The Product Development Process New goods and services keep current customers coming back for more and draw new customers into the market. Broad product assortments also help to diversify the firm's portfolio, thus lowering its overall risk and enhancing its value. This activity is important because although new-to-the-world products carry significant risk, they have tremendous potential because they offer something that has never before been available. Match each example to the corresponding step in the process.

1. Prototypes 4. Big Box

2. Presentation 5. Samples

3. Strong Sales 6. Brainstorm

Idea Generation Concept Testing Product Development Market Testing Product Launch Evaluation of Results

The plastic flowerpots company has two manufacturing departments, molding and packaging. at the beginning of the month, the molding department has 2,100 units in inventory, 70% complete as to materials. during the month, the molding department started 18,500 units. at the end of the month, the molding department had 3,150 units in ending inventory, 80% complete as to materials. units completed in the molding department are transferred into the packaging department. cost information for the molding department for the month follows: beginning work in process inventory (direct materials) $ 1,300 direct materials added during the month 28,900 using the weighted-average method, compute the molding department's (a) equivalent units of production for materials and (b) cost per equivalent unit of production for materials for the month. (round "cost per equivalent unit of production" to 2 decimal places.)

As manager of kids skids, meghan wants to develop her relationship management skills. in order to do this, she learns how to

Money aggregates identify whether each of the following examples belongs in m1 or m2. if an example belongs in both, be sure to check both boxes. example m1 m2 gilberto has a roll of quarters that he just withdrew from the bank to do laundry. lorenzo has $25,000 in a money market account. neha has $8,000 in a two-year certificate of deposit (cd).