The production head at the canned juice unit of True Candy Inc. would frequently stay back after office hours and experiment with new organic hard candy flavors even though this was part of the new product development team's job. As a result of these experiments, he came up with two new flavors of organic hard candy, raspberry-apricot, and strawberry-apple. After rigorous test marketing, which proved that the market would accept the new candy, the product variants were successfully launched. Which of the following strategies does this scenario best illustrate?
a. Unrealized strategy
b. Emergent strategy
c. Tactical strategy
d. Intended strategy

B. Emergent strategy

Explanation:

The scenario illustrate emergent strategy.

Emergent strategy: It can also be called "realized strategy". It refers to the pattern of action developed over time by a firm in the presence of absence of specific mission and goals. It implies that an organization is learning what works in practice.

Emergent strategy can be defined as a set of actions, or behavior, consistent over time that was not intended. It is a strategy that develops when an organization takes a series of actions that becomes a consistent pattern of behavior with time.

Emergent strategy involves strategic and tactical changes which responds to events as they arises.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

it's actually a very difficult task, due to not many people can make 2 million dollars in 2 years. besides that, to the not-so-realistic ideas, you can create a business. it could be practically anything, but make it into a business that isn't that known yet, you get me? also, lets not forget about stock market. that's where all the good stuff happens. use investments at the beginning and begin to raise up your business or whatever you're going to do. as this is a very non-realistic idea, it's still worth the shot!