Answer: contingency
Explanation:
Contingency planning is a form of planning that is used by an organization in order to plan ahead in case an event occurs. Contingency plans can also be called a 'Plan B' due to the fact that it's an alternative action in case things does not go as planned.
Therefore, based on the question, Pinnacle is practicing contingency planning.
Answer: c. a decision-making entity at a firm involved in a strategic game
Explanation:
In a theoretical game, there are two players that have to embark on different strategies such that they make the maximum payoff. This maximum payoff strategy is known as the dominant strategy.
These two players are the decision making entities in the firms that are competing in the game because they are the ones that decide how the firm should react and what strategy to use. For instance, the owners of the two bakeries down the street are the players because they control what either bakery will do.
Answer: b. The company did not define its business in terms of the benefits customers seek.
Explanation:
In order for a business to make money, it needs to provide its customers with what they want not what the company wants the customers to want.
In this scenario, people switched to shampoos that could be used by people of all ages instead of just small children because this is what they wanted but not what the company provided. If the company had defined its business in terms of what their customers wanted, they would have made an all age shampoo which would have been bought.
Answer:
The systems that support functions that are absolutely critical to the organization
Explanation:
Only the systems that support functions that are absolutely critical to the organization. Critical in such that it no organization can do without them, I.e they are very important to for their survival.
Decline, Processed, Apporved.