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Dave's Doughnuts (Scenario)
Dave Glazer is the owner of Dave's Doughnuts, a five-store chain of doughnut shops located in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. At weekly management meetings, Dave asks each of the five store managers to report on local trends and new customer requests.
-Occasionally, Dave will purchase a popular new doughnut from a competitor and send it to a food laboratory in Vancouver for analysis. The lab provides a breakdown of the ingredients so Dave can learn the competitor's secrets. Dave is engaging in which process?
A) process reengineering
B) regression analysis
C) product deconstruction
D) qualitative forecasting
E) reverse engineering

Question

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Dave is engaging in reverse engineering, where he purchases a competitor's product and analyzes its ingredients to learn their secrets. This allows him to replicate or improve upon their product for his own business.

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