"When you really analyze it, you don't want the creative person to be more customer-oriented, " Austin says.
Research has shown that employees who score highly on emotional and social intelligence tests are more likely to display customer-oriented and empathetic behaviors.
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Combined with a new, streamlined organization, a substantially improved cost base, a strengthened capital structure, and a more customer-oriented culture, we have all the right measures in place to create shareholder value going forward.
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And now, China's media strategy in Africa has taken a step further by providing customer-oriented news offerings and poaching some of the best journalistic talents to bring African news to the continent and to the world.
For instance, companies are moving away from large functional departments where workers perform uniform tasks, and towards smaller, customer-oriented teams, where people frequently cover for each other and need to be able to perform many different tasks.
Instead it adopted a radically different way of managing work: it implemented a set of agile, customer-driven, outcome-oriented, iterative management practices.
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For CIOs, the answer is simple not easy, but simple: they need to begin rapidly withdrawing themselves and their business-technology teams from the integration business and begin devoting more and more of their time to growth-oriented and customer-centric innovation.
First, they shocked their value-oriented customer base with whopping, out-of-nowhere 60% price increase.
In addition, management has worked hard to develop private label fashion merchandise that will appeal to a more value-oriented customer.
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The combination of these two will create a very effective funnel for brand advertisers, Elowitz argues, by enabling them to combine broad brand-level messages with much more granular customer oriented ones.
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S. Kyoritsu Securities, and he intends to take the same client-oriented approach: higher returns, more disclosure and greater customer participation.
Its main customer, the French army, would prefer a vehicle that was more combat-oriented than a taxi.
The company reported its youth-oriented brand, Hi, saw an 8% decline in outgoing SMS or text messages per customer in the first three months of this year compared with the first quarter of 2010.
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