Prep07 Q36

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Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself.  Vernon, Inc., a small manufacturing company that has in recent years experienced a decline in its profits, plans to boost its profits by outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?

(A) Among the parts of its business that Vernon does not plan to outsource are some that require standards of accuracy too high for most independent suppliers to provide at lower cost than Vernon can.
(B) Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers that formerly made those items themselves.
(C) Relatively few manufacturers that start as independent suppliers have been able to expand their business and become direct competitors of the companies they once supplied.
(D) Vernon plans to select the independent suppliers it will use on the basis of submitted bids.
(E) Attending to certain tasks that Vernon performs relatively inefficiently has taken up much of the time and effort of top managers whose time would have been better spent attending to Vernon's core business.

C 选项， 我理解是 几乎没有独立供应商（外包商）可以发展企业最后成为他曾经提供产品的公司的直接竞争者。

这样的话保证了 Vernon 外包的时候 他们所用的supplier最终将来不会成为Vernon自己的直接竞争者，从而 boost its profits。
这样子不是加强了么？

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拧发条喵

可以搜索一下 这道题讨论过很多次了

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拧发条喵 发表于 2013-10-2 22:55
可以搜索一下 这道题讨论过很多次了

搜索过了 没有人像我对C选项的思路呀。

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PMFTOTC 发表于 2013-10-2 23:03
搜索过了 没有人像我对C选项的思路呀。

你这是take a logical leap了啊
竞争者和profit之间有logical gap的

比如 C 外包商可能不会成为竞争者→竞争者少→市场环境宽松→带来营销等成本小有利条件→利润提高
E 管理者能更好的管理核心业务→ 核心业务效率提高→利润提高