All of the Following Contribute to a Firm's Inability to Meet

Multiple Choice

 All of the following contribute to a firm's inability to meet customer needs EXCEPT:

A)  inadequacy of upfront intelligence efforts.
B)  failure on the part of the company to stick close to its core competencies.
C)  inability to provide better value than competing products and technologies.
D)  new product sales grow far more rapidly than sales of current products.