Choose one of your favorite brands. in your initial discussion post, explain what about the brand makes it compelling to you. how does the company use marketing to communicate the brand? identify at least one way that the company could improve its brand communications. what should the company consider to avoid unethical marketing? how could unethical marketing affect its brand? in your responses to classmates, compare the brand that you chose with the brands that your classmates chose. how are they similar? could the marketing professionals for the person, place, or thing learn from one another’s strategies or issues with brand identity?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1