Several themes reverberate throughout: analytics, breaking down silos, social, the cloud, and particularly customers, opportunities, growth, and innovation.
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The numbers and interactions have grown from one innovator with a small team, to multiple large (few tens of members) teams within an organization, to larger (several hundred members) external participants, particularly customers, and so on.
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Customers, particularly enterprise customers, are generally willing to imagine the possibilities and explore new ideas.
An agreement with IBM, signed in July, will encourage its 100, 000salespeople and 150, 000 consultants to push Palms, particularly for customers of its new wireless WebSphere software.
But Benn Steil, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, argues that, once in place, it could easily be extended into daytime trading hours, particularly if customers demanded it.
Kelly says multibranding allows Westpac to increase its overall customer base and the depth of its relationships, particularly with those customers who prefer a smaller bank culture.
Marketing, particularly to international customers, hardly occurs to top management.
And tech companies may be especially prone to those backlashes: Not only are tech customers particularly Web savvy, but the tech industry itself frequently sails into uncharted and--from a PR perspective--dangerous waters, says Waggener Edstrom's Neptune.
Second, the testimony that every single client on the list of customers to whom he sent an overnight package requested the enclosed ACAT forms strains credulity (particularly since most of these customers did not actually transfer their accounts).
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But many customers, particularly hospitals, wanted to be able to do some analysis within their own walls.
But many restaurants, pubs and butchers still offer beef on the bone, particularly to their regular customers.
Linux is particularly suited to business customers with a narrow range of specialised tasks, such as call centres.
Uncertainty about the big banks, Newman believes, is leading customers, particularly smaller firms, to rediscover the merits of old-fashioned relationship banking.
The resulting effect would put additional burden on NetFlix customers, particularly the important ones who accepted the pricing structure and both plans.
We are also looking at commercial applications for the work that we do for our government customers, particularly in the area of Cybersecurity.
This year will see a coronation party as these same vendors broaden and deepen their portfolios to reach more customers, particularly first-time smartphone users.
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Even more important is asking, and following up requests, for meetings with existing clients or customers, particularly when you are working on their matters.
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China is one of Airbus' most important customers, particularly for narrow-body planes, while the Middle East flies the flag for Airbus' wide-body jets like the double-decker A380.
To help persuade apparel makers that the machines are worth the investment, Sunstar has started to appeal to their customers, particularly so-called fast retailers, who change their inventory as often as once a week.
Sony's slowness at warning customers is particularly damaging because it comes just as new versions of high-profile games such as Mortal Kombat and Portal 2 are being released for both the PlayStation and its rival, Microsoft's Xbox 360.
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This marketing gimmick is particularly controversial because it prevents customers shopping around for better insurance deals.
But critics weren't buying, contending that the retailer could potentially use predatory lending practices, particularly with low-income customers.
He said he recognised that last year was "particularly difficult" for their customers but said the company had introduced the prices cuts as soon it could.
The new company--to be called Sprint Nextel --will boast a particularly strong base of corporate customers, and a total subscriber base of around 40 million customers.
Partnering with Cingular will also take the first line of customer support out of Good's hands, reducing the cost to the company, particularly as the number of customers increases.
And so, when a new release of Windows came on the market customers (and particularly business owners) were generally excited not just as much by the new features that would make their computing lives more fun, but more importantly with the fixes to the problems that plagued their daily lives too.
The president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Fredric Rolando, said the cutback is "a disastrous idea that would have a profoundly negative effect on the Postal Service and on millions of customers, " particularly businesses, rural communities, the elderly, the disabled and others who depend on Saturday delivery for commerce and communication.
Particularly strong were sales to manufacturing customers (usually about half of sales) which rose by 15.7%.
They are particularly attentive to attracting and retaining customers and to creating products and services, according to the 2012 Gartner CIO Agenda report.
IBM, another bellwether of the tech industry saw both revenue and profit fall during the quarter, which reflected slower sales, particularly of hardware, to commercial customers.
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