On June $26,2018,$ CEO John Flannery of General Electric Company $($GE$)$ announced that the company planned to spin off its healthcare business and divest its stake in oil$-$services firm Baker Hughes. The slimmed$-$down company would re$-$focus on jet engines, power plants and renewable energy. What was not an important consideration for CEO Flannery when evaluating the merits of this diversified company's new strategy?

Select one:

A$.$ analyzing the strategic fits and resource fits among the various sister businesses

B$.$ ranking the performance prospects of the current portfolio of GE businesses from best to worst and deciding what priority to give each of the company's business units in allocating resources

C$.$ determining which business units were cash cows and which ones were cash hogs, and then evaluating how soon GE's cash hogs could be transformed into cash cows

D$.$ assessing the attractiveness of the industries GE had previously diversifled into, both individually and as a group

E$.$ assessing the competitive strength of each business $GE$ had previously diversified into