In your consultant business, you engage with a wide range of clients and organizations. Recently, you gained entry as a consultant with a pet food...

In your consultant business, you engage with a wide range of clients and organizations. Recently, you

gained entry as a consultant with a pet food company. The pet food client has a business objective of

expanding its product line beyond its current kidney- and shrimp-based cat foods. The company

developed two new products, one based on chicken livers and the other based on salmon. The company

conducted an experiment to compare the two new products with its existing ones, as well as a generic

beef-based product sold in a supermarket chain.

For the experiment, a sample of 50 cats from a population at a local animal shelter was selected. Ten cats

were randomly assigned to each of the five products being tested. Each of the cats was then presented

with 3 ounces of the selected food in a dish at feeding time. The researchers defined the variables to be

measured as the number of ounces of food that the cat consumed within a 10-minute time interval beginning when the filled dish was presented.

1. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference in the mean amount of food

eaten among the various products?

a. State the null hypothesis

b. State the alternative hypothesis

c. State the decision rule

d. Report the results and findings of your data analysis. Insert a copy of the output table in

your report to the client.

2. What should the pet company conclude? Fully describe the pet food company's options with

respect to the products.

3. If you were going to continue working with this client on this initiative, what additional

information would you need to complete  organizational diagnosis? How would this

organizational diagnosis influence your project improvement recommendations? Why is the

organizational diagnostic and assessment phase important in the recommendation for an

improvement process?