The Strategic Options to Improve a Diversified Company's Overall Performance

The strategic options to improve a diversified company's overall performance do not include which of the following categories of actions?

A) Broadening the company's business scope by making new acquisitions in new industries
B) Increasing dividend payments to shareholders and/or repurchasing shares of the company's stock
C) Restructuring the company's business lineup and putting a whole new face on the company's business makeup
D) Sticking closely with the existing business lineup and pursuing opportunities these businesses present
E) Divesting weak-performing businesses and retrenching to a narrower base of business operations