Bad profits are about extracting value from customers, not creating value.

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While they report significant progress over the past few years, most say their organizations do not have a repeatable process for extracting value from innovation and do not devote enough resources to it compared with running day-to-day operations.

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They have developed a method of extracting greater value from assets than others have been able to.

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The thought of making sense of the social web, let alone extracting any value from it in realtime, is daunting.

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Among them: extracting more value from public opinion data.

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The added shares, coupled with Wasserstein's hard-won reputation as a shrewd negotiator capable of extracting the maximum value in any deal, may also be weighing on the stock.

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The site's legendary efficiency comes from extracting the last drop of value from every chemical reaction.

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Unfortunately, the global industrial value chain is already extracting more resources than nature produces each year.

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