The Thomas Cook travel agency has experienced financial setbacks due to the Iraq war, the SARS epidemic, and unusually hot weather in Europe. A situational analysis would conclude that its setbacks were due to:

A. threats in its external environment
B. opportunities in its environmental environment
C. weaknesses in its external environment
D. the absence of strengths in its internal environment
E. weaknesses in its internal environment

Aeuropean aircraft producer has spent 15 years in developing a new aircraft that would potential threaten long-lasting boeing's dominance (monopoly) in the same class of aircrafts. the new european aircraft gets high marks on all performance measures except noise. because of the noise, the european producers management is concerned that the us government may impose restrictions which would forbid their aircraft to land in some of the american airports. without restrictions the estimated (present discounted) profit would be 125 million usd. with the restrictions the profit would only be 25 million usd. the chances of both outcomes are estimated to be 50-50. management must decide now whether to the cost of redesign program problem and a 60% chance it will fail. should the european aircraft producer start the noise redesign program if they do not have any redesign parts of the aircraft to solve the noise problem. is 25 million usd. there is a 40% chance that redesign will solve the noise additional information than mentioned above? draw the decision tree, indicate probabilities and outcomes of the events * imagine that the company could find out in advance the outcome of the u.s. government's e find the expected value of perfect information about the u.s. government's decision. decision. draw a new decision tree, indicate probabilities and outcomes of the events.

While discussing their marketing campaign for a new product, the members of the cross-functional team responsible for carver inc. realized that a couple of changes relating to their prior plan would be beneficial. the offer of a franchising that had earlier been brushed off by the company head was discussed thoroughly and it was decided that it would be implemented on a trial basis initially, and on full scale if found to work well. from the information provided, it can be concluded that this cross-functional team has a high degree of a) conformity b) demography c) uncertainty d) reflexivity e) diversity

Sales of quilt covers at bud banis's discount department store in carbondale over the past year are shown below. management prepared a forecast using a combination of exponential smoothing and its collective judgment for the 4 months (march, april, may, and june):