Outsourcing value chain activities has such strategy-executing advantages as

(A) less internal bureaucracy, speedier decision-making, quicker responses to changing market conditions, and heightened focus on performing a select few value chain activities (which can improve performance of those activities).(B) facilitating the empowerment of employees (because there are less things to do internally).(C) promoting a total quality management culture.(D) reducing the need to establish a strongly implanted corporate culture.(E) reducing the strategic importance of building valuable core competencies.