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Smart, Proportional, Simple: Things business can be certain about
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(Perspectives)
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... products into the new round hole; both would be fruitless. Instead, faced with the challenge of quickly rethinking their offers, businesses now seek new kinds of talent, more powerful tools, more sophisticated ...
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Created on 17 May 2012
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When price pressure is perceived
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(Perspectives)
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... more creative and simple but value-rich products and services. Of course, in an environment like this, traditional competition is often reduced simply by the right business response to the customer demand, ...
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Created on 09 November 2011
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3.
Bucket and rebucket
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(Practices)
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... in markets all over the world. But wherever they are, they are similar in that they all need lifting and someone to help them when they can't. (For many companies, their products act as a virtual meeting ...
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Created on 14 October 2011
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The Van Moment: or, Why products aren't valuable
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(Perspectives)
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It is a common mistake to assume that value is associated with products, especially in business to business markets. An example of this mistake is the interchangeable use of the terms supply-chain and ...
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Created on 12 October 2011
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Da Vinci's (Steve) Jobs
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(Prognostications)
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... products; he's given us new skills and new ways of thinking. He leaves us with tools that can help us to be happier, and more useful, and more cooperative, and more thoughtful, and more peaceful. Let's ...
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Created on 07 October 2011
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Index
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(Index)
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Set priority, tackle problems:
What new outcomes do our client's customers desire from the business relationship and from products and services?
What must change to gain preference?
How and ...
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Created on 12 September 2011
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Machine owners need help, who will give it?
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(Prognostications)
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When markets contract or slow or products mature, supply chains become less cooperative and more combative, fighting over price and power. Meanwhile, users need help, more than ever.
For the companies ...
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Created on 09 September 2011
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8.
Specifying consultants more powerful than ever
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(Perspectives)
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Leaders in the construction markets nurture relationships with and seek the support of contractors to install their products. This is a given. However, with the advent of new technologies, LEED, BREEAM, ...
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Created on 09 September 2011
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The time TO change is now, because the time OF change is now
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(Prognostications)
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... meet the new reality head on, seeing big problems not as threats, but great opportunities to thrive, in a finite world.
We're re-imagining everything: products, technologies, services, relationships, ...
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Created on 09 September 2011
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10.
Good, better, best segmentation
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(Practices)
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... for their business, through products that help them.
However, grouping customers based on behaviors is not the end-all. Real innovators are companies whose thinking leads customers to a new place. But ...
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Created on 09 September 2011
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BIM - The new bubble in construction
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(Prognostications)
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... trades building services to facility management, from decommissioning to recycling buildings and equipment. All the while, producing the cleanest, most reliable and most efficient products in the shortest ...
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Created on 09 September 2011
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12.
Can customers describe future technology?
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(Practices)
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... than another and why. (Enable change)
Over time, roughly-ready ideas are shaped into viable products, technologies, tools and services. If information flows freely between the groups, mistakes will ...
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Created on 08 September 2011
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13.
Our Process: radically better
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(Process)
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... The concept is simple and proven: listen for customer problems and respond with winning products, services and models.
We know that companies are running lean, and employees are often buried under too ...
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Created on 01 September 2011
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14.
Water: A finite economy
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(Perspectives)
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... and how they plan to use it.
Most work associated with water is in moving it around to meet demand, or to clean it more aggressively. Both processes use energy and machines and create waste byproducts ...
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Created on 23 August 2011
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15.
ITT
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(Homehighlights center)
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... and energy products. ...
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Created on 23 August 2011
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16.
ITT
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(Sample bottom center)
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... and energy products. ...
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Created on 23 August 2011