MAC II Dakota Office Products Q1) Why was Dakota’s existing pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? The existing policies being followed by Dakota regarding Accounts receivables are a major issue‚ which is affecting its payment of working capital line of credit (@10%). Customer A pays its bill within 30 days‚ whereas B takes up 90 days or more. Dakota can achieve sufficient liquidity‚ if it tightens its credit policy. | | | | | 2) Develop an activity
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Question 32. Define a new product and new product development process. Companies that excel at developing and managing new products reap big rewards. New products are the lifeblood of the company. A new product is a product: • That opens an entirely new market. • That adapts and replaces an existing product. • That significantly broadens the market for an existing product. • An old product introduced in a new market. • An old product packaged in a different way
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up.” (Saunders & Pearlson ‚ 2013) Several factors contributed to the financial struggles of the Lego Corporation in 2004‚ which almost led to the demise of the company. The company had issues such as poor overall performance‚ missing deadlines; product development times were longer than anticipated. Lego’s delivery record was becoming problematic‚ the popular sets were running out quickly with little to no stock incoming to replenish shelves‚ which led to frustrated retailers. Another concern Lego
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Substitutes The power of substitutes is moderate and it actually depends on the impact of substitute products. Smart phones do wide variety of functions so any product that specialize In one of those individual functions can also be termed as a substitute. Buyer power Buyers bargaining power is high because of the following reasons: * More choice of products and very limited differentiation of those products * Elastic demand- demand is highly sensitive to economy * Less asymmetric information-buyers
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Problem Identification 1. Demand on Edmunds Corrugated Parts and Services products are diminishing. 2. Remote location of its business. 3. High price of ram material. 4. Difficulty of replacing hardworking and loyal existing employee. II. Objectives 1. To keep the company of its current standing in the market in the future. 2. To develop new parts and products that will compete on new trends of shipping products. 3. To find other target market that will increase its market share. 4. To
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Determining Product Cost Managerial accountants must decide what types of managerial accounting information to provide to managers‚ how to measure such information‚ and when and to whom to communicate the information. For example‚ when making most strategic and operating decisions‚ managers typically rely on managerial accounting information that is prepared in whatever manner the managerial accountant believes provides the best analysis for the decision at hand. However‚ there is one major exception
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The question in the case is whether Kim should spend the fresh (2nd round) VC financing in Marketing and scale up the business or should focus the resources on fine tuning the existing product. Our recommendation is that the company should allocate around 70% of $4mn in marketing spend and 30% in product development and fine tuning the existing one. This recommendation is primarily based on the fact that the company should maximize the first mover advantage and develop barriers to entry by reducing
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Levels of a Product Consumers often think that a product is simply the physical item that he or she buys. In order to actively explore the nature of a product further‚ let’s consider it as three different products - the CORE product‚ the ACTUAL product‚ and finally the AUGMENTED product. This concept is known as the Three Levels of a Product. The CORE product is NOT the tangible physical product. You can’t touch it. That’s because the core product is the BENEFIT of the product that makes it
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are the Product Life Cycle (PLC) Stages used for? It helps to predict the profit levels and tailoring marketing programs according to the demand‚ your product development stage‚ current profits and level of investments and your changing customers’ needs. The Product Life Cycle (PLC) is one of the Products Portfolio Analysis and Planning Tools. What are the Product Life Cycle Stages? There are four different stages of any product from its development stage (prototype) till the product withdrawn
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Marketing New Product Assignment Case 1 Introduction: This case is largely based on Vanessa O ’Connell‚ "Food for Thought: How Campbell Saw a Breakthrough Menu Turn into Leftovers‚ the goals we need to reach is to gain the understanding of this company‚ why they can get the innovation and how they can manage it‚ also we can learn the experience of this company. The back ground of the company: In 1990‚ Campbell Soup was the undisputed
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