The Chief Purpose of Calculating Quantitative Industry Attractiveness Scores for Each

question 6

Multiple Choice

The chief purpose of calculating quantitative industry attractiveness scores for each industry a company has diversified into is to

• A)determine which industry is the biggest and fastest growing.
• B)get in position to rank the industries from most competitive to least competitive.
• C)provide a basis for drawing analysis-based conclusions about the attractiveness of the industries a company has diversified into, both individually and as a group, and further to provide an indication of which industries offer the best and worst long-term prospects.
• D)ascertain which industries have the easiest-to-achieve key success factors.
• E)rank the attractiveness of the various industry value chains from best to worst.

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