A Firm Must Devote People, Time, and Money to Designing

question 189

Multiple Choice

A firm must devote people, time, and money to designing a new product.Because any firm has only limited resources, it

• A)should wait until its competitors develop a similar product before deciding on devoting resources to its own product development.
• B)is not able to develop more than one new product at a time.
• C)must be certain that the product it chooses to develop will be successful or it will not be able to stay in business.
• D)faces a trade-off, because resources used to develop one product will not be available to develop another product.

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