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. multiple source product development.

C. distributed product development.

D. multitasking product development.

C, distributed product development

Explanation:

Distributed product development can simply be defined as the distribution of the different parts/components of a product to different firms. Distributed product development is usually done when the best of partners are being consulted over a product. Te other firms usually are the best in the production of the components of the product and as such might not be based in the home country of the product's parent company.

From the above question, it is seen that Donavan is speaking to different companies all of the world as regards his product's components. The companies are the best in what they do and he has to have each of them contribute their best ideas to his product.

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