Which of the following is not among the potential benefits that a company can gain by outsourcing value chain activities presently performed in$-$house? Improving a company's ability to innovate Providing a means of performing an activity better or more cheaply, especially when outsourcing the activity from capable outside specialists won't hollow out a company's core competencies $,$ capabilities $,$ or technical know $-$ how Helping to streamline company operations in ways that improve organizational flexibility or speed the time it takes to get new products to market Allowing a company to concentrate on its core business $,$ leverage its key resources $,$ and do even better what it already does best Improving a company's ability to lower the costs of integrating both forward and backward and also to transfer the risk of adverse changes in buyer demand for the company's product to outside vendors