In the rush for expediency, we take short cuts like sacrificing testing time or product quality.
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Styling, rather than technology or product quality, is now their weakest point, reckons Huaibin Lin of IHS, a forecaster.
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Total Quality Management (TQM, ) Continuous Improvement (CI, ) and Six Sigma programs all have been glorified by companies hoping to improve product or service quality.
Especially if they offer a quality product or exude a positive image or brand.
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It is certainly possible, however, to eliminate some costs without sacrificing the quality of your service or product.
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Ultimately, celebrity-endorsed or not, the quality of the product and the underlying value proposition will need to fuel a sustained interest and excitement for the brand.
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This research confirms that the quality of your marketing (website, e-mails, local ads, etc.) all combine to communicate the quality of your product or service to your target audience.
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And fifth, the ability of others to free-ride on the plaintiff would so reduce the incentive to produce the product or service that its existence or quality would be substantially threatened.
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The 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act bans the adulteration of food by any agent intended to dupe the consumer into thinking the product is superior in quality or more nutritious than it actually is.
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Who would have believed just 20 years ago that you could build a successful computer operating system using only volunteers, working without a plan or assigned tasks to produce a quality product that garners a 25 percent market share?
Rather, Miron expects that current users would take advantage of the lower prices to either use more or use the same but buy higher quality product.
Tests have shown that even slight changes in paper content will cause people to order more -- or less -- due to their perception of the quality of the product.
In a recent study our firm, New Business Strategies, conducted on how companies purchase technology we found that Fortune 100 organizations place more importance on the quality of their vendor relationships than how well the product or service performs.
"I think the authenticity and the raw African-ness of 'The Lion King' is a bigger selling point than any other product that has ever been on Broadway or on stage, done with a world-class quality approach, " says Lebo, who is determined to keep the show's feel authentically African by making sure that all international productions feature South African performing in them.
One unfortunate note on the LCD: we're not sure if Stantum didn't pick a high-quality part, had some trouble with the hand-built nature of this product, or is really impeding the LCD with its resistive overlay, but there was something cheap and pixelated to the display that we haven't noticed on standard Dell mini 10 LCDs.
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He picks a product or service that he thinks will make a quick profit, and sets the price as high and the quality as low as he believes the market will bear.
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Last week, it unveiled what it considers to be its most exciting product yet, a device that allows consumers to wirelessly stream DVD-quality video from a computer or a camera to any television in their home.
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