Multiple Choice
The risks of a focus strategy include:
A) a competitor's ability to use its core competencies to outfocus the focuser by serving an even more narrowly defined segment.
B) a competitor's ability to use its core competencies to outfocus the focuser by serving an even more broadly defined segment.
C) decisions by industry-wide competitors to use their resources to serve a wider range of customers' specialized needs than the focuser has been serving.
D) decisions by focused competitors to use their resources to serve a wider range of customers' needs.
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