Sony entered into a strategic partnership with Samsung in order to produce flat-panel TV screens due to the high product development costs

It has been argued that the success of Japanese enterprises in the global economy has been based partly on which of the following?

a) high degree of managerial mobility between companies b) consolidation of self-managing work teams c) compartmentalization of different functions within Japanese companies d) cooperation between a company and its suppliers on issues such as design, quality control and inventory reduction

John has to spend about five hours writing a report. He considers spending an hour each day for a week writing on his laptop at a local coffee shop

He also considers hunkering down in his cubicle with headphones on and working for five hours straight. Discuss the advantages and disadvantage of each to determine which approach is optimal. What will be an ideal response?