Identifying the primary and secondary activities that comprise a company's value chain

A. indicates whether a company's resource strengths will ultimately translate into greater value for shareholders.
B. reveals whether a company's resource strengths are well-matched to the industry's key success factors.
C. is the first step in understanding a company's cost structure (since each activity in the value chain gives rise to costs).
D. is called benchmarking.
E. is called resource value analysis.