Taking a page from Apple's playbook, Dell is hiring designers as it moves away from its old model of building custom-made computers and begins bypassing traditional retail outlets in order to sell its machines directly to customers.
Over in the corner sits a model of the one building Gehry can't seem to finish: his home.
As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
After the events of 1912, and the recent Hollywood reminder, it might seem that nobody in their right mind would consider building another model of the Titanic.
Aleksander Popel and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are building a model of the micro-vasculature to get a better understanding of how molecules and cells interact in these narrow channels where physical experiments are hard to perform.
Today, Puerto Rican workers are writing the next chapter by turning the building into a model of energy efficiency.
Like Southwest in the 1980s, it shunned the conventional model for building an airline in favor of its own unique business plan.
Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model.
The exercise of thinking through and building the model is very important in helping you measure success and identify risks.
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Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
For more than a year, company execs have been discussing becoming a "mobile virtual network operator, " or MVNO, a model under which a company skips the expensive process of building a national phone network, instead signing on with an existing provider and rebranding its service.
Always persuade and inspire your associates, serve as their role model and mentor to help them overcome the many hurdles of building a successful business.
Led by Steve Brill, a journalist and entrepreneur who started Court TV, and Gordon Crovitz, the former Wall Street Journal publisher, Journalism Online is building an iTunes-like model for micropayments of media content.
And she thinks that the Conservative policy of devolving budgetary responsibility to individual schools could prove a model for building strong institutions at the estate level.
To celebrate the design, it created a full-size model of part of this open space in the massive hangar-like building where parts of the ship were being built in Finland.
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AeroVironment has worked on some strange projects over the years, including building a solar-powered airplane and a working model of a Quetzalcoatlus, a giant flying dinosaur, for an IMAX movie.
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"I think the range of science questions that are there, and the methodologies and types of vehicle that we use to address that science, is going to follow very much the Mars model - we'll have one mission building on the success of another and exploring different questions, " he told BBC News.
There, other participants can see all of the code from others and use it in their own model building.
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To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
He tells how, during the first six years of building salesforce.com, he depended entirely on an inside sales model.
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"The USCG attorneys bringing these suits are not affiliated with any major entertainment companies, but are instead intent on building a lucrative business model from collecting settlements from the largest possible set of individual defendants, " said a spokeswoman for the body.
As a teenager he was more of a tinkerer than a talker, winning national competitions for building and racing model planes.
The laser beams on the Tele Atlas vans scan each building on the road thousands of times, creating a three-dimensional model of the neighborhood that, when matched to photos from the high-resolution cameras, can be used to re-create a realistic cityscape.
The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.
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The acquisition was not so much for Compaq's PC business-- Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) relentless cost-cutting model has taken out most of its competitors' profits there--but in the hope of building a consulting business, particularly in managed services, that could complement HP's highly profitable printing business.
The model Southern is building, the AP1000, is totally new, with safety systems powered by gravity instead of electricity, a so-called passive design.
The business model is to provide some of the necessary capital to other mining companies via an upfront payment to assist in the building of the mine.
Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) is a secure software development lifecycle model that grew out of scientific observations around software security practices at nine companies ranging from Adobe to Google, and Wells Fargo back in 2009.
LaunchPad central shows great promise in terms of helping a startup team keep track of their business model canvas as it evolves based on your hypothesis, keeping track of customer contact as you get out of the building, and providing a way to engage mentors and advisors in the process.
"We thought we could replicate" the same games business model on mobile as online, said Doug Purdy, a Facebook director of product management, before discovering that developers were building stand-alone apps, tailored to the Android and Apple operating systems.
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