IBM satisfies consumers' needs for powerful, easy-to-use laptop computers by converting assorted software routines, hardware devices, and miscellaneous parts into personal computers. By doing this, IBM is creating
A) consumer demand.
B) market control.
C) technological dependence.
D) form utility.
E) production efficiency.
Question 2 - What kind of time does a person perceive as a one-dimensional straight line divided into standard units such as seconds, minutes, hours, and days?
Question 3 - What specific gas is internationally considered a top concern for air pollution?
A) Carbon monoxide
B) Nitrogen dioxide
C) Carbon dioxide
D) Greenhouse gas
E) Hydrogen monoxide
Question 4 - R&P Inc
R&P Inc is an emerging company that wants to focus on personal selling, sales promotion, and public relations activities. R&P's management understands that personal selling is about the personal communication aimed at customers, but they feel that determining more specifics about the products they sell will allow them to better achieve their goal. Another important route they would like to take is to learn more about the various types of sales promotion. Finally, management would like to focus more on publicity-based PR. By concentrating on these areas, the company believes that it will be able to successfully create a promotional campaign.
Refer to R&P Inc R&P management knows that ____ is the most effective and least expensive means of communicating product information to a large number of individuals and organizations.
A) advertising
B) personal selling
C) sales promotion
D) public relations
E) corporate promotion
Question 5 - The type of utility on which production and operations management focuses is ____ utility.
A) place
B) time
C) form
D) possession
E) need
Question 6 - Awareness of a business colleague's ________ traditions is essential for building a lasting relationship. Those traditions may dictate dietary restrictions, special observance holidays, and worship schedules.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Question 7 - What is the major source of human emissions of air pollution in the upper atmosphere?
A) Aircraft
B) Automobiles
C) Acid rain
D) Volcanoes
E) Factories