A company's biggest vulnerability in employing a best-cost provider strategy is:
A. relying too heavily on outsourcing.
B. getting squeezed between the strategies of firms employing low-cost provider strategies and high-end differentiation strategies.
C. getting trapped in a price war with low-cost leaders.
D. being timid in cutting its prices far enough below high-end differentiators to win away many of their customers.
E. not having a sustainable distinctive competence in cost reduction.
Answer: getting squeezed between the strategies of firms employing low-cost provider strategies and high-end differentiation strategies.