Every company in the printer business counts on engineering and product development to deliver products that will provide a growth avenue.
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From product development to strategy to technology management, much of the work done in organizations is assigned to teams.
We haven't been tempted to move product development to anywhere else even though we're operating in China, Japan, India, United States, United Kingdom.
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Specifically, the entrepreneur must stop wearing the multiple hats they wore when they started their company managing everything from new product development to customer service.
"We felt the need to connect with industry thought leaders who would help direct our product development to meet the future demands of the market, " said Taylor.
Uses could range from manufacturers engaging focus groups in a much more hands-on way at an early stage of product development to mass customization or individual use of the machines.
Going to your base, asking them what they want (or asking their help in everything from product development to logo design), and giving them what they want seems like a no-brainer.
Outsource product development to key vendors (Intel and Microsoft).
Therefore, in the second half of 2012, Capone added the role of Corporate Vice President of Product Development to his CIO title, adding a very business-centric role to his one in IT.
We believe it is our responsibility to encourage creative product development and to curb practices that compromise innovation.
As part of a broader management reorganization, Mulally has tapped DerrickKuzakDerrick Kuzak, who now runs product development for the Americas, to oversee product development for the whole company, from Asia to Europe, from the tiny Ford Ka to the SuperDuty pickup.
As part of a broader management reorganization, Mulally has tapped Derrick Kuzak , who now runs product development for the Americas, to oversee product development for the whole company, from Asia to Europe, from the tiny Ford Ka to the SuperDuty pickup.
Samsung, and competitors like HTC, have reduced the product development cycle to 12 months and Apple simply is not ready for it.
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Having product development close to the manufacturing capability can help to accelerate new ideas to market through active collaborations that develop simultaneously the product and manufacturing process.
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Smith said that because Facebook users in the rest of the world are accessing Facebook via smartphones, Facebook has also revamped its product development efforts to focus on mobile.
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Wal-Mart people are not stupid and to beat their product development one really needs to have a much higher risk tolerance to succeed at it.
In terms of performance, the company was leapfrogged by competitors after EMC decided 18 months ago to cancel an in-development interim product to focus all of its efforts on DMX.
The company today also announced the opening of a new Automotive Innovation and Product Development Center, to be based in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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While the stock has divided investors, the company has pushed forth on its path, investing in infrastructure and product development while trying to drive user engagement and, more recently, monetize mobile.
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To date and despite all of the frenzy around product development, Apple continues to set the product standards, earn an outsized portion of the industry profit, and keep ahead of the competitive threat.
For example it may become very clear that the marketing team develops poor advertising, the finance team makes lousy forecasts, the sales force is not hitting its distribution goals, or the product development team failed to incorporate key elements.
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Hasbro reported slower sales in the first quarter and a bug profit drop due to increased product development spending, which the company says will contribute to plans for a stronger presence in television and to expand more in emerging markets.
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Sood will provide strategic counsel on all aspects of Razer's business, from global operations to sales, marketing and product development, as the brand continues to evolve its business in the United States and abroad.
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His solution was to open every aspect of the product's development and design to gearheads around the world who wanted to pitch in.
The Reinvent Payphones Demo Day occurred last night at Quirky, a social product development company that brings new product ideas to life through its online collaborative platform.
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On the supply side, entrepreneurs are able to increasingly locate crowd-sourced funding through platforms like IndieGoGo, to iterate through social product development on platforms like Quirky, and to test market demand, pricing and take pre-orders to build a demand pipeline via platforms like Kickstarter.
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In explaining its decision to cease webOS product development, HP said it believed it would need to invest much more money into the business to succeed, given the fierce competition in the mobile industry.
Additionally, Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements, leading to slowness in product development and also creating a disadvantage when we seek to take advantage of new hardware platforms.
Our restructuring efforts are designed to simplify our product development cycles, reduce our breakeven point and enable us to fund differentiated product roadmaps and strategic breakaway opportunities.
Eucalyptus is exactly the kind of product whose development Apple ought to be encouraging.
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