Competitive Options Companies have five competitive options available to them. Take a look at each of the following companies and explain their competitive strategy in terms of the five options. Also, give an example of how companies in the same industry compete. (For example, Rolls-Royce competes with high quality while Kia competes with the price.) Competitive Strategy Five Options: Cost Quality Time Flexibility Innovation  Companies: Disneyland

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Explain the concepts of Quality, Innovation and Competitiveness and if you believe that there is (or is not) a correlation between them, explain why.

Identify and describe an American firm of your choice that is challenged in its production operations to support its basic business needs to manufacture a high-quality product, safely, within budget, and on schedule. Its operations management is characterized by a culture that supports the vision and mission statements. This business problem (its production operations) includes a mismanaged supply chain, massive overtime wage payouts to make up for lost time injuries, increasing turnover and no shows at the work site, and where there is a spike in customer complaints resulting in business loss and narrowing profit margins.   As a decision maker, what action plan would you recommend to the senior leadership of the organization to take it from its current conditions to bring it closer to its ideal operating conditions (to become a company known for zero-defects, excellence in supply chain management, customer satisfaction, safe and reliable high-quality products, value to the customer,…