When implementing a blue ocean strategy, you should ask all of the following questions EXCEPT:

A$.$ What user benefits have never been offered in a particular industry that may substantially increase perceived customer value at a reasonable cost to the company?

B$.$ Which user benefits should be raised well above the industry standard?

C$.$ Which user benefits should be maintained at current levels?

D$.$ Which user benefits should be dropped because the industry takes them for granted?

E$.$ Which user benefits should be reduced well below the industry standard because the industry doesn$$t value the higher threshold?

Unrelated corporate diversification has fallen out of favor for all of the following reasons EXCEPT?

A$.$ Corporate portfolio risk reduction can be better accomplished by investors through mutual funds and other diversification strategies.

B$.$ Core competencies are more difficult to transfer to companies diversified in unrelated businesses.

C$.$ Corporations pursuing unrelated diversification often suffer a corporate valuation discount, yielding a portfolio value that is lower than the sum of its individual business units.

D$.$ Data show that neither related nor unrelated diversification increases shareholder value.

E$.$ It is easier to realize economies of scale in a single business unit than economies of scope in unrelated business units.