You Decide That Your Company's Choice of Which New Product

question 19

Multiple Choice

You decide that your company's choice of which new product to manufacture needs to have widespread acceptance and that this decision needs to be of the highest quality possible. Having read the literature on decision making, you believe that this choice needs to be made by a group of your best managers.
-You have decided to use the nominal group technique. Which is true about this method?

• A) This method is good for encouraging independent thinking.
• B) This method requires a great deal of face-to-face interaction.
• C) This method is good for processing ideas rapidly.
• D) This method is good for building group cohesiveness.
• E) This method is an inexpensive means for generating a large number of ideas.

Acknowledge the ending phase of projects as an opportunity for enhancing customer and team satisfaction.

Realize the complexities involved in procurement and the selection of commodities or services based on their characteristics.

Understand the applications and limitations of statistical rules (Empirical Rule, Tchebysheff's Theorem) in describing data.

Differentiate between parameters and statistics in descriptive statistics.

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