Quantitative measures of a company's competitive strength:
A. signal which competitor has the most distinctive competencies and which competitor has the fewest.
B. provide useful indicators of how a company compares against key rivals, factor by factor and capability by capability—thus indicating whether the company has a net overall competitive advantage or disadvantage against each rival.
C. reveal which competitors are in the best and worst strategic groups.
D. show which industry rival has the best overall market opportunities and which competitor has the poorest market opportunities.
E. pinpoint which industry rival is subject to the least amount of competitive pressures from the five competitive forces.
Answer: provide useful indicators of how a company compares against key rivals, factor by factor and capability by capability—thus indicating whether the company has a net overall competitive advantage or disadvantage against each rival.