are the aspects of business that a firm performs better than other companies in the same industry.

Distinctive Competencies.

Explanation:

A company's distinctive competence is an organization's ability to outperform other competing organizations, which creates a competitive advantage in the sector in which it operates.

A company's distinctive competence can come from its production processes, work processes, organizational resources, technologies, strategy, etc. It is all the competence of an organization that creates a value for itself higher than that of its competitors.

It is essential that companies develop strategies that assist in reaching distinctive competencies, which enable companies to position themselves in the market, achieve greater consumer loyalty, attract investors, reduce costs and generate profitability for the company.

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a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.