A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Group of Businesses a Company

question 140

Multiple Choice

A comprehensive evaluation of the group of businesses a company has diversified into involves:

• A) evaluating the attractiveness of industries the company has diversified into and the competitive strength of each of its business units.
• B) evaluating the strategic fits and resource fits among the various sister businesses.
• C) ranking the performance prospects of the businesses from best to worst and determining what the corporate parent's priorities should be in allocating resources to its various businesses.
• D) using the results of the prior analytical steps as a basis for crafting new strategic moves to improve the company's overall performance.
• E) All of these.

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