The more banks know about customers, the more they can tailor solutions to meet customer needs.
Is it because of any rational analysis of changing markets and shifting customer needs?
Enterprise social networking helps businesses become more collaborative, nimble, and responsive to customer needs.
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Low prices, a variety of products, and lots of delivery options also meet customer needs.
Growth happens when products meet customer needs, not the needs of internal focus groups.
"We try to be fair and listen to what the customer needs, " Mr. Smith said.
Continuous innovation focusing on customer needs is also an important driving force for Huawei's growth.
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To anticipate and serve customer needs, these nondescript people pay a lot of attention to other people.
Companies that sell products or services built on clearly-articulated customer needs are the exception, not the rule.
Had this company looked only within their industry, they might have never discovered those unmet customer needs.
Value Renewal occurs (rarely) when a company adapts to new technology, changing customer needs, and upstart competitors.
By the end, they cared less about customer needs and product quality and more about shareholder value.
At the same time, the driverless car will create enormously lucrative business opportunities to serve new customer needs.
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The reason is straightforward: Meeting customer needs is the core value for all successful private online customer communities.
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Since 1999 they have linked Huawei's switch development with marketing and sales, aiming to design for customer needs.
"The customer needs to know how many calls are responded to in an acceptable period of time, " he says.
It is also bridging online and offline shopping experiences to satisfy customer needs for immediacy, tangibility and casual discovery.
These capabilities, however, are less crucial for need seekers, whose strategy is to identify unmet customer needs and innovate to fill them.
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Zurich Financial achieved this by analyzing core customer needs and meeting them through the creation of a unique signature touchpoint.
They need to start personalizing the shopping experience and recognize that not every customer needs (or even wants) a price match.
Messages also can be sent to the DIAD about traffic jams on a driver's route or when a customer needs an immediate pickup.
Eventually, in the not too distant future, corporations will have to hire in order to stay competitive and deliver upon increased customer needs.
There are no formal budgets or projections for the year ahead, on the principle that customer needs, not product targets, should determine growth.
It has become a multi-billion company in less than 25 years because it has marketed itself as meeting customer needs and solving their problems.
To be successful at building that kind of relationship you have to think differently about why your customer needs you in the first place.
After an impressive string of successes, the company focus shifted away from meeting customer needs toward the internal goal of beating General Motors and maximizing growth.
They need to be on-site for the obvious cost and practicality reasons, but also sometimes for security needs (theirs and yours), customer needs, and even location needs.
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And while HP has, well, not done much of anything as regards research and development in a while, other brands have stepped in to fill customer needs.
Companies will begin to leverage this fire hose of data to design products that will better match customer needs which will provide an exponentially more valuable customer experience.
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With this, they can shift their business focus from the rear-view mirror to an over-the-horizon radar that looks ahead to accurately anticipate future customer needs before anyone else.
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