[weedwhacker] Marcus is an avid plant lover with the biggest…

[weedwhacker] Marcus is an avid plant lover with the biggest “green thumb” you’ll ever see. He needs to purchase a weedwhacker to get his backyard ready for the summer before he can plant anything. He first goes online to read reviews of different weedwhackers. Then he thinks of all the ways he would use one and collects information from different stores about the features of different brands and tries them out for feel. Then he puts all this together to make his choice and determines where to buy it. Which of the following decision making concepts is most relevant to Marcus’ approach to his decision?

[janitors] Proctor & Gamble would like to better anticipate…

[janitors] Proctor & Gamble would like to better anticipate consumer cleaning needs. To do this, they observed janitors in a variety of organizational settings like schools, offices, and gyms. They watched how they cleaned, how they took breaks, what tools they used, and many other sorts of aspects of their jobs. What type of exploratory research is P&G conducting?