This simple, risk-averse model is built on market niche differentiation that has resulted in accretive dividend yield.
Lenovo's business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets.
So unless you run a financial institution whose business model is built on cheating consumers, or making risky bets that could damage the whole economy, you have nothing to fear from Wall Street reform.
Automakers, whose traditional business model is built around supplying cars to car dealers, might use a clean sheet of paper to lay out business models where they engage more directly with consumers and share in the multitrillion-dollar revenue stream associated with cars.
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"Employees of a news organisation have an obligation to break stories via their employer rather than to the world at large and it is easy to see that if a company's whole business model is built on breaking news then doing that on Twitter undermines that business, " she said.
And yet the private insurance reimbursement model is literally built on a system of foisting huge overhead on small medical practices.
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Apple's new model is likely built around new, burlier communications chips from Infineon, says Will Strauss, a veteran communications chip watcher at Forward Concepts.
The for-profit college business model is essentially built on these lines: diploma mills which exist solely on the government dime and yet are almost entirely unregulated.
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The model describes how matter is built and how particles interact.
This new model of marketing is primarily built around listening, sharing, facilitating: If you do that, people will trust you enough to let you be a part of their cultural movement.
The model, which is paper mache built around a cane skeleton, took four days to make.
Leroy's model is Dell, which has built its entire business on fast response times to incoming orders.
Mr Page stresses that it is not a model built around public handouts.
By the same token, the streaming service further threatens the model on which premium cable is built, no doubt cause for worry at outlets like Showtime.
In effect, Schwab is repeating a model it built for mutual funds years ago, hoping to attract the hordes of retirement investors who need access to the products at a low cost.
One operating system is the traditional hierarchical model which we have used for decades and other is built for agility and change.
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Leroy's model is Dell Computer, which has built its entire business on fast response times to incoming orders.
The company has built a business model that is hard to replicate, partly because it does engineering, sales, installation and maintenance in-house.
Musk also wrote that Model S production is picking up: Tesla built 100 cars in the last week of September, four times more than at the beginning of the month.
As a business model, there is a lot of inefficiency built into the supply chain and replenishment process for these street vendors, since they reside a few notches down in the distribution system from the regular brick and mortar merchants with whom they compete.
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Much like the language, the arrangement is a model of sublime economy, built around Veirs' slender guitar part and gentle rhythmic accents. (With her sweet, breathy delivery, the Oregon-based Veirs sounds at times like an older, romantically thwarted Taylor Swift.) But as the song continues, the production gradually builds, as if matching her own escalating ache.
Lord Simpson's model, here, is Mr Welch, who built the world's most successful company by focusing not on his products, but on his customers.
Sun City, the other great model, is a town of 46, 000 people built by Del Webb on the other side of Phoenix from Anthem.
Model S is the world's first premium sedan built from the ground up as an electric vehicle and has been engineered to elevate the public's expectations of what a premium sedan can be.
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Because social responsibility is built into their brand name and business model, they avoided the common negative perception of financial institutions, Fombrun says.
BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 is built on the same security and connectivity model for BlackBerry 10 smartphones that enterprise customers have always trusted and relied upon with BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
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During the first quarter the company built 5, 000 Model S cars, and is scheduled to build the same number in Q2 to keep pace with the 20, 000 orders expected this year.
Samsung's Vacuum Tube Soundbar (model HW-F750) is the first soundbar to feature a built-in vacuum tube to maximize sound quality, and is the world's first soundbar that can wirelessly connect with a TV via Bluetooth.
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An engineer makes a three-dimensional model of each piece of equipment before the life-size version is built.
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