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Q1: how many products does every team start with
A: five
Q2: If there are two identical products, one that has 100% accessibility and one that has 0% accessibility,
A: the product with 100% accessibility will outsell the other 2 to 1 providing all other
attributes are identical.
Q3: What are three of the five Segments?
A: Traditional, Low End, Performance
Q4: A segment manager's task is to
A: verify the products entering and leaving a segment, the margin potential for those
products, capacity level and the distribution system as compared to competitors.
Q5: Successful managers will:
A: a. Create a strategy
b. Coordinate company activities
c. Analyze the market and its competing products
ALL OF THE ABOVE
Q6: What is the difference between the market segments at the beginning of the round to the final round?
A: The fine cuts overlap in the beginning and in year 8 only the rough cuts overlap.
Q7: After you have uploaded your decisions to the website, you can change your official decisions as many
times as you want prior to the processing date and time of the round.
A: true
Q8: On perceptual map, the percentage of customers interested in a product positioned outside of the rough
cuts of that product is
A: 0%
, Q9: What trend can be explicitly observed in the industry in which your company is operating?
A: Products become smaller and smaller.
Q10: MTBF is measured in
A: hour increments
Q11: Customers that want small products and are willing to sacrifice performance are in the
A: size segment
Q12: in capstone, pricing standards are set by
A: customers (market segment)
Q13: Reliability" is expressed in terms of:
A: mean time before failure
Q14: The two characteristics that the perceptual map evaluates are
A: performance and size
Q15: Over time, the segments will drift in which direction on the Perceptual Map?
A: down; right
Q16: The segments all drift to the lowerright section of the perceptual map. Why does this drift take place?
A: customers want smaller and faster products
Q17: The prices in each segment
A: drop by 50 cents each year
Q18: MTBF in the segments should be
A: mtbf (performance)>mtbf (high end)
AND
mtbf (low end) < mtbf (size)
Answers
Q1: how many products does every team start with
A: five
Q2: If there are two identical products, one that has 100% accessibility and one that has 0% accessibility,
A: the product with 100% accessibility will outsell the other 2 to 1 providing all other
attributes are identical.
Q3: What are three of the five Segments?
A: Traditional, Low End, Performance
Q4: A segment manager's task is to
A: verify the products entering and leaving a segment, the margin potential for those
products, capacity level and the distribution system as compared to competitors.
Q5: Successful managers will:
A: a. Create a strategy
b. Coordinate company activities
c. Analyze the market and its competing products
ALL OF THE ABOVE
Q6: What is the difference between the market segments at the beginning of the round to the final round?
A: The fine cuts overlap in the beginning and in year 8 only the rough cuts overlap.
Q7: After you have uploaded your decisions to the website, you can change your official decisions as many
times as you want prior to the processing date and time of the round.
A: true
Q8: On perceptual map, the percentage of customers interested in a product positioned outside of the rough
cuts of that product is
A: 0%
, Q9: What trend can be explicitly observed in the industry in which your company is operating?
A: Products become smaller and smaller.
Q10: MTBF is measured in
A: hour increments
Q11: Customers that want small products and are willing to sacrifice performance are in the
A: size segment
Q12: in capstone, pricing standards are set by
A: customers (market segment)
Q13: Reliability" is expressed in terms of:
A: mean time before failure
Q14: The two characteristics that the perceptual map evaluates are
A: performance and size
Q15: Over time, the segments will drift in which direction on the Perceptual Map?
A: down; right
Q16: The segments all drift to the lowerright section of the perceptual map. Why does this drift take place?
A: customers want smaller and faster products
Q17: The prices in each segment
A: drop by 50 cents each year
Q18: MTBF in the segments should be
A: mtbf (performance)>mtbf (high end)
AND
mtbf (low end) < mtbf (size)
