Ainsley Vannaman Needs to Make a Decision on Whether to Expand

Multiple Choice

Ainsley Vannaman needs to make a decision on whether to expand her business to a second location. She assembles a panel of experts including ten members from her chamber of commerce, her accountant, and three professors of strategic management at a local university. The group refined their opinions through a series of questionnaires, step by step, until they reached a consensus that Vannaman should expand to the second location. This decision is an example of __________.

A) scenarios
B) groupthink
C) extrapolation
D) the Delphi technique