Bubble-up, inc., is a small manufacturer of educational toys for children under age 10. it has co-existed with three other competitors in the educational toy industry for over 20 years, each of them maintaining a stable market share. there is a wide-spread rumor that mega-toy, inc., the market leader in the broad children's toy market, has decided to target educational toys. which of these statements is most likely true? a. the owners of bubble-up are unconcerned about mega-toy's entry to the market because of the resource dissimilarity between the firms. b. bubble-up's greater organizational slack will allow it to aggressively attack mega-toy. c. bubble-up's smaller size may make it more flexible in introducing innovations than mega-toy. d. competitive rivalry will not increase for bubble-up because mega-toy is not dependent on the educational toy market.

Imagine us is a startup that offers high definition 3d prenatal ultrasounds for high-end customers. the service process includes four activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (the time required for each activity is shown in parentheses): activity 1: welcome a patient and explain the procedure. (20 minutes)activity 2: prep the patient (e.g., show them to the room, apply ultrasound gel). (17 minutes) (*your id number represents the amount of time needed to complete this task)activity 3: take images. (5 minutes)activity 4: discuss diagnostic with patient. (20 minutes)at each location there are employees (servers) s1, s2, and s3. the assignment of tasks to servers is the following: s1 does activities 1 and 2.s2 does activity 3.s3 does activity 4.a. what is the capacity of this process (in customers per hour)? b. suppose 3 patients arrive every hour on average. ignoring any “start of day” or “end of day” effects, what are the utilizations of all three servers (%)? c. suppose each activity can be done by any server and any server can do any set of activities. however, each activity is done by only one server. for example, a possible assignment includes: s1 does activity 1, s2 does activity 2, and s3 does activities 3 and 4. of course, the original assignment of servers to activities is also feasible. what is the maximum capacity of the process (in customers per hour)? d. now consider the capacity measures in (c) and (a), what is the percentage change? why can you improve capacity without using additional resources? (there is no free lunch, right? )note: for all hw assignments, show your process of getting the results. only providing the final answers is not acceptable and will get 0%. if necessary, use a separate sheet of paper to show your work.