MGMT 490 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
What happens when two or more products are put into R&D projects at the same time?
- Answers - Capacity and automation will stand idle for the first half of the year
Which product attributes are reported to the courier's segment analysis page? -
Answers - Age, MTBF, Price, and awareness
What are three important pieces of information you can find in the capstone courier? -
Answers - Customer buying patterns, product positioning, and financial records
How does automation affect R&D projects? - Answers - Speeds up The process which
means less money spent
What formula calculates customer demand for your product in a segment? - Answers -
Top product in segment score/sum of all scores
How does completing the situation analysis help you - Answers - Understand current
market conditions
What happens to a sensory's age when it is moved - Answers - It generally decreases
but it can increase as well
What is the cost of caring inventory - Answers - 12%
What does the little red flag symbol Mean - Answers - Additional information
How much do segment price Expectations change each round - Answers - Decrease
$.50
In which cell should you enter your worst case sales forecast? Your best case? -
Answers - Worst case = marketing sales forecast
Best case = production schedule cell
How does the marketing department need to coordinate with the production department
- Answers - Make sure manufacturing quantities are in line with forecast
What budget item influences customer awareness? How is awareness calculated -
Answers - Promotion. Last year's awareness-(33%* last year's awareness)
What measures are evaluated in the balance scorecard - Answers - Financial, internal
business process, customer, and learning and growth
, How does finance have to coordinate with all departments - Answers - Reviews
marketing and production decisions. Cross check marketing forecast and pricing
How much does each unit of new capacity cost? When do you have access to new
capacity that is purchased? What implications does this have for your sales projections?
- Answers - $10. a year to take into effect. It could either increase or decrease as seen
as write off's
What are the six basic strategies - Answers - Broad cost leader, broad differentiator,
niche cost later, niche differentiator, cost later with a product life cycle focus, and
differentiator with product life cycle focus
How many distinct market segments exist in the simulation? What are they - Answers -
Five. Additional, low, high, performance, and size
Capstone Courier - Answers - Extensive year-end report of the sensor industry. It
includes customer buying patterns, product positioning, public financial records and
other information that will help you get ahead
How much does your labor cost fall for each unit for animation? How much labor cost
reduction would result from an animation level of five? Of eight? - Answers - 10% per
each unit. At 5 = 40% decrease. 8 = 70% decrease
How frequently do market segments drift? Where do you find information about the drip
rate of each segment? - Answers - Take me to drift out different rates. Found in industry
conditions report
Situation analysis - Answers - Enable you to understand current market conditions and
how the industry will evolve in the next few years
In the simulation what characteristics are captured by the term positioning - Answers -
Size and performance
What is the brokerage fee for issuing new bonds? What do the first three digits in the
barn series number indicate? The last four? - Answers - 5% fee. The first three digits =
interest-rate. The last four digits = the year the bond is due
Proformas - Answers - Projections for the upcoming year
Which by her criteria change each year and which remain the same each year -
Answers - Missioning in price change every year. Age and MTBF stay the same
What is the penalty for taking an emergency loan - Answers - 7.5% penalty
Annual reports - Answers - Results for the previous year
What happens when two or more products are put into R&D projects at the same time?
- Answers - Capacity and automation will stand idle for the first half of the year
Which product attributes are reported to the courier's segment analysis page? -
Answers - Age, MTBF, Price, and awareness
What are three important pieces of information you can find in the capstone courier? -
Answers - Customer buying patterns, product positioning, and financial records
How does automation affect R&D projects? - Answers - Speeds up The process which
means less money spent
What formula calculates customer demand for your product in a segment? - Answers -
Top product in segment score/sum of all scores
How does completing the situation analysis help you - Answers - Understand current
market conditions
What happens to a sensory's age when it is moved - Answers - It generally decreases
but it can increase as well
What is the cost of caring inventory - Answers - 12%
What does the little red flag symbol Mean - Answers - Additional information
How much do segment price Expectations change each round - Answers - Decrease
$.50
In which cell should you enter your worst case sales forecast? Your best case? -
Answers - Worst case = marketing sales forecast
Best case = production schedule cell
How does the marketing department need to coordinate with the production department
- Answers - Make sure manufacturing quantities are in line with forecast
What budget item influences customer awareness? How is awareness calculated -
Answers - Promotion. Last year's awareness-(33%* last year's awareness)
What measures are evaluated in the balance scorecard - Answers - Financial, internal
business process, customer, and learning and growth
, How does finance have to coordinate with all departments - Answers - Reviews
marketing and production decisions. Cross check marketing forecast and pricing
How much does each unit of new capacity cost? When do you have access to new
capacity that is purchased? What implications does this have for your sales projections?
- Answers - $10. a year to take into effect. It could either increase or decrease as seen
as write off's
What are the six basic strategies - Answers - Broad cost leader, broad differentiator,
niche cost later, niche differentiator, cost later with a product life cycle focus, and
differentiator with product life cycle focus
How many distinct market segments exist in the simulation? What are they - Answers -
Five. Additional, low, high, performance, and size
Capstone Courier - Answers - Extensive year-end report of the sensor industry. It
includes customer buying patterns, product positioning, public financial records and
other information that will help you get ahead
How much does your labor cost fall for each unit for animation? How much labor cost
reduction would result from an animation level of five? Of eight? - Answers - 10% per
each unit. At 5 = 40% decrease. 8 = 70% decrease
How frequently do market segments drift? Where do you find information about the drip
rate of each segment? - Answers - Take me to drift out different rates. Found in industry
conditions report
Situation analysis - Answers - Enable you to understand current market conditions and
how the industry will evolve in the next few years
In the simulation what characteristics are captured by the term positioning - Answers -
Size and performance
What is the brokerage fee for issuing new bonds? What do the first three digits in the
barn series number indicate? The last four? - Answers - 5% fee. The first three digits =
interest-rate. The last four digits = the year the bond is due
Proformas - Answers - Projections for the upcoming year
Which by her criteria change each year and which remain the same each year -
Answers - Missioning in price change every year. Age and MTBF stay the same
What is the penalty for taking an emergency loan - Answers - 7.5% penalty
Annual reports - Answers - Results for the previous year
