Nikki Krisak, a talented, well-established interior designer in the Pacific Northwest, has decided to do an internal analysis of her company, Northland Designs. You have been asked to advise Ms. Krisak in analyzing her company's strengths and weaknesses.

56) Northland Designs' ability to stay on the cutting edge of home interior trends throughout the company is called
A) a distinctive organizational capability.
B) a competitive intelligence.
C) a core weakness.
D) a core competency.
E) a core opportunity.

Choose the list of the best uses for word processing software. lists, resumes, writing a book, and payroll data letters to your friends, resumes, spreadsheets, and school papers resumes, cover letters, databases, and crossword puzzles book reports, letters to your friends, resumes, and contracts

True or flase? a. new technological developments can us adapt to depleting sources of natural resources. b. research and development funds from the government to private industry never pay off for the country as a whole; they only increase the profits of rich corporations. c. in order for fledgling industries in poor nations to thrive, they must receive protection from foreign trade. d. countries with few natural resources will always be poor. e. as long as real gdp (gross domestic product) grows at a slower rate than the population, per capita real gdp increases.

Helen tells her nephew, bernard, that she will pay him $100 if he will stop smoking for six months. helen was hopeful that if bernard stopped smoking for six months, he would stop altogether. bernard stops smoking for six months but then resumes his smoking. helen will not pay him. she says that the type of promise she made cannot constitute a binding contract and that, furthermore, it was at least implied that he would stop smoking for good. can bernard legally collect $100 from helen