The stage-gate development funnel is used to filter out and choose which ______ will be developed.

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The coordinated sequence of functional activities necessary to transform inputs into the finished goods or services is called the:

Value chain

What are the two principal kinds of innovation?

Incremental product & quantum products

Of the two types of innovation processes, which is the most common?

Incremental

What aspect of management is involved in bringing new or improved goods and services to the market?

Product development

According to the textbook, the three strategies that managers use to develop innovative products are :

Establish cross-functional teams & establish a stage-gate development funnel & involve both customers and suppliers

A strategy to evaluate product development proposals and decide which to support or reject, is . ________.

stage-gate development funnel

The stage gate development funnel is used to filter out and choose which ______ will be developed.

Products

Stage gate development -

technique that managers use to focus on main projects and not spread thinly over too many projects

Stage 1 - managers encourage employees to come up with as many new product ideas

Gate 1 - Proposals are submitted to a cross-functional team of managers

Stage 2 - draft a detailed product development plan

Gate 2 - plan reviewed by senior management committee

Stage 3 - the Development stage

A complete product development plan includes _________.

An analysis of the product's market potential

strategic and financial objectives

a list of technological requirements

a list of desired product features

Developing a product development plan can take about:

3 months

Cross-functional teams, which include many different managers in different departments, allow for a _______. Important to have a leader to give team direction and focus.

high level of coordination, for functional managers

development of new, often radically different, kinds of goods and services

Quantum product

improvements and refinements of existing products over time

incremental product

The product development plan should include a list of ________.

Human resource requirements & financial requirements

Product layout

Machines are organized so that each operation needed to manufacture a product or process a patient is performed at a workstation arranged in a fixed sequence

fixed - position layout

the product stays in a fixed position. Its component parts are produced in remote workstations and brought to the production area for final assembly

process layout

Workstations are not organized in a fixed sequence. Rather each workstation is relatively self - contained, and a product goes to whichever workstation is needed to perform the next operation to complete the product

What are the general qualities or attributes that define what customers want?

Customized to their needs

Quick Service

low price

high quality

What are two main concerns for facillty managers when designing facility layout?

Cost of setting up equipment & location of workers and machines

Organizations must correctly identify their _________ and pursue strategies that best meet their needs.

Customers

With the use of technology the value chain process can be _________

improved

The _____ plan specifies all of the relevant information that managers need to decide whether to go ahead with a full-blown product development effort.

Product development

________ focuses on improving the quality of an organization's products and stresses that all of an organization's value chain activities should be directed toward this goal.

Total Quality Management

Which of the following best describes customer relationship management (CRM)?

Developing an ongoing relationship with customers

_________ focuses on improving value chain processes to increase quality

Six Sigma

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What aspect of management is involved in bringing new or improved goods and services to the market quizlet?

Product development is the management of the value chain activities involved in bringing new or improved goods and services to the market.

Which product innovation results in gradual improvements and refinements of products over time?

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