Donavan Spent the Day Talking with a Packaging Company in Guam

Donavan spent the day talking with a packaging company in Guam, a lighting specialist in Japan, a touchpad expert in the U.S., a prototype design firm in Malaysia, as well as a shipping firm in China. Each of these firms provided expertise in the development of his company's latest product, a back-lighted eReader. The strategy that Donavan's firm used to develop its latest product is

A) singular source product development.
B) distributed product development.
C) multiple source product development.
D) multitasking product development.