Released today, it shows design activity (which serves as an early indicator of new upcoming construction) at two year low.

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However, we continued to experience high levels of design win activity across multiple product families and are confident that we are well positioned for the future.

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We continue to enjoy strong design win activity and market share gains, but each of those wins tends to bring in less revenue than during better times.

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While there's no doors or privacy factor involved, those who were previously choosing to take it to the sidewalks probably won't mind all that much, and designers say the open design discouraged loitering and criminal activity anyway.

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And from that we design the plants to be able to withstand that kind of activity.

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Inspiring startups or global corporations disrupt entire industries with their intensive use of IT, innovative business models, iterative design, and a powerful leveraging of data originated by user activity.

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To understand how this works, let us imagine that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops a perfectly fragmented and disintegrated Web TV-supply chain: Every activity from the new TV-concept development, to design, manufacturing, marketing, and so on can be performed by independent subcontractors.

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Buyers of Misfit's Shine wearable activity monitor, which borrows Apple's minimalist approach to design, have wanted to put this small disc, the size of a quarter, on their wrist, on a chain, around their ankles or even use it as a hairpin.

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We built the Shine with that design intent and made it incredibly easy for anyone to use for a wide range of activity tracking.

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High Resolution Management is the idea that the management processes and the design and execution of many different processes should change based on the far more detailed picture of business activity provided by big data.

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