Metavante Corporation is a provider of data processing for banking companies. In a ____ change, it decided to buy Derivion Corporation, a company that allows organizations that bill consumers -- utilities, insurance firms, and telecommunications companies -- to outsource electronic billing functions. Metavante has a long-term growth strategy that it has been implementing in an orderly fashion, and the purchase seemed appropriate to further its strategy.

functional
planned
line management
reactive
hierarchical