Benchmarking Multiple Choice is inherently unethical if it involves companies that are direct competitors because it involves gathering competitively sensitive information about the operations and costs of rivals. is not a valid tool for measuring the cost-effectiveness of an activity unless it is restricted to companies in the same industry. entails comparing how different companies perform various value chain activities and then making cross-company comparisons of the costs of these activities. loses much of its managerial usefulness if it is done with the aid of third-party organizations. entails calculating the costs of performing each of the primary and related support activities in a company's value chain.

The defendant, angered because a rival gang member had twice beaten him up after school, obtained a heavy lead pipe and waited in a deserted alleyway which he knew the rival took as a route home every day after school. when his enemy came walking down the alley, the defendant leapt out behind him and smashed the pipe into the victim's head, knocking him to the ground. the defendant then rolled the victim over and pounded his face with 15 to 20 heavy blows with the lead pipe, killing him. the jurisdiction defines first degree murder as murder committed with premeditation and deliberation. all other murders are defined as second degree murders. why will the defendant be convicted of first degree murder (as opposed to second degree murder)?