"Our holding today is limited -- addressing the situation before us, rather than every one involving a self-replicating product, " she said.
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While the microcapsule coatings will be the first self-healing product to make it to market, scientists are also working on developing more complex models.
The only way Mehdi and I have managed to stay focused on the right things is to change the rules of the game so that self-imposed customer, product, and market fit failures have public consequences for the company and shareholders.
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While Rent the Runway does exhaustive quality control to ensure the absolute perfection of their rental inventory, their product is as much an about self-empowerment as it is about a physical product.
Big east-coast firms such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General were self-contained empires that focused on one product, mini-computers.
The results have been terrific: a world-class integrated data platform, expanded consumer and customer databases, online, self-service systems, strengthened product fulfillment, new ways of onboarding customers more quickly, and cultural acceptance of a shared services model leading to 13 consecutive quarters of double-digit million dollar annual operating margins.
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One result is to turn what was once a commodity product into a self-contained service.
The old vision was to create a self-service, easy to use product that anybody could use to sell tickets.
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The engineers building the product are pretty self-sufficient and are able to hack on most levels of our stack.
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Hype about a product such as the iPhone is also self-perpetuating: Hearing that people are waiting in line for hours to get a product can make others want it more, said James Mol, psychologist at Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.
PLC, whose misconduct has cost it billions of pounds, CEO Antony Jenkins recently said he was "shredding" a self-serving and aggressive culture by abolishing commissions on financial-product sales, among other things.
Never in the history of the self-propelled vehicle have we had such product variety.
In fact in an important oversight we have tended to think of this system as distinctly software related whereas self-organising ecosystems have typified many physical product communities in areas like the Veneto region of Italy for decades.
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It is a product of intelligence, resilience, self-organization and group solidarity.
Wharton marketing professor Patti Williams cites Gold's Gym--the Texas-based gym chain--as an example of a company that has found a way to navigate the economic slump while promoting a product that might seem discretionary or self-indulgent in hard times.
Mr Blair shifted uneasily in his seat - was it that he was already anticipating charges that he had offered a high profile endorsement for the product, or simply that as a self-confessed technophobe he hadn't a clue what was going on?
The experts shared opinions regarding the problems faced by journalist self-regulation bodies in examination of complaints surging from information product consumers and the experience of interaction with mass media professionals in solving conflict situations related to the violation of the standards of journalist ethics.
Others I have met on the road echo the same, saying they did not take off for the purposes of self-discovery, even if it was a fun by-product.
Look at previous company results, and listen for evidence of self-sufficiency, problem solving, and a thorough understanding of your product, technology, customers, and the market.
But self-determination and effort must also be critical factors, or else every product of that era would also be shaping industries.
The high standards of product testing required for the aerospace industry meant that the self-healing composites were not likely to be found in airplane construction any time soon.
The former management consultant and Google product manager, who has won over many Twitter employees with his self-deprecating humor, has also been busy building out the company's executive bench.
In our product roadmap, in our future plans we would like to deal with self-published works.
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These people should be experts on the area your product addresses and have real experience working with competitive products or their own self-made workarounds.
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Professor Harnad argues that what is at issue is what he calls 'self piracy': copyright was drafted to protect the author from theft of his product - but academics would be dealing with their own work, so comparisons with the widespread net piracy of music, text or software do not apply.
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