BT's response was to revamp its company structure, so that it focused on specific market sectors for different customers.
"Verizon Wireless has for years offered many different choices for customers, including contract plans or month-to-month plans that do not require a contract, " said spokeswoman Debra Lewis in a prepared statement.
It will require a different goal (adding value for customers), a different role for managers (enabling self-organizing teams), a different way of coordinating work (dynamic linking), different values (continuous improvement and radical transparency) and different communications (horizontal conversations).
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SwapThing, which lists almost 3.5 million "things" available for trade, reports that its customers are bartering for different reasons than before.
Otten now buys high-protein whey concentrate from cheesemakers, refines it in his plant and extracts different proteins for various customers.
Firms that try to charge different prices to different customers for non-transparent reasons are defecting from this social norm, effectively imposing costs on the rest of society for their own benefit.
Holiday clubs offer the choice of different locations of hotels for customers and pay an upfront fee, as well as an annual maintenance fee.
What we need is not just experimentation state-by-state, but within states and localities, with different delivery systems competing for the same customers.
In 1906 Congress passed an act that made it illegal for railroads to charge different rates to different customers--a railroad version of Net neutrality.
Along with the VYBE 15 notebook, the VYBE desktop line has been also updated to be quickships as well offering four different pre-built configurations for customers to select from that fit their performance and budget needs.
The all new MAINGEAR VYBE 15 is MAINGEAR's first 15-inch quickship notebook that offers four different pre-configured systems with different performance and price ranges for customers to select from, that ships in 24-48 hours of order confirmation.
"Our customers were looking for something different and they didn't want that kind of locker room--type environment where you change in a common area, wait in a common area and so forth, " recalls Gordon Tareta, director of spa operations for Hyatt.
Waechter notes that the company is working with five different potential customers on additional uses for the gesture recognition technology.
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Employees who used to be assigned one task, like inputting new enrollment information for all customers, would now handle several different functions.
That would mean satellite and launch rocket would have to be designed in tandem, so customers could not shop around for different launch vehicles.
And those customers were consuming milkshakes for completely different reasons.
Different customers not only want different things from their smartphones, they want difference for its own sake, which explains the otherwise inscrutable shifting of coolness cachet from the iPhone to Samsung's Galaxy S line.
You may feel attached to your business idea and wish to change nothing about it, but after conducting a survey maybe you find that customers are looking for a slightly different service or additional features.
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Last year, Pepco Holdings announced a two-year pilot program for smart meters, which will give customers several different pricing options.
Have a reason for your prioritization system that reflects the different value of different customers, as well as operational efficiency.
Customers are willing to pay different amounts for the same product or service, depending on how well off they are and how much they need it.
If you're one of 170, 000 customers who now have different beneficiaries named for separate IRAs of the same type or different beneficiaries for different mutual funds within a single IRA, Vanguard will apply the newest beneficiary form to all your IRAs of one type--unless you contact Vanguard and direct otherwise.
That means customers do not have to buy different gliders for different applications.
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The vision is of one website to rule them all - or rather a single destination for the government's customers rather than more than 400 different addresses spread across the various Whitehall departments.
The airlines would have to provide those customers who ask with all the different fares charged for a particular flight.
Private insurers will compete to find ways to reduce costs for seniors, and innovate with different benefits to better serve and attract customers.
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As such, they appeal to a different class of customers, carving out wholly new markets for themselves before going on to have the industrial Goliaths' business for lunch.
But now the potential for millions of new customers under the Affordable Care Act is giving health plans a different reason to seek partnerships.
Since then, declines have surfaced in five different quarters, according to Bernstein research, startling an industry that for decades had added customers at a brisk clip.
Our customers want something different from the mainstream, who appear to be the target for the Galaxy.
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