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Many services-marketing experts suggest that creating and delivering new services is much more difficult than creating new tangible products and new services differ from product innovations in several important ways.Which of the following best illustrates these differences?


A) for labour-intensive, interactive services, the actual providers (the service delivery staff) are part of the customer experience and thus are part of the innovation
B) most service companies focus on creating only incremental improvements
C) most service companies focus on continuous innovation
D) the new-service development process is often easy for the service customer to observe

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Breyers introduced for sale a new line of ice cream flavours in elegant black containers.This was done on a limited scale to determine consumer reactions before national distribution of the product.Breyers' new product was in the _____ stage of the new-product process.


A) commercialization
B) screening and evaluation
C) business analysis
D) market testing

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Which of the following is the best example of a nondurable good?


A) automobile
B) health care
C) hair cut
D) gasoline

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a purchase of industrial goods?


A) Ford buying paint for its automobiles
B) A printing company buying paper
C) An accounting firm buying a new computer system
D) A daycare buying diapers

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Prego recently introduced a Pasta Bake Sauce,which was made so that it was not necessary to pre-cook the pasta before blending pasta,sauce,meat,and cheese in a casserole.Legally,this product would only be considered new:


A) for the first twelve months that it was regularly available.
B) until a competitor had issued a similar product targeted to the same market.
C) as long it retained these exact product characteristics.
D) until every member of its target audience was aware of its existence.

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A company that manufactures door hinges used by GM in its car doors gets increased orders from GM because more consumers are demanding GM vehicles.This illustrates ________ for this __________.


A) derived demand; prestige good
B) primary demand; unsought good
C) secondary demand; shopping good
D) derived demand; production good

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Fortune Brands offers many product lines,including sporting equipment (Titleist golf balls) and plumbing products (Moen faucets) .Together,these product lines are referred to as a(n) :


A) product class.
B) product mix.
C) product category.
D) marketing mix.

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Industry Canada considers a product new only:


A) for a period of six months.
B) for a period of twelve months.
C) until a similar product is introduced by a competitor.
D) until a newer version of the same product is produce

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The Build-A-Bear Workshop in West Edmonton Mall sells custom made teddy bears designed to be given as gifts for almost every occasion imaginable.For the Build-A-Bear Workshop,teddy bears are an example of a:


A) product class.
B) product mix.
C) product line.
D) marketing mix.

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A supplements company has a strategy to minimize the number of products they have to ensure they can best service all of their existing products.In doing so,their corporate goal is to have no more than five _________.


A) distinct stock sizes
B) universal product codes
C) stock-keeping units
D) order quantity codes

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Shopping goods are items:


A) such as a Rolex watch that a consumer makes a special effort to search out and buy.
B) for which the consumer compares several alternatives on criteria, such as price, quality, or style.
C) used to assist in producing other goods and services.
D) the consumer purchases frequently and with a minimum of shopping effort.

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Consumer goods are products purchased by the ultimate consumer,whereas _____ are products used in the production of other products for ultimate consumers.


A) convenience goods
B) shopping goods
C) business goods
D) specialty goods

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IBM's ViaVoice speech recognition software,which enabled users to speak into a computer and have the computer translate their speech to the computer screen meant that people had to learn totally new behaviours to produce word processed documents.This is an example of:


A) continuous innovation.
B) dynamically continuous innovation.
C) dramatically continuous innovation.
D) discontinuous innovation.

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Within each product line,a specific product as noted by a unique brand,size,or price is referred to as the ____________.


A) product item
B) universal product code
C) stock-keeping unit
D) order quantity code

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Which support good is likely to be purchased using the straight rebuy decision sequence?


A) installations
B) accessory equipment
C) supplies
D) services

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Many services-marketing experts suggest that creating and delivering new services is much more difficult than creating new tangible products and new services differ from product innovations in several important ways.Which of the following best illustrates these differences?


A) many services require the physical presence of the customer, which demands local decentralized production of the service
B) most service companies focus on creating only incremental improvements
C) most service companies focus on continuous innovation
D) the new-service development process is often easy for the service customer to observe

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In a presentation to Senior Management,you show a weighted point system to a number of ideas a cross-functional team generated.At what stage is this presentation most likely to occur?


A) idea generation
B) screening and evaluation
C) business analysis
D) development

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The Build-A-Bear Workshop in West Edmonton Mall sells custom made Teddy bears designed to be given as gifts for almost every occasion imaginable.The Beary Romantic Curly Teddy is one bear it designed for people to give to each other on Valentine's Day.The Beary Romantic Curly Teddy is an example of a:


A) product item.
B) product type.
C) product class.
D) brand item.

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Janine recently went gluten free and is purchasing breakfast cereals for the first time.Which statement below best describes her experience?


A) she will make a special effort to seek out and buy.
B) she will likely compare several alternatives on several criteria.
C) she will not have success.
D) she will make purchases frequently and with a minimum of shopping effort.

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Use of a tool such as 'Six Sigma' would most commonly be found in which stage of the new-product process?


A) idea generation
B) distinctive competency
C) new-product strategy development
D) business mission

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