What kind of structure might a company employ to dedicate resources for developing and exploiting new disruptive technologies while maximizing sales from existing technologies?

D. The company can establish a separate division dedicated to the new technology with distinct R&D and sales resources.

Explanation:

By establishing a dedicated division to the new technology, the organization could still maximize sales from the old/existing technology. With the new technology having it's own research and development and sales resources dedicated specially for it, it means that the existing one ls still able to operate at fully capacity because there's no sharing of resources between the old and new technology.

answer; i believe the correct answer is (business necessity defense;

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.