All of the Following Are Legitimate Sources of New Product

question 94

Multiple Choice

All of the following are legitimate sources of new product ideas within the framework of a formal product development process except

• A) business personnel.
• B) customer requests or suggestions.
• C) government-owned patents.
• D) competitor-owned patents.

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Definitions:

Efficiency

The ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.

Resource Inputs

The materials, capital, energy, information, and human skills required to produce goods or services.

Measures For Efficiency

Metrics or standards used to evaluate how effectively and economically tasks or processes are performed.

Time

A continuous dimension in which events occur in an irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future, fundamental to all aspects of life and work.