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Build & manage systems
and facilities for high
volume repetitive
tasks.
ID, attract and build
relationships with customers.
Conceive of attractive
new products & services
and commercialize
them.
Product
Innovation
Operational
Excellence
Customer
Intimacy
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Focus: invention, product development,
and market exploitation
Product Leadership
Innovation
Knowledge-
Management
Collaboration
• Providing products / services that
continually redefine the state of the art.
• Kill their babies.
• Key core competencies are innovation
and quality control.
• Strive to be the best.
• R&D & talent management.
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• Total solution, not just a product or
service.
• Focus on what the customer wants, not
what the market wants.
• Cultivate relationships, not one time
transactions.
• Specialize in satisfying unique needs.
• Customer needs trump operating
systems and processes.
• Go the extra mile.
Customer Intimacy
Focus: total solution development, results
management and relationship management
Relationship
Management
Knowledge
Management
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• Low cost offer (blend of high convenience
and low price).
• Broad market focus.
• Not product / service innovator; instead
delivery innovators.
• Do not cultivate 1:1 customer relationships.
• Execute extraordinarily well.
Operational Excellence
Focus: product supply and basic service,
streamlined to minimize cost and provide hassle-
free service.
Quality
Cost
Speed
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While productivity is a goal, originality
and quality are the goals.
Creative
interactions
Quality
management
Retaining & hiring the
best
Knowledge
management
Push decisions down to the
lab
Employee
centered
Product Leadership Example
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It’s all about the total solution and
the customer relationship.
Security
monitoring
System
maintenance
Cost
managementMobile strategy Maintenance &
support
Network management Redundanc
y
Planning new
apps.
Customer Intimacy Example