Sales Forecasting and Marketing Metrics Quiz

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What is the key metric used to measure the effectiveness of marketing strategies and to predict future sales?

  • Product protocol
  • Diffusion of innovation
  • Sales forecasting
  • Purchase intention (correct)

Which process do managers follow to reduce dependence on poor forecasting?

  • Improve current financial forecasting methods
  • Use different methods of financial analysis on new products
  • Commit to a strategy of low-cost development and marketing
  • Approve situations, not numbers (correct)

What refers to the process by which an innovation is spread within a market over time and over categories of adopters?

  • Quality function deployment
  • Voice of the customer
  • Diffusion of innovation (correct)
  • Data quality

What helps businesses understand their customers' expectations, preferences, and dislikes?

<p>Voice of the customer (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the accuracy of sales forecasts dependent on to make predictions?

<p>Data quality (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What refers to the set of guidelines, procedures, and best practices followed during the product development process?

<p>Product protocol (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the House of Quality protocol?

<p>To specify what each department will deliver to the final product that the customers buys (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the term 'Design' refer to?

<p>The synthesis of technology and human needs turning into manufacturable products (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of colocation?

<p>To put various individuals or functional areas in close proximity (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the final step of acceptance testing?

<p>Gamma testing (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does benefit segmentation involve?

<p>Identifying and categorizing market segments based on specific benefits that customers seek in a product (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of an industrial designer?

<p>Visualizing a solution to a problem (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is projectization related to?

<p>Commitment of company personnel to new product projects (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Virtual team' refers to a group of individuals who are:

<p>Linked electronically to each other (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does 'testing' represent in product development?

<p>Essential part of developing a quality product (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is product architecture related to?

<p>Overall layout and structure of the parts, subsystems, and interfaces of a product (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the first stage of the launch cycle?

<p>Testing the product with potential users (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the process where businesses evaluate the potential success of a product or service in the marketplace before a full-scale launch?

<p>Testing the product with potential users (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What refers to the information and ideas gathered from tests that help figure out what a product does well and what it could do better?

<p>Testing feedback (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Give at least 3 process that managers do to reduce dependence on poor forecasting.

<p>Implementing customer feedback, analyzing market trends, and refining sales strategies (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the key metric used to measure the effectiveness of marketing strategies and to predict future sales?

<p>Forecast accuracy (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is projectization related to?

<p>Tracking actual variables and selecting trigger points (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the process by which an innovation is spread within a market over time and over categories of adopters?

<p>Diffusion of innovation (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the final step of acceptance testing?

<p>Gamma testing (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What helps businesses understand their customers' expectations, preferences, and dislikes?

<p>Benefit segmentation (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What refers to the set of guidelines, procedures, and best practices followed during the product development process?

<p>Product architecture (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the key metric used to measure the effectiveness of marketing strategies and to predict future sales?

<p>Purchase intention (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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