MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 9) Improving business processes by reengineering them, benchmarking specific activities against industry leaders, encouraging employee input to identify excess costs, increasing capacity utilization, and improving employee productivity lead to a significant overall gain. These are examples of which turnaround strategy used by successful companies? A) selective product and market pruning B) asset and cost surgery C) global expansion D) piecemeal productivity improvements