How much time was devoted to understanding customers better or to leveraging that customer knowledge in new ways to drive business success?

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Some CIOs and CTOs are capable of leveraging their experience, knowledge and skills in technologies or systems into the creation and leadership of companies.

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Linaro engineers, leveraging their extensive embedded knowledge, will contribute to a wide range of open source projects covering areas such as tools, kernel, graphics and boot code.

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Leveraging good research that has already created a knowledge base does just that.

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This would entail effectively using the networks the school builds into the program experience, learning from their current cohort, leveraging the alumni network and tapping into the knowledge of faculty.

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