After a long development cycle and a marketing blitz, Irrational Games will have ambitious sales targets.
The customer development process provided us with keen insight early in our product development cycle.
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But with a low-cost structure and a quick development cycle, Socialbakers can be a big winner.
For much of the development cycle, he thought of the Windows 8 app as a management tool.
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Additionally, the development cycle promises a speedy release when consoles normally take years and years to develop.
Once ramped up, that window should come down to the current two year development cycle of current consoles.
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As a standalone title, it will be following an iterative, Minecraft-style development cycle.
That enables a faster development cycle at 50% lower cost, according to HP.
That 10-15-year product development cycle john2011 alludes to still poses problems to speedy financial analysis and decision-making of this particular industry.
Samsung, and competitors like HTC, have reduced the product development cycle to 12 months and Apple simply is not ready for it.
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Although UFC may not warrant a new game every year (UFC 3 has had a two-year development cycle), the game franchise is strong.
Stellar references, an impeccable record of customer service and an active development cycle with new features constantly in the pipeline are a must.
New restrictions from the FDA will likely have the unintended effect of slowing or halting the development cycle of these hardware fixes.
Before you go about firing people and changing the management, you have to look at the development cycle and what the shows coming in look like.
"Our product-development cycle has gone from 240 weeks to 24 weeks, and we can lay out a national network in 6 to 8 weeks, " Chandran says.
The changes will allow Ford to cut 8 to 14 months from its vehicle-development cycle, says Derrick Kuzak, Ford's new product development chief for the Americas.
Here, shortening the period to five years would help by encouraging partners to make their investments early in the development cycle, when the cash may do the most good.
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Early adopters will pay less and get to see the game evolve over the course of the development cycle, though the mod will be up and running throughout the process.
At some point early on in the development cycle, Microsoft split from its partnership with PrimeSense, the company that provided the IP for the first Kinect, in order to go it alone.
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The Lean Startup approach essentially attempts to help entrepreneurs identify and test their key hypotheses about a business by radically shortening the development cycle using what Eric has labeled a minimum viable product.
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For instance, game-making is iterative: it is possible to market-test a game and then modify it, and to do so repeatedly during the game's development cycle something that is not really possible with a film.
The S3 had an 18 month development cycle.
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With the billions of dollars his firm spends on research and on equipping its factories not to mention a five-year product-development cycle he suggests it would be foolish to open up and allow rivals to steal its edge.
Having visibility into and control of products while they are in digital form allows companies to make decisions that have maximum impact on the cost to design, source and retire products earlier in the product development cycle.
While Huber knew next to nothing about wireless technology when he took on Project Beacon, he did know that any successful wireless product-development cycle would have to move much, much faster than the usual automotive life cycle.
Thanks to supply-chain technology and a very good CIO, Ralph Szygenda, General Motors was able to shrink the development cycle of a new Chevy car or truck from 60 months to 24--with 18 just around the corner.
The long development cycle took its toll, and by the time it was released, it was already beginning to feel dated, like too much of a clone of a the game they were trying to compete with.
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You have to be fully aware that, at the end of the development cycle, your first game is one of many to come, so ensure that you have the necessary leadership and management expertise on your team to move the studio forward.
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"I would think that developers would want to look at a lot of these other platforms, like the Palm Pre, because they would still be so early on in the development cycle that they could get their app out there, " Siegler said.
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