In the business world, IBM is in the throes of a revolutionary five-year strategy to shift its product focus to software and services.
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However, we disagree on this front as the renewed product focus shown by Yahoo in recent months makes us think that the company can increase user engagement with new products.
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Additionally, free users have different requirements than paying customers and responding to these needs takes the product development focus off the paying customers.
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.
Do you really need to be producing printed collateral for every product when your company is moving to more of a cross-product solutions focus, and customers are increasingly using digital media or are too busy to look at it anyway?
However, using it requires entering a long hexadecimal "secret key" that isn't in keeping with the product's focus on simplicity.
But I think Apple misses the point of what an enterprise is for because of its narrow product and brand focus.
This had the benefit of humanizing the new characters that parents may well have thought were the product of a focus group.
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Speaking to GigaOM, Redbox Instant CEO Shawn Strickland said his product's focus remains movies -- both physical and digital -- which differs from Netflix's TV-heavy library and emphasis on web content.
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Designed for LEGO fans of all ages, the initial product line will focus on iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPod touch, with plans to expand to other platforms over the course of the partnership.
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At the end of the day, it's not about dropping your product or service focus entirely--but those leaders of the reputation economy who are leading by example have found a way to deepen those connections with their customers by letting them know who's behind the curtain.
You can more effectively market a product if you tailor your message to fit the motivational focus of the product or the audience you are aiming for.
The retailer also plans to revamp its focus on product designs to elevate its brand image.
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Industry should stop innovating to gain market share, and innovate and focus on product reliability and longevity.
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The new focus on product experience is now being codified and will eventually be published in a similar form.
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Responses to devastating digital attacks are simply too important to be left solely to social media managers whose primary focus is product promotion.
Engineering is to focus by product and service functionally, with some of the new invention, such as video, coming from an Emerging Business Group.
In the best of all scenarios, Jobs would hire a competent CEO and focus on product development, but his ego would soon lead him to undermine his replacement.
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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The recent dearth of new releases and silence from the company was apparently due to some internal restructuring in which the company moved people around to focus on product groups.
My gig in the studio system ended when my boss Jane Evans encouraged me to leave my full time job in production to focus on product placement and hired me as a consultant.
Unfortunitly, I was less than impressed with the focus of his product GamePlay.
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Instead of four product divisions, two would focus on customers (business and consumer) and two on technology (computers and printers).
You might think that a start-up should focus on one product and try to make it a success before branching out.
Will it stick to letting Ms. Huffington build her empire, and focus on the product and its market fit rather than short-term revenues?
Getting someone to focus on your product or service, understand it, see value in it and purchase it sometimes seems like a miracle.
This way would have allowed us to focus on our product, rather than focusing on raising capital during those first few critical months of a startup.
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