The spotlight in analyzing a company's resources, internal circumstances, and competitiveness includes such questions/concerns as:
A. whether the company's present strategy is better than the strategies of its closest rivals based on such performance measures as earnings per share, ROE, dividend payout ratio, and average annual increase in the common stock price.
B. whether the company's key success factors are more dominant than the key success factors of close rivals.
C. whether the company has the industry's most efficient and effective value chain.
D. what are the company's resource strengths and weaknesses and its external opportunities and threats.
E. what new acquisitions the company would be well advised to make in order to strengthen its financial performance and overall balance sheet position.
Answer: what are the company's resource strengths and weaknesses and its external opportunities and threats.