When Fisher-Price managers attempted to redesign its classic toy, the Chatter Telephone, they considered adding a noisemaker, wheels, and eyes to a basic plastic telephone, and thus they developed several

A. new-feature matrices.
B. new-product concepts.
C. product substitutes.
D. virtual prototypes.
E. product hypotheses.


Answer: B

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