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Complete the following discussion by answering all the questions. Discussion post should be at least 500 words.

Discussion Questions:

1. How are the four building blocks of competitive advantage related to each other?
2. What role can top management play in helping a company achieve superior efficiency, quality, innovation, and responsiveness to customers?.
3. Over time, will the adption of Six Sigma quality improvement processes give a company a competitive advantage, or will it be required only to achieve parity with competitors?
4. What is the relationship between innovation and competitive advantage?
5. Discuss how a company can increase efficiency.
6. Discuss what a company may do to achieve high quality.
7. Discuss what a company may do to obtain a sustained competitive advantage through innovation.
8. Discuss how responsiveness to customers is by and large a function of efficiency, quality, and innovation.
9. Discuss diseconomies of scale, learning effects, and the experience curve.
10. Discuss total quality management within the framework of this module-in achieving, and maintaining, competitive advantage.