You will often see
companies build design briefs based off of industry «standards», or what they perceive to be good design by other companies.
Not exact matches
For a
company as focused on aesthetics as Apple, it's unsurprising that Apple's lead designer, Jony Ive, would oversee the
design team for the
building along with acclaimed British architect Norman Foster.
Dutch housing
company De Alliantie asked
design firm Studioninedots to turn a mostly closed - off, concrete
building into an airy, open space.
Then I'll get out and work for a
company that
designs and
builds engines.
The gathering is intended to probe what
companies from Johnson & Johnson to 3M to Samsung — as well as every leading consulting firm across the globe — have already discovered: that smart, creative, and bold «
design thinking» is one of the most essential (if too - often - overlooked) pathways for
companies to
build better products, connect with customers, improve their collaborations, and make the day - to - day corporate processes that now drive most of us crazy less crazy - making in the future.
All of this goes into
designing and
building Casper's mattresses, which landed the
company $ 200 million in sales last year.
If you develop a new technology, says Dixon, rather than selling or licensing it to the existing
companies in that industry, consider
building «a complete, end - to - end product or service that bypasses» them — from
design to distribution.
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.
Facebook is
building a team to
design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology
companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chipmakers such as Intel (intc) and Qualcomm, according to job listings and people familiar with the matter.
Avista Capital Partners has formed a new
company to fund a portion of the equity required to
design and
build three 50,000 deadweight ton product carriers, which Seacor Holdings (NYSE: CKH) has contracted to
build at General Dynamic's National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. shipyard in San Diego.
Instead of the specialists sought by aerospace
companies, he encourages his staffers to remain generalists who can
design anything from a fuselage to a door handle and then go into the shop and
build it.
Industrial
companies make the pipes, pumps and valves used in water delivery systems, and they also help
design and
build projects.
In the business world,
companies use it to make hiring decisions, identify leadership potential among employees,
design training for specific employee needs, facilitate team
building, and help resolve conflicts between employees.
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.
Fortunately, the
companies that
build the vaults and the safe deposit boxes
designed them to be resistant to fire, flood, explosions, earthquakes and severe heat.
Kodak, the once iconic camera
company, is licensing its brand to Spotlite, which
builds computers
designed to mine bitcoin, for a new line of bitcoin - mining machines that they plan to rent to the public for thousands of dollars.
When other
companies imitate our product, it not only undermines the creativity that goes into
designing it, but more importantly, our mission; we're
building something much bigger than ourselves, and we're proud of it.
The
company builds its own storage hardware to facilitate that and has even made the
design specifications available to anyone who wants to
build their own.
«There's no way that a Web -
design company could
build a site that does what Yahoo Store does, at least not for less than $ 100,000.»
The
company achieves this in large part by beginning the
design of every product with a low price in mind, and by
building its furniture using low - cost medium - density fiberboard (MDF), which the
company purchases in large volumes.
«We
design and
build our bikes so they can be ridden hard every day, and everything we
design is done with an upgrade mentality,» said Eddie Johnson, the
company's Head of Sales and Development.
Available now, the update allows users «to easily and reliably
build, refine, preview, prepare and print 3 - D
designs, setting the stage for explosive growth in the 3 - D printing market,» the
company said.
In order to
build up the private sector as a means for fighting government health care reform, AMA leaders
designed the insurance
company model.
But Pettis, a 38 - year - old former Seattle art teacher, is a man on a mission to put his
company's manufacturing kits on every desktop so users can
build their own 3 - D printers to create colorful plastic models of objects that they
design or download from the web.
Airbnb's new Dublin headquarters,
built inside an abandoned warehouse, is the first office the
company has
designed from scratch.
However, its acquisition of the Chicago - based user
design and app
building company is a hat - tip to the need for a well -
designed customer experience, which has fueled acquisitions completed in recent years by other large
companies.
In these partnerships, Intel provides chips and
designs to the
companies before they are publicly available, and often
builds specialized equipment for each business.
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Design Awards, our annual recognition of entrepreneurs using
design to build great companies, in the «Most Entrepreneurial Design Studio» cat
design to
build great
companies, in the «Most Entrepreneurial
Design Studio» cat
Design Studio» category.
The founder and self - described «SHE - E-O» of Thinx has
built a
company around breaking taboos, starting with her very product — an underwear
designed to replace feminine hygiene supplies.
Additionally, Intel faces the potential threat of these
companies designing their own chips, as in the case of Google, which
built a custom chip for machine learning to which it rents business customers access.
Recent Projects: research on how to
design an incinerator to avoid chemical reactions (two and a half hours, $ 100); history of a bill on child custody; helping a small
company build a corporate library.
Bavor said that Google is working with the computer chip
company Qualcomm to create a
design that other manufacturers can use to
build their own versions.
After the two
designed their breakthrough invention — a router that connects computer networks — and spent six years
building the
company, Lerner was fired by its board of directors in 1990, the same year Cisco went public.
At the Stanford Venture Studio, students who apply to be residents are using the space to
design and
build companies.
«That conservatism has been present through my entire career,» says McNally, now the president of Laval, Que., firm Équipement d'emballage MMC (a.k.a., MMC Packaging), which
designs and
builds automated machinery for
companies that manufacture plastic caps and lids for anything from food products, to pharmaceuticals, to agricultural chemicals.
Oshkosh Corporation is an American industrial
company based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that
designs and
builds specialty trucks, military vehicles, truck bodies, airport fire apparatus and access equipment.
At roughly the same time, Microsoft, along with Facebook (fb), Google (goog), Amazon (amzn), and other Web - based
companies which were gearing up their own massive data centers, started
designing their own servers, and switching to hardware
built by contract manufacturers.
Two years later, Cerner became such a believer in the concept that it jumped into the business of
designing,
building and running those clinics for other
companies.
«People want to know where things are in relation to them when they're not at their desks,» says Michael Nova, founder and CEO of Kiyon, a La Jolla, California,
company that has developed wireless network technology
designed to overcome the spotty coverage of conventional wireless networks inside
buildings.
«Employees» behavior inside a space really affects performance metrics,» says Brad Pease, a Seattle - based architect and director of signature
buildings for Paladino and
Company, a sustainable
design consultancy.
Last month, the
company announced the
design of the world's first «co-created» military vehicle, which is being
built for combat reconnaissance and combat delivery and evacuation.
They attribute the sticker shock to two factors: first, there is a proliferation of Web -
design freelancers and moonlighters who offer their services at bargain prices on job exchanges like eLance.com; second, some huge
companies have run ad campaigns claiming they can
build a legit Web presence for a low starting cost.
The
companies in the Kensho Space Index
design and
build rockets, satellites, launch vehicles and their systems.
Instead of buying into the «Moses myth» — venerating a small cluster of genius individuals with the power to part waters —
companies can tap on
design thinking to systematically
build a bridge, according to University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Jeanne Liedtka, «It's not one or the other — you can do both.»
Mukesh Vidyasagar, a founder of Cappsure It, which sells software that allows landscapers to track field crews» activities in real time, hired a marketing consultant with online
design experience to map out an upgraded version of his
company's site, which had been
built with Wix.
In The Information article, Magic Leap is said to use cumbersome equipment in its demonstrations that is at odds with the elegant
design of the sunglasses - like product the
company said it intends to
build.
That's what Ruby Receptionists is
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The San Rafael, Calif.,
company's AutoCAD
design software is used by designers the world over to model everything from office furniture to
buildings to aircraft components.
Palmer went on to
build a sprawling business empire: at one time his name was attached to a golf course
design outfit, auto dealerships, a golf equipment
company, two golf clubs, an aviation
company and a clothing contract with Sears.
Before joining Khan Academy, he
designed and
built software at
companies such as Apple, TestFlight and Mobify.