategic management focuses on integrating management, ______, and information systems to
achieve organizational success.

Answer: all of the above

23. What can be defined as the art and science of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-
functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives?

Answer: Strategic management

24. Sometimes ______ is used to refer to strategic formulation, implementation and evaluation,
with ______ referring only to strategic formulation.

Answer: strategic management; strategic planning

25. During what stage of strategic management are a firm's specific internal strengths and
weaknesses determined?

Answer: Formulation

26. An important activity in ______ is taking corrective action.

Answer: strategy evaluation

27. What types of skills are especially critical for successful strategy implementation?

Answer: Interpersonal

28. ______ is NOT a strategy-implementation activity.

Answer: Taking corrective actions

29. Strategy evaluation is necessary because

Answer: internal and external factors are constantly changing.

30. Which statement best describes intuition?

Answer: It should be coupled with analysis in decision-making.

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