the time series competitive efforts section of the competitive intelligence report which provides every company's management team with a means of reviewing how the regional competitive efforts of any company of interest have changed over the years is particularly useful for: group of answer choices identifying which rival companies are your company's closest competitors because their prices, s/q ratings, and models/styles are comparable to those of your company in most every region, if not all regions. obtaining clues about how to achieve lower costs per branded pair sold. identifying the geographic region in which the industry's best-performing company earns the highest operating profit per branded pair sold and then determining what levels of competitive efforts it will take to successfully attack and outcompete this company in this region in the next decision round. determining how many models/styles your company will likely need to offer in each region in the upcoming decision round in order to outcompete rivals on this important competitive factor. drawing conclusions about the levels of competitive effort your company's closest competitors may employ in the year or two ahead and then determining what levels of competitive effort your company may need to employ on these same or other competitively relevant factors to successfully outmaneuver and outperform one or more of them.