It doesn’t matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is – what matters is its relative ‘share of customer value’ in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.
There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people’s lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.
We will announce a new offering, where you can get a CA expert on your PC live, via video, on a range of topics about a product.
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.
People’s interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
Once a teen has been identified as part of the ‘target market,’ he knows he’s done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one’s own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.
It’s funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that’s so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
War and peace type products… cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I’m never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it’s much more fun to do that because you’re not doing the same thing over and over.
Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.
It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.
There’s always been product placement in Bond movies.
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.
You just have to make sure the model you’re working on does not undersell your product.
We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.
I’ve met people who didn’t even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
The funny thing about voice over is you can go in in sweatpants and have your hair all messed up, and no one will see you, and you can still deliver the same great product.
The one product I can’t live without is my mascara. I’m addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years – now it’s called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.
Brand is not a product, that’s for sure; it’s not one item. It’s an idea, it’s a theory, it’s a meaning, it’s how you carry yourself. It’s aspirational, it’s inspirational.
We can learn from IBM’s successful history that you don’t have to have the best product to become number one. You don’t even have to have a good product.
True excellence is a product of synergy.
There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And ‘Batman Begins’ was what I wanted to see.
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.
Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I’m a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I’d done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn’t have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.
The great thing about the Internet is you can launch a product, and within just a few hours, people will tell you what they think about it.
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.
If you’re building a social product, you’re still living in the last century if your product doesn’t work on Facebook.
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as ‘commoditization.’ What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It’s close to being functionally flawless – like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google’s home page.
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don’t know why anyone would want to be famous. I can’t imagine what need that would fill.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.
I think the best kind of virality is a product that people like so much that they just want to tell people about it.
I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn’t shape who I am or anything like that. I’m actually a product of my mom.
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
When you’re relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you’re doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.
The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.
First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, ‘How do I know when to launch my product?’ The answer, more often than not, should be: ‘Now!’
Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes.
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel… it is a product of both British and Stalin’s anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.
