Essay About S-Curves And Sales Increase

Back Bay Battery
The requirements you need to do……..PERFORMANCE• Describe your performanceo Explain the overall trend of your performance: did revenue and sales increase or decreaseduring the simulation?o Identify any the trends in performance. For example, say for three decisions you did notinvest in recharging batteries and your costs increased.• How did the need to meet specific short term constrain your willingness to innovate and invest inR&D?• What happened to your NiMH sales when you began to invest in R&D for the Ultracapacitorbattery?• How did these changes influence your investment in R&D for the Ultracapacitor battery?IV. PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT• Identify and discuss the challenges of spreading R&D investments across three very differentproducts.• There are three products in this simulation. Did the segmentation have on your investmentstrategy? If not, explain why?• When did you decide to invest product innovations versus product innovations?SUM 2016: Back Bay Battery Requirements2V. S-CurveThe most important aspect of managing a portfolio is being to forecast how each technology isproceeding along their S-curves and then to notice when the S-Curve for the two technologiesintersect and the existing technology begins to decrease in performance while the new technologydemonstrates its performance superiority over the• When managing the portfolio where you looking for the shift in the S-curve?o Explain• During the course of the simulation, what year did your realize that the old technology hadbecome inferior to the new technology?o What information led to this awareness.• Remember, there is a learning curve between investment and performance. Thus, there will be a