The company has received numerous accolades and industry awards for its outstanding products that are renowned for their easy-to-use features and high-quality, elegant design, and providing exceptional value to consumers.
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By making homemade ice cream and cookies and naming the combinations after architects, we believed that we could educate the public about design and bring value back to the discipline.
So I suspect that regardless of whether various folks at Facebook actually intend to design or sell their own branded smartphone, the ultimate value for Facebook to undertake such an effort is not the phone itself.
Some firms have given up manufacturing and turned to adding value through design and research and development.
The company, which provides services related to the design and testing of semiconductors, carries a price-to-book value multiple of 1.1, low relative to a five-year average of 1.5.
While originally developed primarily as a design exercise, in my experience contextual design also adds immensely to development of the marketing value proposition.
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The design of a product that gives full value to the consumer in an emerging market and serves his needs requires a different thought process altogether.
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The Korean carmakers, Hyundai and Kia, are also gaining ground in the U.S., up 0.4 points and 0.2 points, respectively, as they have improved both the quality and design of their vehicles while continuing to stress great value.
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But as every business grasps the value of good design, its ability to differentiate diminishes.
Listening to customers and acting on their needs should shape every aspect of a company, from the types of people that are hired, to internal and external communications, design processes, value definition, and how decisions are made.
These components of value had little to do with superior design or driving characteristics.
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If we design a system in which firms are expected to maximise shareholder value and CEOs are stimulated to take risks, some of the investments are going to go wrong.
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Consumers throughout the world depend on the RCA brand to provide products and services that feature the latest technology and design, are easy to use, and deliver the highest value and longevity.
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These two changes would give consumers a greater choice of health plans than the one-sized design that Obamacare allows, and would encourage people to shop for value.
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"The VIZIO TV and audio holiday line-up provides access to leading edge innovations and modern design at an unbeatable total value, " said Matt McRae, VIZIO Chief Technology Officer.
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As Evans, Burnett and others continue to develop the field of design into something of far greater value than aesthetics, the creative commitment and creative confidence of a good designer already has much to teach an aspiring manager or even a midcareer person contemplating a whole new life.
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After all, they have been involved in the design and outcome of the trials, and they can speak to its value and potential in treating this disease.
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He says all this has discouraged competitive bidding, and has failed to make use of the design team's extensive experience in ensuring value for money.
Global design firm Woods Bagot also understands the value of business-style social tools to facilitate knowledge management.
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Adding value to any space, the understated elegance of the CINEMA SCREEN Design minimizes visual distractions with an extremely narrow bezel, providing a captivating viewing experience with optimal comfort.
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The payment scheme also allowed him to design the clinic around the things that sick, expensive patients most need and value, rather than the ones that pay the best.
So, I hope you can understand my passion as a form of disappointment with the business community to abandon repeated failures and adopt more reliable processes, such as User-Centered Design or Value Innovations.
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As MySpace contributes a mere 2% to our estimated stock value for News Corp, the upside impact from a site re-design is minimal.
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Design thinking can give companies good downstream advantage, which is why we increasingly see producers of commodities trying to add value by getting closer to the customer.
Perhaps it has more to do with engineering and design excellence, with the user experience, with the coolness factor, with the perceived value, and with the desire to support a better future for America that we hope to pass on to our children and to their children.
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