The value of doing competitive strength assessment is to:
A. determine how competitively powerful the company's core competencies are.
B. learn if the company's market opportunities are better than those of its rivals.
C. learn whether a company has a distinctive competence.
D. learn how the company ranks relative to rivals on each of the important factors that determine market success and ascertain whether the company has a net competitive advantage or disadvantage vis-à-vis key rivals.
E. determine whether a company's resource strengths are sufficient to allow it to earn bigger profits than rivals.
Answer: learn how the company ranks relative to rivals on each of the important factors that determine market success and ascertain whether the company has a net competitive advantage or disadvantage vis-à-vis key rivals.