Describe the ways in which database technologies could be used by a toy manufacturer to achieve product differentiation
What will be an ideal response?
Product databases could be made available to customers for greater convenience and ordering online. Databases could be used to track customer preferences and to help anticipate customer desires. Sales databases could also help clients such as toy stores anticipate when they would need to re-supply, providing an additional service. Data mining, Web mining, and sentiment analysis of big data could help anticipate trends in sales or other factors to help determine new services and products to sell to clients.
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a. She allows her employees to be more self-directed. b. She relies most on monetary incentives to get good work from her employees. c. She will enforce strict productivity goals. d. She doubts the creative potential of her individual employees.
Autonomous maintenance occurs when:
A) employees are empowered to observe, check, adjust, clean, and notify. B) a remote computer system signals the need for breakdown maintenance. C) a remote computer system signals the need for preventative maintenance. D) employees perform their own breakdown maintenance. E) none of the above
If a corporation has an average tax rate of 40 percent, the approximate, annual, after-tax cost of debt for a 15-year, 12 percent, $1,000 par value bond, selling at $950 is ________
A) 10 percent B) 10.6 percent C) 7.7 percent D) 6.0 percent
Dalrymple Inc. is considering production of a new product. In evaluating whether to go ahead with the project, which of the following items should NOT be explicitly considered when cash flows are estimated?
A. The company will produce the new product in a vacant building that was used to produce another product until last year. The building could be sold, leased to another company, or used in the future to produce another of the firm's products. B. The project will utilize some equipment the company currently owns but is not now using. A used equipment dealer has offered to buy the equipment. C. The company has spent and expensed for tax purposes $3 million on research related to the new product. These funds cannot be recovered, but the research may benefit other projects that might be proposed in the future. D. The new product will cut into sales of some of the firm's other products. E. If the project is accepted, the company must invest an additional $2 million in net operating working capital. However, all of these funds will be recovered at the end of the project's life.