When Fisher-Price Managers Attempted to Redesign Its Classic Toy, the Chatter

question 76

Multiple Choice

When Fisher-Price managers attempted to redesign its classic toy, the Chatter Telephone, they considered adding a noisemaker, wheels, and eyes to a basic plastic telephone, and thus they developed several

• A) virtual prototypes.
• B) product substitutes.
• C) product hypotheses.
• D) new-product concepts.
• E) new-feature matrices.

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