Survey results influence employee bonuses, the training of particular workers and product decisions.
Business divisions like the film studio, the stuffed-animal division and publishing have always made product decisions independently without consulting one another.
This contributes not only to awareness, but actual product decisions.
Whereas traditional product development would involve making product decisions using business intuition and knowledge, Zynga turned decision-making on its head by hypothesis-driven product testing, quick analysis and agile roll-out based on how customers behaved.
The company also said it will update the FDA about its progress implementing the plan at least once a month and would involve an independent firm in making product decisions during the first six months of operation.
Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.
Nor that the tax advantage that private-equity firms enjoy is the product of decisions made by politicians past.
And we try to be methodical in our product development decisions.
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David "Dadi" Perlmutter, the 53-year-old Israeli engineer who ran the Core team, is now in charge of the sprawling microprocessor giant's product development decisions--that is, figuring out which chips will one day replace the Core.
And customer surveys consistently show service and support is more important than the product in purchasing decisions.
The circuit court had also urged that courts as much as possible stay out of product-design decisions.
The analysts looked at product-specific decisions made by advisory committees from 2007 through 2010, a total of 120 votes.
Almost nobody--inside Microsoft or out of it--wants the Federal Government overseeing Microsoft's business decisions and product designs.
Otherwise, you end up making business, product, and technology decisions aimed at short term goals (i.e. making money).
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K. reports that two-thirds of smartphone owners today have used their devices to make purchases and over 80% have used smartphones to assist in purchasing decisions through product research at least once in the past year.
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And health providers or product developers affected by its decisions can't sue it for recourse.
In fact, they are preferable to ill-fated acquisitions, bad business decisions and lackluster product lines.
The intellectual sophistication of public radio's product validates teachers' personal decisions to invest their lives in a field that places a premium on education.
"I kind of have the theory that our success, where we are in life, is the product of thousands of little decisions that we make every day, " Mr. Berg says.
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Lately, the bosses of some of these firms have taken to speaking about the industry's excess capacity as if this were an affliction visited upon them from outer space, rather than the product of their own investment decisions.
The same could apply to products at monstrous companies like Samsung or Sony, where executives need to make planning decisions based on product performance, and could benefit greatly from having all of the necessary information for a single gadget listed around each cube.
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Any engineer on the team will pay a lot of attention to big architecture decisions that affect the product and so should you.
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This evaluation does not prevent Medicare patients from getting Provenge, and all but one of the 15 Medicare contractors that make these decisions are covering the product, according to Dendreon.
With this level of insight across information silos, channels and departments, organizations can better serve customers and increase product innovation and quality and support decisions made across the enterprise, as well as provide more dynamic, contextual customer interactions for one-to-one marketing.
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Worse, the definition of exactly what's taxable varies from state to state, with decisions often made on a product-by-product basis.
Notably, pricing decisions can depend on a product's expected reliability.
Scribe has devised a product development and management framework that guides all decisions with regard to existing and new products.
This idea evolved into Crowdery, a platform that allows brands to make production decisions based on crowdsourced votes on product designs.
It takes a certain amount of time for companies to make decisions and re-engineer a product, in this case auto catalysts, and put them into production.
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Now, the successful, immensely popular product will cease to be because of bad management decisions.
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