Brands are spending an awful lot of time trying to figure out how to make the digital space work, and not nearly enough time trying to deeply understand how to make their brand work.
The challenge is to make sense of the data in time to matter, to understand how consumer attitudes and behavior are changing and how they are being changed by marketing and advertising efforts.
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"We put a modest but important sum of money there to understand the market and over time I think a company like ours will be able to understand how to operate and be successful in those type of markets, " he added.
Ellis said a key to building successful applications, especially for mobile where users are often pressed for time, is to understand how customers use the device.
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You must have the time to understand how it works or check the results are what they say they are.
She said it took the United Nations a long time to understand how culture is capable of bringing peoples and economies together.
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All these benefits are supposed to lead to lower operational costs for utilities over time and help consumers understand how much energy they use and how to manage and conserve energy.
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"The methods that we've used can be applied to understand how the brain tracks auditory information over time, " Abrams said.
It is a full-time job to understand how any of these systems work, let alone to implement one and qualify it as a new product.
And we heard about employers who were struggling with finding the right talent at the right time, and community colleges being -- having a hard time trying to understand how to get ahead of the economy and not just doing what they did before.
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Not as a diss on what Todd is saying, but I hear this marketing-speak all the time and very few understand how to serve the reader, serve the customer, with information that delivers true value.
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In addition to space and time, languages also shape how we understand causality.
In 2008, the United Nations was besieged by member countries asking for help on how to understand what was happening to their populations in real-time.
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Indeed, Brooks describes in some detail how the concept of thumos enables Harry to understand for the first time his lifelong fantasies of glory and the inner logic of his high-school society.
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This time his key contributions included helping understand how to make the materials better conductors.
And many GI specialists don't have the time or training to help patients understand how stress might cause their symptoms, he says.
When you do suffer a setback, take some time to understand why it happened and how it may be prevented in the future.
To understand how ultra-easy money for a prolonged period of time misguides animal spirits, we define and distinguish two forms, demand-side entrepreneurship and supply-side entrepreneurship.
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Jeffrey Molitor, Vanguard's overseer of outside managers, says he and his staff spend a lot of time talking to potential managers to understand how they make decisions and whether they have an approach that's likely to let them beat the market.
At the same time, IT staff need to better understand how IT aligns with business goals.
As the final estimate of the costs from hurricane Sandy will not be known for some time, a reasonable starting point is to understand how damages are calculated, Barclays Capital economists led by Michael Gapen wrote in a research note on Friday.
And she helps women business owners understand how to do that upfront work, how to be sure they deliver on time and are paid promptly.
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Instead of looking at a single gene or protein in isolation, researchers may one day study all of them at once to understand how the body functions and how things go wrong, charting for the first time the intricate biochemical chain reactions that lead to heart disease, diabetes or schizophrenia--and gaining astonishing insights into cures.
They understand that to win, it was time to devote new energy to how they do what they do.
For instance, South Africans, accustomed to working in some of the riskier parts of their continent, may understand how to deal with a threat much better than someone coming to Africa for the first time.
Instead of the teacher or the administrator being the judge of progress, there are explicit criteria where both the students and the teachers can understand themselves how they are doing (in real time) and thus learn how to improve.
"In our time of ever-lengthening life, many people will be able to understand how the pope as well has to deal with the burdens of aging, " she told reporters in Berlin.
At the same time, social networking sites need to provide easy to understand disclosures to users on how information they submit is being shared.
How do you take that in and make that something you can help your officers understand they have to deal with each time they go out on the street?
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