E-Lab (The "E" Stands for Experience) Has Project Teams Perform

question 127

Multiple Choice

E-Lab (the "E" stands for experience) has project teams perform field research for its clients. One team had to spend time riding in the back seat of a squad car, accompanying cops on drug raids, as part of research for a new communications device for police departments. Another team studied how people get sick with a cold to create a new over-the-counter cold remedy. Often clients give team members extremely ambitious goals which the team members initially have no idea how to solve. In other words, project teams are given .

• A) temporal missions
• B) myopic visions
• C) proximity goals
• D) options-based objectives
• E) stretch goals

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