Question 1

1. What is the primary purpose of the Concept Generation phase?

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To produce a range of potential solutions based on customer needs and target specifications.

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To conduct legally protected patent filings.

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To calculate the exact production cost of the final product.

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To finalize the marketing strategy for the product.

Question 2

2. Which tool is specifically mentioned as a requirement for students to use in this practicum?

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Autodesk Inventor

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Adobe Photoshop

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Python Programming

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Slack

Question 3

3. In the "black box" method of functional decomposition, what is the team’s goal?

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To expand the box into specific subfunctions that describe individual tasks.

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To hide the product's technology from competitors.

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To focus only on the external appearance of the product.

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To eliminate all customer needs from the design process.

Question 4

4. According to the module, "Lead Users" are valuable because they:

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Encounter specific needs months or years before the general market.

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Are professional consultants with university degrees.

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Represent the majority of current market buyers.

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Own the legal rights to existing patents.

Question 5

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the essential guidelines for an effective internal search (brainstorming)?

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Focus only on feasible ideas from the start.

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Suspend judgement.

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Generate a lot of ideas.

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Make plenty of sketches.

Question 6

6. The SCAMPER technique is used to innovate existing products. What does the letter "E" represent in this acronym?

Accepted Answer

Eliminate

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Evaluate

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Expand

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Engineer

Question 7

7. In the Concept Screening process, what do the symbols (+, 0, -) represent?

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Relative ratings (Better than, Equal to, Worse than) against a reference concept.

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The price of the product compared to the budget.

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The electrical charge of the product's components.

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The chronological order of concept development.

Question 8

8. What distinguishes Concept Scoring from Concept Screening?

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Scoring assigns weights to criteria for a more nuanced and objective comparison.

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Scoring is done before internal searches.

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Scoring uses relative ratings like (+, 0, -) while screening uses numbers.

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Scoring is only used for Apple products.

Question 9

9. When using the Concept Scoring matrix, a "4" in the ranking scale indicates that a concept is:

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The same as the reference.

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Better than the reference.

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Much worse than the reference.

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Much better than the reference.

Question 10

10. After ranking concepts in the selection phase, why might a team choose a concept that did NOT receive the highest numerical rank?

Accepted Answer

To consider qualitative factors like implementation feasibility and long-term potential.

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Because numerical rankings are always inaccurate.

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Because the highest-ranked concept is always too expensive to produce.

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To avoid having to perform high-fidelity prototyping.

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