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Accession Number:
AD0612187
Title:
DEMON, MARK II: AN EXTREMAL EQUATION APPROACH TO NEW PRODUCT MARKETING,
Corporate Author:
NORTHWESTERN UNIV EVANSTON ILL TECHNOLOGICAL INST
Report Date:
1964-12-01
Abstract:
Numerous alternatives are available in the kinds of studies which can be elected in the market research which should precede the introduction of a new product. This gives rise to a possible network interpretation and treatment by an associated chance-constrained programming characterization and analysis. The resulting model, called DEMON Decision Mapping Via Optimum GO-NO Networks is replaced by an approach based on extremal equations. A general analytic characterization is achieved and then replaced by more special ones. Means for affecting study decisions and interferences are discussed along with the sensitivity analyses that we associate with GO and NO preemptions, relative to profit and payback constraints. Payback in a constraint is distinguished from its use as a criterion for choice or objective, the latter being here oriented toward MEMP maximize expected maximum profit. A chart is provided for interpreting these and other aspects of policy which bear on the problems of marketing a new product and, by reference to this chart, conditions are described in which an increase in the variance of possible outcomes may forestall an otherwise negative decision as when, for instance, expected profits in a log-normal measure might otherwise be regarded as too low. Author
Pages:
0019
Contract Number:
Nonr122810
File Size:
0.00MB
