Ideally, the BoM also provides analytic data for better management decisions, on tradeoffs between suggested design modifications and other critical factors like cost and compliance.

FORBES: PLM and the Bill of Materials

Goldstein suggested Aho design a product that would excise, not replace, expletives and nude scenes.

FORBES: Monster in a Box

But in 1973, when then IBM chairman Thomas Watson Jr. suggested that design drove sales, he was putting forth a provocative assertion.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But in 1973, when then IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) chairman Thomas Watson Jr. suggested that design drove sales, he was putting forth a provocative assertion.

FORBES: Money Follows Form

Genta again produced a robust design that suggested the impermeability of a ship's porthole, while exhibiting constructional details worthy of fine jewelry.

WSJ: This Sporting Life

All sorts of beautiful touches supported the well delivered dialogue: from authentic props such as the record player to the subtle lighting design that evocatively suggested the rising daylight that beamed into Frankie's apartment.

BBC: By Wilf Arasaratnam

Well, you might have thought we suggested that Apple knew nothing about design or stores or sales!

FORBES: Just Plain Bad Marketing Is Losing Retail War for jcp (the Former Brand Once Known as J. C. Penney)

In the case of a new small car, the Fiesta, that will be sold worldwide starting next year, Ford's top U.S. designer, Peter Horbury, suggested jazzing up the largely European design by adding certain chrome details favored by Americans.

FORBES: Back To The Future

Some sources suggested that could be the result of preliminary design work being done for projects later scrapped due to lack of financing or other matters that could result in slower payments.

FORBES: Slower payments hitting some construction firms

Is it simply a matter of there being a finite number of facial geometries? (You'll note, perhaps, that the Toyota Avalon looks like the latest product from Ford Design.) Was it, as others have suggested, a case of intellectual property and fair play, since Ford at one time owned Aston Martin?

WSJ: 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid Review: Passion Seizes the Family Sedan | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

These once-novel methods of chip design have done respectably in specialist applications, but have not dethroned Intel as it was suggested they might when they were launched.

ECONOMIST: Computing