In the best of all scenarios, Jobs would hire a competent CEO and focus on product development, but his ego would soon lead him to undermine his replacement.
Ultimately you may find yourself as the type that only wants to start firms from the early stages, and then either just focus on the product development or start on the next market changing idea.
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First, far too many entrepreneurs focus too much on product development without thinking about building a brand.
Evangelist teachers help the company keep sales overhead low and focus the bulk of their resources on product development.
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Over the last decade, Heinz has undergone significant restructuring shedding its less profitable non-core businesses with greater resource focus on core products and brands, product development and marketing.
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Smith said that because Facebook users in the rest of the world are accessing Facebook via smartphones, Facebook has also revamped its product development efforts to focus on mobile.
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In terms of performance, the company was leapfrogged by competitors after EMC decided 18 months ago to cancel an in-development interim product to focus all of its efforts on DMX.
Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.
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Uses could range from manufacturers engaging focus groups in a much more hands-on way at an early stage of product development to mass customization or individual use of the machines.
But it would be foolish to underestimate the ability of the world's biggest carmaker to put its house in order: it still has the most efficient system for product development and manufacturing, even if it must focus for the moment on quality control.
The other critical item here is to involve customers in their natural environment, where they consume your service or use your product (not depending on focus groups, which are artificial and subject to affect contagion) into your development process as early as possible.
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It also will serve as a virtual product development center, where female technologists can build on the ideas generated from the IWT's focus groups.
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