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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With its high-quality design and great value, the Samsung N150 offers users everything they need in a portable netbook.
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.
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.
Some firms have given up manufacturing and turned to adding value through design and research and development.
But as every business grasps the value of good design, its ability to differentiate diminishes.
Chevrolet provides consumers with fuel-efficient, safe and reliable vehicles that deliver high quality, expressive design, spirited performance and value.
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It doesn't seem that the people who plan call centers or design elevators have crunched the value of time into their equations.
"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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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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The Bamboo Stylus mini is for the most design discerning, who will also value the best feature yet: the Bamboo Stylus mini is extremely portable.
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The evaluation was based on a random sampling of American opinion toward car brands in seven areas: quality, safety, value, performance, design, technology and environmental friendliness.
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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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Only the most confident of design lovers and watch enthusiasts understand the value of a luxury digital watch.
Global design firm Woods Bagot also understands the value of business-style social tools to facilitate knowledge management.
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They will, for instance, require new personnel in areas that create value, such as business design, business analysis, and financial development.
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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Rather than continuing to spend energy and investment on raw technology development, it created a program building on the innovations of others, providing then the true value add of integration, design and branding that has made each product extension a success.
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.
These components of value had little to do with superior design or driving characteristics.
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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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Second, the delivery method is outdated and the extra hardware, including a special antenna, and design requirements increase production costs for little return in value.
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Gove's exams still place no value on creative subjects like art, music and drama, and no value on practical subjects like engineering, design and technology and construction.
But the key to economic growth is not just the low cost of production, it's the value added--the innovation, design or better architecture, or the sheer intangible of exciting fashion.
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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An excellent interpretation of a classic design in another watch is often a sign of good value.
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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.
Murthy is pushing into such higher value technology services as e-business consulting, design and implementation.
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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