But to measure up to Mr Jobs, he will need to spot the potential of products that consumers don't yet know they need.
We also note that the iPad mini shows management is aware of the need for lower-end products that ultimately offer a foothold in markets where Apple can capture upgrade growth (i.e. the 40% of the tablet market that is owned by mostly Amazon, Samsung, Google and ASUS).
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In effect, Schwab is repeating a model it built for mutual funds years ago, hoping to attract the hordes of retirement investors who need access to the products at a low cost.
The result is that there will be the need to increase in the features and quality of Chinese products to support this demand in order to compete with foreign brands.
The food industry will need to increase the amount of testing it does on products.
They also monitor trends that indicate the need for new products and services, and oversee the development of those products.
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In order to maximize the performance of the products and services and have any hope of them getting adopted, organizations need to integrate vertically and create interdependent architectures that tightly weave different components together to optimize performance, in terms of functionality and reliability.
Also, the hybrid world of SAP products need to work with each other.
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They don't need to raise the prices of their products to do well.
If anything, the question of refunds for digital products will eventually need to be decided by courts, both here in the United States and abroad.
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In an institution dominated by investment bankers, the need of brokers to earn commissions by selling the bank's own investment products may be given a higher priority than offering the customer good advice.
The last rule for positioning a brand in China is that products must address the need to navigate the crosscurrents of ambition and regimentation, of standing out while fitting in.
But we need to acknowledge that the attraction of cultural products is also subject to different shades of social influence and randomness.
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But the pharmaceutical companies counter that they need to preserve longer the billions of dollars in revenue from their patented products in order to recover the billions they spend developing new drugs.
Any driver familiar with the flakiness of some early releases of Microsoft's products need not fear, however: his car will not crash each time the operating system does.
The new products are essentially reconfigurations of existing Oracle products, spurred by a need to touch customers who don't write checks as big as they used to.
And the change most needed, and now made even more obvious, is the need to rein in the involvement of the major banks in creating and marketing high-risk trading products, and their own reckless high-risk trading activities in those products.
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"Despite the trace amounts of lead in the products at issue, the federal government has determined that Americans need to eat more -- not less -- of these nutritious foods, " they said in court documents.
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You need a single view of products from the private bank to the investment bank.
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Fast food restaurants are getting by with the absolute minimum amount of labor they need to supply their products.
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Once you define the scope of your potential business and the corresponding potential market for your products and services, you need to determine why a consumer or business would purchase from you rather than a competitor.
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The internet has played a crucial part in the rise of video games, enabling developers to get their products into their customers' hands without the need for traditional shops or publishers.
We need the talents and reach of Swizz to help bring these products to life in the eyes of the consumer.
That may be why he spent so much time talking about the need for simplification in systems design, and re-purposing of products.
He also highlighted the fact that the video-game sector has been in decline and in need of new products like this.
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Finally, gun-makers need to demonstrate leadership in the public debate about the safety of their products, instead of merely playing defense.
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Many of those homes are going to be older and in need of an environmental or green retrofit that could benefit the sustainable products industry.
We must assure that consumers of financial products have the information and safeguards that they need, so their life savings are not placed in needless jeopardy.
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So they may simply be cutting back on their purchases of other products and services and still buying the gasoline they need.
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