His creations are often born out of his own frustrations with existing products and services.
Or, would a bundle cannibalize sales from its existing products leading to lower overall revenues?
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They would have caught flack, however, for reformulating existing products to appeal to healthier tastes.
Next quarter 3Ci is introducing tools that integrate social media and big data services into its existing products.
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For example, in 1993 alone firms exporting existing products to existing markets accounted for 91% of total export growth.
Boeing and Airbus could stick with their existing products, steadily squeezing out improvements.
They generate 9% more revenue with their existing physical capacity and drive more efficiency in their existing products and processes.
When a customer buys an item the tag can be removed, just like the anti-theft devices attached to existing products.
He predicted that Apple would suffer a similar fate after coasting for a while on the back of existing products.
Although it spends plenty on research, Danisco is concentrating on developing new uses for existing products, rather than on real innovations.
Their questions typically are about cutting costs, how to beat the competition, and what to do to make improvements to existing products.
While companies try to capitalize on the feature-richness, efficiency, or material quality of their products, increasing competition pushes existing products towards commoditization.
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An updated operating system (Windows 7, built on Vista) and set of office automation tools (Office 2010) to run on existing products.
In some instances, entrepreneurs are rebranding existing products to suit the iPad.
Since it is not practical to have a physically-backed crude oil fund, existing products rely on futures contracts to implement their strategies.
And absent a price on carbon, biomass-based chemicals and fuels need to be less expensive than existing products, not at price parity.
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The double-digit top-line growth was driven by both innovative and existing products.
Their spending is focused instead on maintaining the competitiveness of existing products.
Looking for new markets for existing products and having the engineering capability to work with customers on design and manufacturing process is essential.
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So we add more salespeople at key accounts, add more money to the advertising budget for the most successful (or most profitable) existing products.
Since the fragrance arm has been brought in-house, the plan is to shrink the brand's exposure, canceling lower-end outlets, followed by a revitalization of existing products.
Existing products will be adapted and the savings gained by not using the special software, will enable us to provide a full service to our customers.
For years they have invested huge sums to license drugs from rivals, make small improvements in old drugs and clinch broader marketing claims for already-existing products.
While Microsoft bundles it with other offerings and has sometimes threatened price hikes on existing products if customers signal they want to switch, SharePoint is notoriously expensive.
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These informal sprawls, for all their problems, may well prove to be a source of new products--and refinements and improvements of existing products--helping to fire future economic growth.
That means rewarding them for shifting up a gear from making incremental improvements to their existing products, to coming up with radical innovations that rewrite the market rules.
He just wants to promote existing products while cutting headcount!
Why would they need to now with their existing products?
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The result: Nvidia claims its Tegra processors get as much as 10 times the power efficiency of existing products in battery-operated gadgets running applications such as games and video.
But GE and TCS are doing something more exciting than fiddling with existing products: they are taking the needs of poor consumers as a starting point and working backwards.
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