Refer to the Scenario Below to Answer the Following Questions

question 66

Multiple Choice

Refer to the scenario below to answer the following questions.
Dave's Doughnuts (Scenario)
Dave Glazer is the owner of Dave's Doughnuts, a five-store chain of doughnut shops located in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. At weekly management meetings, Dave asks each of the five store managers to report on local trends and new customer requests.
-Occasionally, Dave will purchase a popular new doughnut from a competitor and send it to a food laboratory in Vancouver for analysis. The lab provides a breakdown of the ingredients so Dave can learn the competitor's secrets. Dave is engaging in which process?

• A) process reengineering
• B) regression analysis
• C) product deconstruction
• D) qualitative forecasting
• E) reverse engineering

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Logical Thinking

The process of reasoning consistently and systematically to come to a conclusion.

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