Question

Which of the following is not part of the procedure for evaluating the pluses and minuses of a diversified company's strategy and deciding what actions to take to improve the company's performance?

Ranking the performance prospects of the various businesses from best to worst and determining what the corporate parent's priorities should be in allocating resources to its different businesses
Assessing the competitive strength of each business the company has diversified into and drawing a nine-cell matrix to simultaneously portray industry attractiveness and business unit competitive strength
Checking for conflicts/incompatibility among the competitive strategies of the company's different businesses
Evaluating the competitive advantage potential of cross-business strategic fits along the value chains of the company's various business units
Checking whether the company's resources fit the requirements of its present business lineup

Answer 1

Answer: Checking for conflicts/Incompatibility among the competitive strategies of the company different business.

Step-by-step explanation:

This will be a waste of effort and resources because the business are different there strategies are bound to be different, trying to reconcile different strategies for different business is uncalled for and not necessary.

Ranking the performance prospect of the business, accessing the competitive strength of each busines the company has diversity into, evaluation the prospective advantage of cross busines strategic fits along the value chain of the company's various busines, checking whether the company's resources meets the current requirements of it's business line up will all help to improve the company's performance.