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1. External sources refer to sources outside the company such as customers, competitors, distributors, suppliers, and outside design firms.
2. The R-W-W screening framework includes three questions: Is it real? Can we win? Is it worth doing?
3. Business analysis involves a review of the sales, costs, and profit projections to find out whether they satisfy the company objectives.
4. The types of test markets include standard, controlled, and simulated.
5. Simulated test markets are less expensive, faster, and restrict access by competitors.
6. Firms test the market when there is a new product with a large investment or uncertainty about a product or a marketing program.
7. Fads are temporary periods of unusually high sales driven by consumer enthusiasm and immediate or product brand popularity.
8. The three Maturity Stage Modifying Strategies are market modifying, product modifying, and marketing mix modifying.
9. Additional product and service considerations include determining what products and services to introduce in which countries, standardization versus customization, packaging and labeling, customs, values, laws.
10. The major stages in new-product development include idea generation, concept development and testing, marketing strategy development, business analysis, product development, test marketing, and commercialization.

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