Holly Owns a Landscape Company and Is Thinking About Expanding

Holly owns a landscape company and is thinking about expanding her services to include outdoor water features (waterfalls, streams, ponds) . If, before making this decision, she looks at the experience of similar firms that have added outdoor water features, she is employing:

A) reasoning by analogy.
B) illusion of control.
C) devil's advocacy.
D) the outside view.
E) dialectic inquiry.