This customer-first philosophy has resonated with people buying HTC phones and this drives us to continue introducing new innovative smartphones like the HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z.
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Before its shift from a partnership to a public company more than a decade ago (and two years before Mr. Smith came aboard as an intern), Goldman might have embodied the customer-first ideal Mr. Smith so fancies.
The first customer-ready new Ford Expedition rolled off the assembly line at the Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Michigan, in March.
Nardelli has also toughened Chrysler's quality standards, making senior engineers responsible and hiring a "chief customer officer"--an industry first--to monitor quality assurance and be an advocate for the buyer.
"Tesco's exit from the US is a reminder for managers of the dangers of going blindly for scale and cost leaders, the wheels of which are difficult to reverse if you need to change course to becoming a retailer known for first-class customer experience, " Prof Bhalla said.
Social media is currently the best place to build your brand through marketing that is non-invasive and puts the customer first.
When the center opened in 1999, the first customer was a single-person startup, LAD Industries, which wanted to improve abdominal and lower-back training on workout machines.
Among the occupational hazards the collectors face are flashers--Schreck saw two during his first month on the job--as well as customer altercations and tollbooth robberies.
His first customer was Sina.com--the popular portal site was struggling to handle the stream of visitors crashing its servers during the Sydney Summer Olympic Games.
At both the manufacturer level and in retailing, success belongs to those businesses which curate with an intense eagle-eye that puts customer interests firmly in first place.
Starbucks chose a new chief executive following a comparatively poor year during which it reported its first-ever drop in customer transactions and saw its share price fall by 42%.
The first customer was Dan Stoicescu, a Romanian-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur.
Another provision in the bill would prohibit any company from sending a foreign national employee (on an H-1B or L-1) to work with a customer offsite without first obtaining permission (via a formal waiver process) from the U.S. Department of Labor (or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for an L-1).
But he dropped out to launch his first company, Bamboo Systems, which sold customer-management software to brokerages.
First, they shocked their value-oriented customer base with whopping, out-of-nowhere 60% price increase.
Social platforms can take the place of e-mail, allowing the first qualified person who sees a customer request to start responding.
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At the end of the second quarter, smartphones constituted 50 percent of Verizon Wireless' retail postpaid customer phone base, up from 47 percent at the end of first-quarter 2012.
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First and foremost, Japanese industry has a famous concern for customer-centered engineering--for making products that appeal to the needs and comfort of users.
First to identify the top-20 brands best at creating customer delight, and second, to see how brands rank in the categories in which they directly compete.
In the Local Boy Makes Good version, fresh-startup-company Calxeda (pronounced Cal-Zayda) has a perfect launch, showing up for the first time in the public eye hand in hand with marquee-customer HP.
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The moment of proto-market conception was when the first seller offered to trade with the first customer, and that offer was accepted.
When it comes to a cure, Miss Zuboff and Mr Maxmin see the answer partly in the structure of corporations, which they regard as too narcissistic, too stuck in old concepts of mass production, even too male-dominated (real men, it seems, won't let the customer come first).
First, the debt-collection business has begun to merge with the bigger customer-service call-centre industry.
First, the Web tools allow him to save money and time by spreading customer-support duties among all 30 employees.
The first half of 2013 will be a time when self-assessed delivery, customer and consumer communication and angel experience in quality control and supply chain operations will become key topics.
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In a previous article, I looked at marketing innovators who are creating engaging brand experiences putting into practice the first of four marketing principles that together build the kind of long-term customer loyalty that has become increasingly hard to achieve.
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First we were over-buying merchandise, and we had to figure out our customer.
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