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MBA 603 SPRING 2021: ASSIGNMENT EIGHT

Assignment Eightasks you to answer questions about new product forecasting from our class lecture and to develop a forecast for your team’s proposed market opportunity. Refer to the class Powerpoint Slides, posted articles, and Book. This assignment offers a total of 10 points.

Please pdf this assignment sheet and upload to Blackboard by the beginning of class on Monday, April 19.

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1. TRUE OR FALSE: Accuracy is the most important criterion and really the only criterion that should be used to evaluate new product forecasting efforts by a company [2 points]. True False

2. List the two types of scenario planning. [2 points]

3. Specify what the letters in the acronym ATAR represent. [2 points]

4. Develop an assumptions-based model for your team’s proposed market opportunity. This model should at least comprise four assumptions, and for purposes of this question, no more than six assumptions. List your assumption-based model elements below (list each assumption separately), give the value for each assumption, calculate a one-year unit forecast (likely case), and calculate a one-year revenue forecast (likely case). Show your work for each forecast calculation. [4 pts]

Assumption

Value (Likely Case)

One-Year Unit Forecast

One-Year Revenue Forecast

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