問1
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他社が開発した先進的な技術と, 高い研究開発能力をもった人材を, 自社固有の経営資源として取り込むことが可能な戦略はどれか。
平成22年度 春期 ITパスポート試験 問1
ストラテジ系経営戦略マネジメント › 経営戦略手法
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問 1
- ア
正解 The correct answer is ア, M&A. M&A stands for Mergers and Acquisitions, a strategy of buying another company itself, or a business division of another company, and bringing it under one’s own company. Once an acquisition goes through, both the advanced technologies (patents and know-how) the other company holds and its engineers and researchers with high R&D capabilities become one’s own company’s management resources all at once. Only this choice satisfies the condition in the question of taking them in as one’s own company’s proprietary management resources — that is, owning them as one’s own alone rather than sharing them with another company. Because technology and people can be obtained in a shorter time than by growing them in-house, it is also called a strategy of buying time.
Incorrectイ
R&D stands for Research and Development, and it refers to the activity of creating new technologies and new products inside one’s own company. It is an approach of developing from scratch with one’s own resources, not a means of taking in technologies that other companies have already developed or personnel from other companies, so it does not match the condition in the question.
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An alliance is a partnership or collaborative relationship formed by several companies while each of them keeps its independence. They can produce results together, but the partner company’s technologies and personnel stay with that partner company and do not become one’s own company’s proprietary management resources. If the partnership is dissolved, those technologies and people go away with it.
Incorrectエ
A technology partnership is a cooperative relationship in which a specific technology is licensed or developed jointly, and it is one form of alliance. You can obtain the right to use the technology, but the partner also keeps holding that technology, so it cannot be called proprietary to one’s own company, much less can the partner’s R&D personnel be taken in along with it.
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- M&A (mergers and acquisitions) is a strategy that lets a company acquire another company’s technologies, personnel, customer base, brand, and so on all at once as its own management resources. Its characteristic is that management resources can be obtained in a shorter time than by developing them in-house.
- Alliances and technology partnerships are collaborations in which each company stays independent, and ownership of the management resources remains with the partner company. Whether you can read “taking them in as one’s own company’s proprietary management resources” as “making them one’s own, ownership included” is the decisive point that separates M&A from a partnership.
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