When Louis Gerstner took over IBM he determined that planning should have all of the following activities except:
A) ensuring external opportunities and threats were the focus of the planning not internal organizational issues
B) ensuring that the plan focused on key implementation issues
C) structuring on going processes to reexamine fundamental strategic challenges
D) ensuring allocation decisions were not impacted by short term shifts in strategy
E) promoting widespread support and involvement in process

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Louis Gerstner emphasized the importance of focusing on external opportunities and threats, key implementation issues, reexamining strategic challenges, and promoting widespread support, but not on ensuring allocation decisions were unaffected by short-term strategy shifts.

When Louis Gerstner Took Over IBM He Determined That Planning