"The Information and Communication Technology sector in Apulia is in full recovery. After the 2.4% decline recorded in 2020, the Apulian digital market -- valued just under three billion -- is regaining ground, resuming the steady growth seen in recent years. Despite the difficulties companies face in finding all the specific professionals, whom the university system can only partially train, the upward trend has resumed.
As demonstrated by the results of Exprivia, active in ICT and listed on the MTA market of the Milan Stock Exchange, in the first quarter, the revenue of this big player -- total revenues in 2020 at 167.8 million, 2,400 professionals distributed in 7 countries worldwide -- grew by 5.4% compared to the same period in 2020, rising from 38 to 41 million. Profitability has grown and continues to grow, which in 2020 was 12.7 percent. 'Companies,' explains Gianni Sebastiano, Investor Relator of the group led by Domenico Favuzzi, 'are recovering profitability because they are revising their processes. The more digitalization you put into processes, the more you impact efficiency and costs: this is the great lesson of the pandemic.' The Apulian company aims to consolidate the growth recorded in recent months in all the markets in which it operates as a system integrator: public administration, banks, aerospace, local health, telemedicine."
from "Il Sole 24 ore" 28 June 2021
Indicate which of the following statements is NOT correct:
A) the pandemic was one the factors that led to the digitalization of company processes.
B) despite shortages in the number of adequate professionals, the Apulian digital sector has recorded increased profitability over the past year.
C) the digitalization of company processes is one of the principle causes for the economic growth of the sector.
D) the pandemic ensured the growth of the Apulian digital sector because companies in the sector transformed into digital companies.
E) the growth of the Apulian digital sector is due to, among other reasons, revisions in company processes.
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The correct answer is D) the pandemic ensured the growth of the Apulian digital sector because companies in the sector transformed into digital companies.
You need the statement the article doesn't support.
The article says digitalising processes makes companies more efficient and cuts costs, and calls that "the great lesson of the pandemic". It never says the pandemic ensured the sector's growth, or that ICT firms "transformed into digital companies" (they already were). The numbers even point the other way: the sector fell 2.4% in 2020, the pandemic year, and only recovered afterwards.
The other four statements are all backed by the text: process revision as one reason for recovery, profitability growing despite the skills shortage, the pandemic pushing digitalisation, and digitalisation as a driver of growth.
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