What should you do in response to this opportunity

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Your organization has been offered an opportunity to supply a complex new engine for a recreational vehicle. Your current capacity is nearing its limits.

To take on this new product, you might have to add workers and/or increase investment in new equipment as well as possibly outsource some of the work to a new supplier.

Currently, you are in the midst of a major productivity improvement effort whose benefits are not yet discernible. You are concerned about maintaining your overall reputation, given the time pressures associated with the project and the manufacturing complexity of the new engine.

What should you do in response to this opportunity?

Think broadly but remember that you will need to compress your ideas into a onepage diagram. Do not include downstream decisions or random events that will have little or no impact on the decisions at hand.

However, make sure to include those decisions or random events that could have significant impact on the starting point for the current key decision regarding whether or not to supply the new engine.

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