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Product Design and Development MCQ

1. __________ pricing tactics lower the price of a product below the store's cost.

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Correct Answer: Loss leader

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2. The business analysis stage of a new-product development process _____.

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Correct Answer: Calculates preliminary figures for demand, cost, sales, and profitability

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3. What is the name of the document that outlines the desired outcomes and goals of the product?

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Correct Answer: Product Mission

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4. What does Mission resemble?

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Correct Answer: Product Innovation Charter

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5. Good product specs provide clear product goals by what means?

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Correct Answer: Objectives

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6. What are measured?

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Correct Answer: Metrics

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7. Metrics are what?

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Correct Answer: Things which are measured

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8. Instead of focusing on what features, what is the focus on when doing agile software development?

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Correct Answer: Outcomes and benefits

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9. Rather than focusing on features, what is the emphasis in Specifying for Outcomes and Benefits?

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Correct Answer: Benefits, Not Features

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10. What is the term for something spec'd without the consumer having to articulate or explicitly ask for it?

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Correct Answer: Implicit Requirement

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11. What does it provide more clarity than?

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Correct Answer: Listing what it should do

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12. What does "Itemizing what a product will not do" provide more clarity than?

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Correct Answer: Just listing what it should do

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13. What is another name that a brand can be called?

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Correct Answer: Our Competitors

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14. What should be the first word of any sentence describing the product?

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Correct Answer: Our

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15. What does the CBP state?

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Correct Answer: The benefits to the consumer

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16. What is the Elevator Pitch?

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Correct Answer: A very short summary detailing your product offering and its value proposition

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17. What is a good name for a very short summary detailing your product offering and its value proposition?

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Correct Answer: Elevator Pitch

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18. What is the purpose of differentiation?

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Correct Answer: What makes your product different than competitors or alternatives

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19. What makes your product different than competitors or alternatives?

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Correct Answer: Differentiation

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20. What should the product specs not list?

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Correct Answer: How

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21. What field is responsible for answering how questions about a product?

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Correct Answer: Product design/engineering group

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22. What is one job of the product design/engineering group?

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Correct Answer: To answer the HOW

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23. How many different ideas can be combined into a larger idea?

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Correct Answer: A number

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24. A large number of different ideas combined together into a larger insight is called what?

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Correct Answer: Synthesize

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25. The Innovation Charter can either be the same as or differ from what document?

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Correct Answer: Product spec

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26. What is a document that captures the "who what why when and how" of a product?

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Correct Answer: Product Innovation Charter

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27. What is another term for "need"?

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Correct Answer: Would Like to Have

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28. What type of information is being communicated?

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Correct Answer: Simple yet effective way of communicating whether a spec/feature/benefit is required or preferred

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29. What kind of group should write the product specification?

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Correct Answer: Cross-functional

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30. Who should write the product spec?

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Correct Answer: A cross-functional group

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31. What is a function of a company that contains an entire department?

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Correct Answer: Marketing

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32. What are examples of groups of people that a function can include?

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Correct Answer: Marketing function, the engineering function

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33. What is the name of the preliminary document that directs a product team on developing the product?

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Correct Answer: Product spec

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34. What does the product spec establish?

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Correct Answer: A "box"

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35. What statement indicates how your product/brand/company is different compared to competition?

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Correct Answer: Positioning Statement

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36. Who wrote about positioning?

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Correct Answer: Al Ries and Jack Trout

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37. What does the term "development funnel" describe?

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Correct Answer: The front-end of the development process

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38. What is the name of the front-end portion of the development process?

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Correct Answer: Development Funnel

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39. What do you think is the purpose of Idea Capture Systems?

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Correct Answer: Whatever system you have in place for capturing ideas

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40. What is the name of the system for capturing ideas?

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Correct Answer: Idea Capture System

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41. Than brainstorming what type of process is it?

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Correct Answer: Ideation

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42. What kind of process is Ideaation?

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Correct Answer: The process of coming up with ideas for a targeted prompt or within a specific scope

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43. What does the "Concept Screening" step in the development process do?

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Correct Answer: Determining which concepts should be pursued further down the development process

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44. What is the process of determining which concepts should be pursued further down the development process?

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Correct Answer: Concept Screening

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45. What is an example of a fleshed out concept?

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Correct Answer: Product feature

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46. What is a term used to describe the fleshed out idea that is the next step in the process?

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Correct Answer: Concept

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47. What is brainstorming good for?

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Correct Answer: First order ideas

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48. What type of storyboard is used to communicate how something will happen?

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Correct Answer: Drawing out an experience

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49. What does the opposite of Convergent Thinking do?

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Correct Answer: Creating options or brainstorming

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50. What term describes the practice of making choices between many options?

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Correct Answer: Convergent Thinking

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51. What does divergent thinking involve?

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Correct Answer: Making choices; identifying options or possible solutions

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52. What is the name of the good book called that talks about doing divergent thinking?

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Correct Answer: Change by Design

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53. What word is used synonymously with "come up with a solution"?

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Correct Answer: Brainstorming

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54. What is brainstorming is about?

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Correct Answer: Idea generation

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55. How might a company's opinion of the facts inside the building affect it's business decisions?

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Correct Answer: Only opinions

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56. What do opinions have in the Building?

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Correct Answer: Facts

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57. People often explain their behavior in a way that what?

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Correct Answer: Contradicts

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58. What is the process of really watching someone do something?

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Correct Answer: Observation

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59. What does empathy describe?

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Correct Answer: Putting yourself in another’s shoes

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60. What is the term used to describe putting yourself in another's shoes?

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Correct Answer: Empathy

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61. What do you do when you do Anthropology?

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Correct Answer: The study of people

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62. What is the study of people?

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Correct Answer: Anthropology

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63. Who is Tim Brown?

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Correct Answer: CEO of IDEO

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64. What is the name of Tim Brown's company?

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Correct Answer: IDEO

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65. What does competitor analysis involve?

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Correct Answer: Research focused on your competition

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66. What research should be focused on my competition's sales?

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Correct Answer: Competitor Analysis

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67. Who is the interviewer of a Contextual Enquiry interview?

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Correct Answer: Someone

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68. What is a type of observation method that involves a user being interviewed on the product after using it?

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Correct Answer: Contextual Enquiry

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69. What does a Group of Consumers do?

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Correct Answer: Gather feedback on something

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70. What grouping of people is used to gather feedback on something?

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Correct Answer: Group of potential consumers

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71. What are the steps of an information collection process?

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Correct Answer: Define problem or objectives > Develop research plan > Collect information > Analyze > Present Findings > Make Decision

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72. . Who wrote about the steps of a scientific research process?

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Correct Answer: Kotler and Keller

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73. What does the diagram look like when drawn?

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Correct Answer: A house

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74. The House of Quality is a method for determining if a product delivers on known what?

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Correct Answer: Consumer’s needs

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75. What is the name of the method of determining if a product delivers on known customer's needs?

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Correct Answer: House of Quality

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76. What is the object of a survey?

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Correct Answer: Insight and knowledge

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77. What is the objective of a survey?

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Correct Answer: Acquiring insight and knowledge

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78. What is used in market research?

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Correct Answer: Conjoint Analysis

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79. What type of research is the use of Conjoint Analysis?

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Correct Answer: Market research

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80. What type of characteristics were the VOC given in Japan?

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Correct Answer: Engineering

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81. What country was the FDD developed in?

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Correct Answer: Japan

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82. What type of feedback is more opinion-based and open-ended?

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Correct Answer: Qualitative Measures

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83. What is the purpose of market research?

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Correct Answer: Conducting research to better understand the market or a particular sub-group (segment) of the market

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84. What is the term for researching a particular subgroup within the market?

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Correct Answer: Market Research

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85. What does the word outcome mean when referring to a product?

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Correct Answer: Performance result

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86. What does the jobs to be done framework refer to products as?

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Correct Answer: Hired

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87. What is the name of the framework that products are hired to do?

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Correct Answer: Jobs to be done

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88. In what way could a need for Arthrotec be considered unarticulated?

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Correct Answer: A need that a consumer cannot articulate or explain

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89. What is a need that a consumer can articulate?

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Correct Answer: Articulated Need

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90. What is the name of the diagram containing the objective you are trying to accomplish, along with all the possible solutions you've thought of for solving it?

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Correct Answer: Opportunity-Solution Tree

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91. What type of interviews are used to develop personas?

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Correct Answer: User

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92. What is the process of determining what to build?

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Correct Answer: Discovery

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93. Who said that product market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market?

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Correct Answer: Andreessen

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94. Which entrepreneur first coined the term product-market fit?

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Correct Answer: Marc Andreessen

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95. What can a solution space address?

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Correct Answer: Problem space

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96. What is the name of the book that discusses the "good" way to solve a problem?

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Correct Answer: The Lean Product Playbook

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97. What is the creation and delivery of new customer value?

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Correct Answer: Innovation

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98. Innovation is the creation and delivery of new what?

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Correct Answer: Customer value

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99. What type of requirement is an implicit one?

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Correct Answer: Something the consumer expects

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100. What does a consumer expect without having to articulate or ask for it?

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Correct Answer: Implicit Requirement

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101. What is desire different than?

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Correct Answer: What a person needs

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102. What is something a person wants?

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Correct Answer: Desire

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103. Products can address needs and/or desires; you can get what and talk about how our desires are really needs?

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Correct Answer: Semantic

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104. What is another word for need?

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Correct Answer: Desire

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105. Expanding on the hierarchy of needs is a process that HBR mentions in what article?

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Correct Answer: The 30 Things Customers Really Value

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106. What expanding on the hierarchy of needs?

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Correct Answer: The 30 Things Customers Really Value

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107. What does "needfinding" mean?

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Correct Answer: The art of talking to consumers and discovering their needs

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108. How is the art of talking to consumers known?

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Correct Answer: Needfinding

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109. What is the term for talking to consumers to discover their needs?

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Correct Answer: Finding

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110. Consumer needs is a huge range of what?

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Correct Answer: Human needs

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