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5. The Gorman Manufacturing Company decides to manufacture a component part at its Milan, Michigan plant or purchase the component part from a supplier. The resulting profit is dependent upon the demand of the product. The following payoff table shows the projected profit (in thousands of dollars) State of Nature Low Demand Mediumm Demand High Demand Decision Alternative Manufacture, d1 -20 40 100 Purchase, d2 10 45 70 The state probabilities are as follows: P(s3) 0.30 P(%) 0.35, P(82)-0.35, and...
SYNOPSIS The product manager for coffee development at Kraft Canada must decide whether to introduce the company's new line of single-serve coffee pods or to await results from the product's launch in the United States. Key strategic decisions include choosing the target market to focus on and determining the value proposition to emphasize. Important questions are also raised in regard to how the new product should be branded, the flavors to offer, whether Kraft should use traditional distribution channels or...