CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2002
Question . 83
In the following question, the answer choices suggest alternative arrangements of four or more sentences (denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F). Choose the alternative which suggests a coherent paragraph.
A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to offer unique value.
C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough tradeoffs in choosing what not to do.
D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
E. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval, while constantly improving and extending its distinctive positioning.
F. When a company’s activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(a) The statement about strategy and discipline in A gives the tone to the passage. C follows by telling us that the strategy requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough tradeoffs. E continues by telling us how a company must stay the course, D states how strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices, B continues with the involvement of the configuration of a tailored value chain and F concludes with the companies activities fitting together as a self-reinforcing system in which any competitor has to replace the whole system if he wishes to imitate.