The winners in the rapidly changing world of manufacturing will be those firms that have mastered the agility needed to generate rapid and continuous customer-based innovation.
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RFID-based customer-loyalty card, Metro abandoned the scheme under pressure from privacy-rights groups.
Owners of upmarket brands, meanwhile, often prefer to associate with more expensive, American-based customer care.
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Like competing no-frills cards, Discover it strips away many routine service charges and guarantees live access to American-based customer support agents.
For example, when NCR needed to optimize product configurations across their ATM line, they implemented pattern-based analytics solutions to analyze customer-buying patterns.
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Greater balance between mass customer marketing and account-based marketing.
Sure, they pointed out the tricky setup (routers need to be powered on and off in the proper order), but all said that with the aid of telephone-based customer support, problems were solved .
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With the relaunch of Overdrive PC, Velocity Micro has the most appealing extreme performance desktop option on the market-one of the most powerful, benchmark crushing gaming PCs that money can buy, supported by Velocity Micro's US-based customer care.
Now that BA has realized that an increasing number of its customers are eschewing shop front staff and call centers for the ease of online booking, the airline is closing the shutters on 17 of its U.K. Travel Shops and a Belfast-based customer call center.
Urban Airship - Improve customer engagement with push notifications, location-based marketing, and analytics.
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Plus their analytics-supported approach also enabled Gemvara to track design favorites and buying patterns to keep honing what it offers and how, thus growing their customer base and per-customer sales while honing customer service, based on the knowledge of how customers want to be served.
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Certainly companies would not outsource customer data processing to China-based providers if there were a prohibition on having such data returned to them.
Both the family at home and the bureau customer can use simple Web-based software that helps them select, edit, arrange, and format their photo output.
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As Ann releases its Q4 fiscal 2012 earnings on March 8, we expect its strong performance to continue driven by good customer response to its fashion-based apparel, healthy direct-to-consumer growth and balanced pricing strategy.
Time Warner Cable is finally testing out customer response to its broadband usage-based pricing.
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Cloud-based communication, customer development, community building and financial applications help small businesses acquire and manage information quickly and strategically.
These critical connections and causalities are the key to managing big data and allowing companies to see a more comprehensive picture of their product and product variants based on actual customer-buying patterns.
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Gox bitcoin exchange and CoinLab to partner on U.S. customer business was brokered by Seattle-based CoinLab, it would not have been possible without a solid and willing financial institution in the United States.
National Grid said it would also be eligible to receive incentive-based earnings by delivering customer savings and enhanced system reliability.
These only work however, if a customer manufactures a moist, non-oil based product, (sodas, smoothies, yogurts etc.), as the dyes are water-soluble.
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Call it savoir faire or call it hustle, Landel's brand of attention to the customer's needs has made Paris-based Sodexho the world's largest provider of food services to corporate cafeterias, school canteens and hospital rooms.
OPTiM's Optimal Remote service, used by over 12 million, also helps Japan-based wireless providers remote operate customer phones to resolve IT issues.
Some new cloud-based solutions act as payment processors, as well as offering back-end customer relations management systems and the ability to accept mobile payments in the growing Internet economy.
The company used a performance-based point system to encourage good customer service and adroit massage skills.
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Instead it has championed the concept of the customer-centric organization and has provided many cloud-based tools to support it, including its flagship enterprise social network, Chatter.
This feature is smart-it personalizes the time for each customer based on their reading speed and is constantly updated as the reader's speed and habits change.
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This feature is smart - it personalizes the time for each customer based on their reading speed and is constantly updated as the reader's speed and habits change.
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Over the next month comes a course of 12 hours of Web-based training that includes more on customer interaction and a lot on products the employee will be selling.
GoPro CEO Woodman could not recall another instance where Foxconn, which makes products for the likes of Apple, Dell and Cisco, had backed an American-based company that was also a customer.
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