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. rank the attractiveness of the various industry value chains from best to worst.
D. ascertain which industries have the easiest-to-achieve key success factors.
E. 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.


Answer: E

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