Conrades and Sagan set plans to hunker down until bigger companies could replace the doomed dot-coms as customers and develop an addiction to the speed that Akamai provided.
Essentially, Rizzo says that Google just throws stuff out there, sees if it sticks and then only continues to develop and support those pieces of software which customers actually want to use.
Approximately 200 people from the telecom, technology and media industries, among others, showed up to gain insights into how companies can measure social media response, engage with their customers and develop social media strategies to fit specific business needs.
This can be done within organizations or with customers, partners and communities to develop new products, teach and adapt business transformation initiatives, or even partnerships to support projects in regional, environmental and civic responsibility.
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The industry is experiencing growing pressure on margins and a need for pricing flexibility, and must develop new services to retain customers.
"We don't think we're going to see the downside on that part of the business because our customers have to go ahead and develop these projects and try to recognize some cash flow out of the costs they incurred three or four years ago, " says David Lesar, Halliburton's president and chief operating officer.
"As a mobile software developer and middleware vendor, Resco customers are enabled to use our products to develop MonoTouch, and now Mono for Android applications for Android and Apple devices, " said Michal Sartoris, senior developer at Resco.
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If you build a culture which gives people time to reflect, develop and share expertise, stay close to customers, and learn from mistakes you will outdistance your competition and thrive in the face of huge market change.
"We need more people to sell or implement those products for customers, and we are eager to hire more engineers to develop more products quickly, " Bansal says.
The two companies were building the Itanium chip, an expensive, energy-intensive processor that cost billions to develop, gained few customers, offered middling performance and was shuttled to the sidelines.
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As the leadership attempted to implement this change they realized that, in order to develop a workforce that could listen and interface more effectively with customers, their management team needed to listen and interface more effectively with the workers on the frontline.
The goal is for the systems and processes that Fohn, Schulte, and DeFrank develop is to preserve the best of WhiteHat so that its existing customers do more business with the company even as it attracts new ones.
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Time used to develop personal relationships with colleagues and customers will never be time wasted.
First and foremost, in what Forrester has identified as the age of the consumer, MyAssist recognizes that their business depends on their ability to develop meaningful and lasting relationships with customers by helping solve their immediate problems.
More specifically, these start-up CEOs must hire talent, create a strong culture, build products that attract customers, pick a market to target, and develop a business model.
This is because technology has made it possible for exchanges elsewhere to develop competing contracts and offer them to customers worldwide, around the clock, with lower costs.
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Incubators such as Escape, a concept featuring early adopter technology largely available only outside the U.S. Or Studio D, which was meant to help Best Buy better understand female customers and develop learning labs and class curriculum that would bring them into stores, and keep them there.
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At the beginning, when they operate on Ramen noodles and fumes, start-ups employ the smallest possible staff and scramble to develop a version of their product that will get customers excited.
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In our journey to provide consumers with the most engaging devices and services we are looking for ways to develop closer connections with our customers.
Operators continue to analyze and seek a better understanding of factors that cause attrition, and the best way to develop long-term, sticky relationships with customers.
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On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating system.
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Instead, what is crucial is to analyse the data, not only to see the big picture, but also to develop a deep and localised understanding of some 180, 000 customers in 200 countries.
As a system supplier, we are perfectly positioned to develop and launch series production of solutions for partially automated systems for our customers by 2016.
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By linking that information with traditional data like employer and phone number, enterprises will have the data perspective necessary to develop deeper connections with customers.
Simplified user interfaces mean customers are able to develop an application within minutes using a broad range of tools and demonstration software, with minimal cost and effort.
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In the current economic climate, depositors are seeking to develop a relationship with a bank whose purpose is to service and support its customers, rather than one completely focused on its profit margin.
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If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, then you only need to do one thing: Invent, develop, and market a product or service that customers really need or want.
"Audi and T-Mobile worked closely to develop the new pricing plan based on extensive research and feedback from both dealers and customers, " said Anupam Malhotra, Senior Manager, Connected Vehicle, Audi of America.
Some things need time for the market to develop, others need technology advances, and others need a change in direction toward different customers.
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The company thinks the value for very fast response times on dynamically updated information is very broad, far beyond returning results to impatient retail customers, because it allows users such as business analysts, marketing and advertising staff to ask more questions and then develop and refine models.
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