Sentences with phrase «for ideas for the company»

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The company wanted to take a more data - driven approach to pricing, because it needed a better idea of what the market would pay for equipment.

Qualtrics, which calls itself a customer - service experience management company, is built around the idea that immediate feedback makes for a better product.

What we're doing is flattening organizations: SoapBox lets all employees submit ideas for making or saving money, for changes they'd like to see in the company or for ways to improve the customer or employee experience.

One, it started out as a technology phenomenon: Silicon Valley, high - tech companies with the fruit - fly incubator for this idea.

The company objects particularly to the idea that sales were a motivating factor: «Only McKesson's Regulatory personnel have the authority to raise a customer's threshold limit, and the compensation for these personnel has never been based on revenue or profitability targets for sales of controlled substances,» a McKesson spokesperson commented.

But when he got the idea to start making Greek yogurt in the U.S., the company fixed the factory up and ran with it, and Ulukaya said he practially lived in the plant for five years to get Chobani off the ground.

Leader - Chivée is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, where I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2018.

In 2013, after hearing Kraft's idea for the world's first in - ear computing device, Lanman was ready to write a check and invest in the company.

As the Miami Herald reports, Ibanez got the idea for her company while chatting with a stranger one Saturday at the beauty salon.

Obviously, if not for my backers, my project, would not have been completed, I would not be writing this article, and most likely, my ReKixx company would still be floating around in the idea stage.

The SBA recommends that you project that status of your company for between three and five years into the future, though it's a good idea to outline your annual goals, too.

WHILE it's too early to gauge the long - term prospects of subscriber - based online DVD rental companies, the increasing number of new players entering the market suggests strong support for the idea.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

When she didn't find that company, she applied to Harvard Business School and started working on the idea for Stitch Fix during her second year there.

Hint: It's about the people, for the people, and by the people — and you can translate the big ideas to your much smaller company.

The distinction between «free from» the necessity to turn a profit and «non-profit» is important: These companies are not only willing to experiment with new ideas for delivering and managing care, they're eager to do so — whatever the time (and presumably, financial) investment might be.

His company's owners wouldn't go for the idea but they funded Schultz's retail chain and sold him their brand — Starbucks.

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson has apologized profusely for the incident, a major black eye for a company that paints itself as espousing progressive values and which famously caused a controversy in 2015 when it sought to foster discussions of racial matters between its baristas and customers, an idea it quickly dropped.

However, the best ideas are the ones that arise in response to a real situation, problem, or challenge, and for that you need employees who are constantly thinking of new ways to improve the company.

But I do worry about the message her pledge to take almost no time off sends about the value of maternity leave, and how it undermines recent efforts by US companies to offer and normalize the idea of longer parental leaves, for both moms and dads.

Idea you can steal: Empower a dedicated team (or, in the case of smaller companies, a key person) that's responsible and accountable for the success of your content marketing program.

(The company declined «for competitive reasons» to reveal when it plans to equip other outlets with such gadgetry, but the reality for the chain is that its dealers, who own their stores, have a long history of resisting new, and potentially costly, merchandising ideas from head office.)

By the company's name, you can probably guess iDoneThis might have a stake in advocating the idea, but the book makes a compelling case for why a done list beats a to - do list any day.

The idea was to highlight six areas of focus to drive growth: making innovation a «core Canadian value,» establishing nationwide scientific excellence, creating world - leading «clusters and partnerships,» growing Canadian companies, developing a digital - first economy, and making Canada a top location for foreign investment.

You see, Spiegel and Murphy were just college students in 2011 when they came up with the idea for Snap, the company formerly known as Snapchat.

You have the power as leader to create new and unique incentives for your sales reps, and to promote the idea that positive outcomes benefit everyone in your company.

It might be an idea for rental car companies themselves to take pictures of the before - and - after, instead of leaving the responsibility to the customer.

How This Ghostwriter Got the Idea for a $ 2.3 Million Company That Allows Aspiring Authors to Write Books in a Castle

Out of that drive for answers came the idea for Scherf's 12 - year - old company, PrioHealth, and a program called MeMoves, which uses music, patterns and movement to help teach children and adults like Rowan to calm their nerves and make connections.

These outcomes are important for a sound, collaborative company culture where employees feel safe contributing new ideas and trying out new approaches: Google, for instance, conducted a study that found employees who felt psychologically safe in their environments were less likely to leave, more likely to leverage a diverse skill set and more likely to be successful.

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Do you have a great idea for a new company?

The Pitch: «We host online competitions that allow companies to tap customers, employees, or external partners for ideas.

The trick is in deft brand management: The chain implants a clear idea of what each level of the company's hotels offers for customers.

The company came up with the idea after surveying 814 North American professionals, who largely said they didn't find their company's intranet helpful for this, and wished they could look for coworkers based on specific skills.

In fact, that's how I developed the idea for my company, RedZone.

Product developer Ryan Diez reveals how he gets in touch with companies that are looking for new product ideas.

The idea came in part from Alyssa O'Neal, who says in the video she is on the Seattle company's support team and has been with Gravity for two years and four months.

The idea for «Steep Thoughts» had been brewing for a while as the company was getting requests from customers who wanted more information about tea.

Weingarten cautions against equating R&D spending too closely with innovation, noting that many oil and gas companies fare poorly under such measurements because of Statistics Canada's criteria for research spending, but still frequently develop new methods and ideas.

Big Bang means getting to an idea or start - up company at the beginning, exchanging industrial - design services for equity at the garage or even the back - of - the - envelope stage.

A spokesperson for the company told Fortune that the idea began organically at a single location about four years ago, and it has since expanded to about 100 of the chain's nearly 2,000 Chick - fil - A restaurants.

You may know their startup story, too: how Alberto Perez, the company's creative force, and Alberto Perlman, the CEO, met at the urging of Perlman's mother to discuss Perez's idea for a business that made fitness fun.

After talking about their idea for a company with academic leaders, they were connected to Gordon Keller, a senior scientist at the University Health Network in Toronto.

It turns out Anomaly is hardly, well, anomalous when it comes to companies reaching outside their conventional talent pool for fresh perspective, new ideas, and skepticism about business as usual.

After a company has been in business for a few months or years, company leaders may realize their original, brilliant idea wasn't as great as they initially believed.

«If you are negotiating salary for a new job, it's a good idea to let the company name a number first.

My first idea, in 1995, was for companies to bring their customers together in a community.

So instead, Schab and his staff experimented with design possibilities and ended up with the idea of basing the company's logo around the initials FWI (for «FaxWatch Inc.»).

It's not a bad idea, if Twitter could figure out all the particulars — a big if for a company that hasn't proved especially adept at particulars.