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.
Answer: switching to activity-based costing.