Company D’s management did not realize that we were expected to achieve all investor expectations on a weekly basis and a portion …show more content…
First, we made significant changes to our UAV drone design to improve our performance and quality (P/Q) rating to differentiate our drones from the competition and support our strategy of targeting consumers who require very high quality. Second, we made some minor changes to our AC camera design to keep our camera competitive and support our middle of the market strategy Third, we changed any AC camera marketing component (i.e., average wholesale pricing, retailor support budget, advertising budget, website displays/info., sales promotions, or warranty periods) on all four markets to bring them up to the industry average for each of these categories. Forth, we changed several of the UAV drone marketing components in all four markets to leverage our superior drone product to help us overcome our operating losses in year six. Some examples are (1) we increased our drone price above the industrial average (based on the fact that our team has the highest P/Q rating in all four markets and our strategy to target consumers who desire very performance and quality and are willing to pay more for these characteristics), (2) we adjusted the discount offered to third party online retailers, website product displays/info., search engine advertising, and retailer recruitment/support budget to the industry average or higher to support our strategy, and (4) increased the warranty periods in all four markets to 1 year to support are another reason to pay our higher prices.