The task of stitching together a strategy

A$.$

entails addressing a series of hows: how to grow the business, how to please customers, how to outcompete rivals, how to respond to changing market conditions, and how to achieve strategic and financial objectives.

B$.$

is primarily an exercise in deciding which of several freshly emerging market opportunities to pursue.

C$.$

is mainly an exercise that should be dictated by what is comfortable to management from a risk perspective and what is acceptable in terms of capital requirements.

D$.$

requires trying to copy the strategies of industry leaders as closely as possible.

E$.$

is mainly an exercise in good planning.