A Company's Strategic Options for Remedying Cost Disadvantages in Internally

Multiple Choice

A company's strategic options for remedying cost disadvantages in internally performed value chain activities do not include

A) revamping its value chain to eliminate or bypass some cost-producing activities (particularly low value-added activities) .
B) implementing the use of best practices, particularly for high-cost activities.
C) investing in productivity-enhancing, cost-saving technological improvements.
D) switching to activity-based costing.
E) outsourcing the performance of high-cost activities to vendors that can perform them more cheaply.