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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Definitions:

Object Permanence

Piaget’s term for the understanding that a person or object still exists when out of sight.

Centration

In Piaget’s theory, the tendency of preoperational children to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.

Socioeconomic Status

A measure of an individual's or family's economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation.

Deferred Imitation

Piaget’s term for reproduction of an observed behavior after the passage of time by calling up a stored symbol of it.