The best PMs are certainly product-obsessed, examining coffee mugs at meetings and wondering out loud how to design a more better-designed coffee cup or carefully dis-assembling a new hand-held video-game to see how it works.
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Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.
Hal Rosen, a manager of research at Hitachi, says he's impressed by the researchers' ability to shrink so much storage into such a small space, but skeptical that a self-assembling method could create larger-scale disks.
With Anthony playing out of his normal position as a power forward, the Knicks have surrounded him with more shooters and built the league's most dangerous 3-point offense while also assembling a top-10 defense.
Like others in the industry, the company can also serve as a so-called systems integrator, assembling full video-surveillance setups for customers.
The fix, according to a team at MIT, is self-assembling (and therefore self-repairing) solar cells made up of a synthetic molecular soup containing phospholipids that, when mixed with a solution, attach themselves to a series of carbon nanotubes for alignment.
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Schonfeld claims he fulfilled his end of the deal--assembling executives to run the channel, designing a programming plan, hustling up investors--"only to have her freeze him out, " the lawsuit says.
He has been assembling a low-maintenance equity portfolio that any prospective pensioner would envy.
With five months remaining until the general election, Wisconsin political parties have a significant head-start on assembling their campaign machinery.
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They are assembling a powerful-looking Twenty20 squad next summer, with Australian great Adam Gilchrist signed up amid hopes that Makhaya Ntini and Yuvraj Singh will also join.
Extell acquired a 99-year ground lease on the site in August 2011 and is assembling air rights for the 725, 000-square-foot building from a nearby church and from the city.
He has a startling record of assembling hair-thin majorities for ticklish pieces of legislation, such as on Medicare prescription-drug benefit in 2003.
Assembling such a finely-matched selection of natural pearls of this size and quality is rare and likely took decades, the auction house said.
Derry are in the process of assembling a largely Maiden City-based squad for their League of Ireland First Division challenge this year and a deal may suit both parties.
With five children, 15 grandchildren (one a nursing student at Marian, despite having four children of her own) and 26 great-grandchildren assembling for the big event, Zedan was preparing a banquet.
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The MakiBox attempts to simplify 3-D printing for a more consumer-friendly experience, by lowering the price and reducing the complexity of assembling the devices and minting objects.
Moreover, he aims to promote a self-sustaining bicycle economy with regional operations assembling the bikes and area mechanics trained to repair them.
It led to the replacement of the studio system with ad-hoc assembling of creative teams for a movie project.
The Russian businessman also has been accused of assembling a fleet of cargo planes to traffic military-grade weapons to conflict zones around the world since the 1990s.
Assembling this dataset has been a major undertaking by sea-going marine carbon scientists from across the world for the last four years.
Pre-assembling mounting gear with solar panels at a factory rather than at the job site, as is the typical practice, also will save money, he added.
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Assembling HEX has cost the proverbial arm and a leg -- "tens of thousands of dollars, " says Haygood -- and is controlled remotely using a Zigbee USB dongle attached to his laptop.
Still just a two man team, Larson and Forman have already pre-sold 600 units and now spend much of their time hand-assembling the boards to catch up with a mounting backlog of orders.
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Soon after assembling his new gang of direct reports--a mere 13, compared with 28 for Rollins--Dell decided it was time to hear from the public, knowing full well that he would get an earful.
Belcher's colleague Paula Hammond, an expert in making highly ordered, self-assembling polymers and other materials, created a pattern of tiny posts, onto which the researchers deposited several layers of polymers that act as the battery's electrolyte.
Tesla technology hinges on assembling thousands of top-notch lithium-ion cells into a liquid-cooled battery pack.
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Important roles for Europe include assembling the rover on its side of the Atlantic and using a British-designed autonomous navigation system when the vehicle is on Mars.
But plaintiffs, led by lawyer David Frederick, said federal court is the appropriate venue for a case accusing the NFL of negligence and fraud, including assembling a "sham committee" in the 1990s to address the head-injury problem and knowingly hiding information from its players on the risks of brain damage from playing football allegations that the NFL flatly denies.
"This will enable us to have the biggest assembling plant in the world to assemble various products - over one million within a day, " he said.
While some backgrounds and personality traits can predispose certain lucky people, a global mindset needs to be constantly developed through intentional study, first-hand experience, and assembling networks of friends and contacts in different parts of the world.
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