A Company Is Screening Ideas for New Services

question 4

Multiple Choice

A company is screening ideas for new services.Five alternative service ideas are being considered.Management identified four criteria and weighted them as follows: A = 30,B = 10,C = 20,and D = 40.They have also come up with scored values for the five alternatives and the four criteria as shown below.Management has decided that if an alternative has less than a total scored value of 600,it should automatically be rejected.Use the preference matrix technique to determine which idea should be accepted.

• A)service #1 or #2
• B)service #3 or #4
• C)service #5
• D)none

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