Today, many brands are using technology to learn the price the market will bear for a new product, at the point of initial product development.
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Consequently, we are extremely pleased with the excitement created by the OLED displays currently in the market, and the increase in new OLED product development that has been encouraged by these initial successes.
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Though business trends decelerated in the fourth quarter, we remain focused on new product development and market share gains to offset the secular declines in the PND industry and the continued generation of long-term shareholder value.
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Commercial lenders also argue with that with increased margins, microfinance companies can reinvest in the development of new product lines to address the myriad needs of the poor.
Having launched a development platform for real-time analytics applications and a fully integrated ultrasonic signal conditioner for automotive parking distance applications, TI added to its existing industrial portfolio new product development in the LED division last month.
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Each Monday morning at Apple, CEO Tim Cook meets with the other nine members of the executive team, just as Jobs did before him, to review the business, look at how existing products are faring, discuss every new product under development and talk over issues affecting the company.
Navin Geria, vice president of research and development for the Spa Dermaceutical Products Group, a New Jersey-based consumer product development company that specializes in custom development of anti-aging skincare and products for dermatologists and spa chains, says that a new range of anti-aging technology called cosmeceuticals (cosmetics that companies says possess drug-like affects) will go a step further.
The committee became a board-within-the-board, tackling issues of new product development, competitive strategy, and priorities.
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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Several of the most promising ideas are being chosen for the students to now take into a new product development course this month.
The changes will allow Ford to cut 8 to 14 months from its vehicle-development cycle, says Derrick Kuzak, Ford's new product development chief for the Americas.
Wallstrip formed the heart of a new research and development lab looking to develop the next "it" product.
The Blodgett acquisition has helped to spur new-product development.
The cash balance provides more than sufficient firepower for new product development and patent enforcement.
He has tripled spending on new-product development and is putting the brand on prime-time TV this fall for the first time in three years.
Their efforts will benefit from both the financial support and expertise of the new owner, including supply-chain management, product development and logistics, says Mr. Babeau.
At Rubbermaid he has tripled spending on new-product development and is putting the brand on prime-time TV this fall for the first time in three years.
Houzz, which has about 60 employees, is focusing with the new funding on building out its team in engineering and product development.
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The next versions of the iPad, iPhone, iMac and iTunes are no doubt well along the product development path, and no doubt other new things are under way that no one is talking about yet.
Medbery says the round will be used to expand the New Orleans-based Kickboard team and invest further into product development, particularly better dashboards for teachers that offer new and unique ways of visualizing student performance.
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But at Ford, new product development marketing manager Lew Echlin says the company plans to shrink the number of free-floating options available on its Focus compact car lineup for the 2013 model year because the numbers say it makes sense.
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Aside from the next big thing in timepieces, Gates unveiled another new product under development, called Media2Go, which is close to what Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) should have announced at its own show earlier in the week.
The Bournville so called 'Centre of Excellence' will work on new product development for brands such as Cadbury Dairy Milk, Toblerone, Green and Black's and Suchard.
Tim Fritzley of Intune Networks said the Belfast research and development centre would "develop key subsystems of our new product line".
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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To get new models in showrooms faster, Ford is adopting many of the product-development processes used by its nimbler Japanese partner, Mazda (where Fields fashioned a successful turnaround earlier in the decade).
Scenario development helps them to understand what the future can be like, and drive their product development toward creating new markets with more customers, more unit sales, higher revenues and improved cash flow.
"Sprint and RIM have been strong partners for more than a dozen years, and we have an extremely loyal base of BlackBerry customers who will appreciate the features of the new BlackBerry 10 platform, " said David Owens, vice president-Product Development, Sprint.
Our customers need to be agile so they can not only stay ahead of the competition, but also be able to quickly change the underlying behavior and logic of their strategic business systems in customer service, new product development and marketing.
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Development logs have long been where the first glimpse of a new Apple product appears, so this is not the least bit unusual.
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