Sentences with phrase «business by design»

Building new business by design rather than choice form a major focus of our environment.

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Not exact matches

Bourquin and Taverna started the business as a consultancy, travelling widely — Morocco, Trinidad, the Bahamas and that highway in Colombia — to fix solar lighting systems designed by other manufacturers.

The most efficient accounting systems - perfect for that particular business - have been designed by experts in the field.

Steps from Venice Beach's boardwalk is the office of business software startup Gem, recently redesigned by interior design firm Homepolish.

Strategic branding and creative agency Design Coup cut its fee roughly in half for coffee company Thrive Farmers, because it was so impressed by the startup's business model.

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Dropbox, Uber, Erin Condren Design, Eat Purely and others have successfully used referral incentives to build their businesses by offering both their existing and new customers an incentive for sharing their products and services with the people they know.

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The fact that trust is crucial in markets is evidenced by the fact that businesses have come up with such a dizzying array of mechanisms designed to generate trust — everything from brands (which carry reputations) through to warranties, return policies, endorsements and third - party guarantors.

Companies like JobBliss, which recently launched its service by invitation, account for just 3 % of the $ 270 - billion recruitment market today, but stand to grow as businesses outsource tasks like human resources, marketing, coding and design.

Private health exchanges abide by the Affordable Care Act and are designed to minimize your business» expenses while still complying with federal requirements for individuals to have health insurance.

the Obama Administration announced plans to implement another Small Business Administration program created by the February stimulus, this one designed to give firms behind on their loans a little breathing room.

At Virgin, we've dipped a toe in the water (excuse the pun) through our Green Fund, by backing Seven Seas Water, a desalination business that designs, constructs, installs and operates water plants across the Caribbean and the Americas.

Play a role in the customer perspective at every step by making sure the business and product use accessible language at each stage of building, designing, improving, selling and revising.

In business, we have a terrible tradition going back at least as far as Frederick Taylor (yes, the «Taylorism» Taylor) that jobs are things done by employees, but designed by their so - called superiors.

They started The Bucketlist Bombshells, a company that helps millennial women build online businesses while traveling the world, by providing online courses that teach skills like website design and digital marketing.

Unlike most software companies where day - to - day and detailed product decisions are made by product managers with business backgrounds, Mark Zuckerberg's design team is his imperial guard.

Through her organization, Colombino has been working to improve the lives of those most affected by the earthquake by creating and incubating a Haitian business and corresponding fashion brand, Deux Mains Designs.

One thing they have in common: They share our belief that business is always better by design.

Solutions are now available (including Watson Analytics developed by my company, IBM) that are designed not only for data scientists and analysts but for every business professional who uses data.

CEO Brian Krzanich has been building Intel's business as a chip maker for hire, printing up chips designed by other companies at its cutting - edge foundries, instead of using the factories exclusively for its own designs.

To compete, chains like Applebee's have attempted to copy fast - casual competitors by updating restaurant designs and building out their lunch and takeout businesses.

Felled by a flawed business design, Lisn is now interred alongside SpoonRocket, Homejoy, NastyGal and many more once - promising peers.

That's according to Thatcher Spring, founder and CEO of San Francisco - based GearLaunch, a $ 100 million e-commerce platform that enables people around the world to own and operate their own online merchandise business by providing tools for design, production, storefronts, marketing and customer service.

The fact that there are now aggregator sites and apps such as Yipit.com designed to rope together all the deals offered by all the sites in any one city or neighbourhood illustrates the commodification of the business.

But surprisingly, as Tom Gaglardi told Canadian Business managing editor Michael McCullough, Northland's leap to the big leagues was not so much by design as due to a fortuitous series of circumstances.

Its task would be less to design and implement top - down solutions than to solicit, support, evaluate, and scale up innovative strategies by tapping into ideas developed by state and local governments, businesses, and non-profit institutions.

For example, design competitions run by TopCoder provided businesses development work for as little as 25 percent of the cost of the traditional methods.

And the day after the interview, the House passed the JOBS Act, designed to increase small businesses» access to capital, by a next - to - unanimous bipartisan vote.

Filed in an office PC, the billing data can then be analyzed by yet another proprietary component designed for small - business savings: telecommunications - management software.

There are few faster or more profitable ways to grow your business than by licensing patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, and other intellectual property to others.

The specific metrics that are needed will differ by business, but the tips above will help as you design the right ones for your situation.

Qualcomm's core business is designing the chip - based radios used by smartphones to connect to cellular networks, while a big part of Broadcom's business is designing chip - based Wi - Fi and Bluetooth radios.

In a September 2008 policy statement, the Fed said it often lets investors take double - digit bank stakes not designed to exert a «controlling influence,» but would review any resulting business relationships «case - by - case.»

I'm hoping to expand by hiring some design associates (salespeople) so that we can grow and take this business to the next level.

Upside pulls this all together and packages it in a mobile app that is designed to quickly show business travelers what their flexibility is worth by answering a few simple questions.

By identifying what elements these spaces have in common — such as temperature, lighting and furniture — the business can design an office where its employees actually want to work.

She was as impressed by Temple's business instincts, she says, as she was with her clothing designs and social outreach.

Some UK shell companies under offshore control may be skirting new rules which were designed to clamp down on corruption and tax evasion by forcing businesses to reveal their true owners, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows.

According to Gartner analysts Matt Cain and Chris Howard, digital dexterity is a business strategy designed to encourage workforce agility and engagement by promoting employee autonomy and building a more consumerized work environment.

Prominent Perth company director Tracey Horton is among a group of business leaders appointed to a new federal Treasury advisory council designed to replicate the discipline provided by a private sector governance board.

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Design thinking is a problem - solving methodology used by designers and business consultants to resolve complex issues.

It's hard to be sure, but Business Insider and Flight Club think Musk, the Tesla CEO, is wearing the Nike Lunar Flyknit HTM NRG, a shoe created by the renowned design trio of Hiroshi Fujiwara, Tinker Hatfield, and Mark Parker.

According to Kiker, companies can better adopt design thinking by providing a safe space for designers to work independently and creatively, and creating opportunities for collaboration by enabling both business and design teams to challenge each other, without a feeling of superiority on either side.

The search giant's investment arm recently put out a simple step - by - step guide to conducting a «design sprint» aimed at helping founders fine tune their businesses.