How ApplPoly Products got into the present situation?
In our textbook[1], it says to move quickly and also avoid expensive new-product failures, companies should follow an organized new-product development process: (1) idea generation, (2) screening, (3) idea evaluation, (4) development (of product and marketing mix), and (5) commercialization. The hypothesis to have marketers to discover product flaws early, and find the remedy to it, has proven unprofitable. This process requires much analysis of the idea before the company spends money to develop and market a product.
However, ApplPoly reversed the step (3) and step (4), so it came to the dilemma. In step (3), an idea is evaluated more carefully, and at this time an actual
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