a. True
b. False
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
29. Fournotts Corp. manufactures and sells accessories for cell phones. To boost its sales, the research and development
team decides to use product modification as an approach to new product development. In this scenario, the research and
development team will most likely:
a. eliminate products that are inconsistent with Fournotts’s business mission.
b. develop products by applying new technology.
c. make a slight change in the design or function of the existing products.
d. add new products to supplement Fournotts’s established product line.
30. Advertising and other promotional materials for a variety of products, including the test product, are shown to
members of the product’s target market. These people are then taken to shop at a mock or real store, where their purchases
are recorded. This is part of the process involved in ______.
a. simulated (laboratory) market testing
b. scanner-based research
c. simultaneous product development
d. customer relationship management
31. Which of the following is a characteristic of products produced by multinational corporations?
a. Products are developed for global distribution and then tweaked to meet unique market requirements whenever
possible.
b. A firm that starts with a local strategy is better able to develop global products.
c. Products are inadequately distributed in local markets.
d. Test marketing is not required for products developed by multinational firms.
32. Hakimo Corp., a manufacturer of audio equipment, has developed a unique wireless speaker system that runs on solar
power. The speakers can operate for 16 hours after being exposed to the sun for 2 hours. This product, which is radically
different from anything available in the market, falls into which category of new products?
a. Repositioned products
b. Revised products
c. Discontinuous innovations
d. New and improved products
33. Which of the following is the most important factor in successful new-product introduction?
a. The features of the new product should be similar to its substitutes in the market.
b. The product should not be developed using crowdsourcing.
c. The new product should be priced lower than the other products in the same category.
d. The new product should deliver a meaningful and perceivable benefit to a sizable number of people.
34. When advertising a test product, should test locations in particular markets be isolated from media with a far reach,
such as television?
a. No, if media advertising cannot reach outside that particular market, it will fail to project the product’s true
potential outside the market and thus the product may then appear less successful than it could be.