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Question
What is the primary disadvantage of employing a product specialization strategy?
a. The organization may be spread too thin.
b. The organization achieves neither marketing nor manufacturing synergies.
c. R&D-manufacturing has the difficulty of producing multiple new lines.
d. There are too many product substitutes over which a firm would not have control.
e. Gaining market distribution will be costly.
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a. market-product grid
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c. Plan-A-Gram
d. Gantt chart
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Figure 1.
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a. a market-product grid
b. a Gantt chart
c. a project schedule
d. a sales response function
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