Why Might a Company Not Choose to Outsource Certain Value

question 78

Multiple Choice

Why might a company not choose to outsource certain value chain activities presently performed in-house?

• A)because it streamlines company operations in ways that improve organizational flexibility and cuts the time it takes to get new products into the marketplace
• B)because it allows a company to concentrate on its core business, leverage its key resources, and do even better what it already does best
• C)because it helps the company assemble diverse kinds of expertise speedily and efficiently
• D)because it enables a company to gain better access to end users and better market visibility
• E)because it improves a company's ability to innovate

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A statistical technique for estimating the uncertainty of a parameter by resampling with replacement.

Percentile Method

A statistical calculation used to determine the value below which a given percentage of observations in a data set falls.

Resamples

The process of drawing repeated samples from observed data, with the aim of estimating a population parameter.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that quantifies the variability or dispersion of a sample mean relative to the true population mean.