Are the stages of product life cycle more important for a business to focus on the introduction stage or the growth stage of a product? Why?

Product life cycle is important for a business to focus on the introduction stage then the growth stage because the products to gain distribution as the product is initially new in the market. The quality of product is not assured and the price of the product will also determine as low or high.

Explanation:

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.