Practice question · Multiple choice
A plant produces flawless parts at record low cost, parts for a product the market stopped wanting a year ago. Drucker would call this…
Hints
- Efficiency = doing things right; effectiveness = doing the right things.
- The parts are perfect. Are they the right parts?
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A. High efficiency, low effectiveness
Why
Efficiency without effectiveness is polished waste. The failure sits upstream in planning, the choice of what to produce, which no amount of downstream excellence can repair.
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