Outsourcing the performance of value chain activities presently performed in-house to outside vendors and suppliers makes strategic sense EXCEPT when:
A. an activity can be performed better or more cheaply by outside specialists.
B. it allows a company to focus its entire energies on its core business, leverage its key resources, and do even better what it already does best.
C. it restricts a company's ability to assemble diverse kinds of expertise speedily and efficiently.
D. it reduces the company's risk exposure to changing technology and/or changing buyer preferences.
E. All of these.
Answer: it restricts a company's ability to assemble diverse kinds of expertise speedily and efficiently.