In the end, however, focusing on the API business model may ultimately have paid off for Miller, pushing him to develop a robust technology that can also be used in other verticals.
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Focusing on the end result distracts people from doing what it takes on a daily basis to achieve the best bottom line.
Tibco is focusing on serving this end-to-end value chain for analytics with its portfolio of products.
In Moscow Hines has built several projects, despite the collapsing Russian economy, by focusing on high-end developments aimed at Westerners.
The company is also changing its structure: from April 1 it will divide itself into two business units: Smart Devices and Mobile Phones, with the former focusing on high-end smartphones and the latter, mass-market mobile phones.
The feedback I got from potential users on my front-end prototypes was invaluable in shaping and focusing our product road map.
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Designing for the peak-end rule is another way of not focusing on what is less important, but about focusing on what brings the most value to the customer experience.
The only action roughly comparable was the October 1979 decision to target the money supply directly and end the practice of targeting money indirectly by focusing on interest rates.
Last week, Intel returned to CES with a renewed effort to move into smartphones, this year focusing in particular at the low-end of the smart phone market.
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Nokia hopes that by focusing on budget as well as top end users it can reclaim ground from rivals such as Apple, Samsung and ZTE who have in recent years undermined the Finnish multinational's previously dominant position.
Company schemes can keep costs down by focusing on the default fund, the option that employees end up with (since they have difficulty making their own choice).
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When we finally sat down for a three-hour lunch, it was evident at the end of the "background" discussion that Ms. Elliot was focusing too much on personalities, me especially, and not enough on the substantive arguments against sharia.
For now, Ma is focusing on receiving official blessing for his planned environmental NGO by the end of the year, which he hopes will make fund raising an easier task.
The sequester scaremongers, by focusing attention on how our federal government is run, may in the end convince tax payers that we are paying too much for the limited services we get in return.
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But by ignoring the crowd and focusing on these firms' strong financials and fundamentals, I think the Neff model will end up benefiting significantly from many of these picks.
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