Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer
Use Steps: Use steps include all the customer's value added activities or the consumption of the product itself. These steps include all the costs the customer incurs in employing the product in its intended use.
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Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product
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Money: Reduce the money the customer uses with the product. For more ideas on using pricing, please see the Improve/Pricing section of StrategyStreet.
B. Reduce the customer's spending on people, purchases or capital costs the customer uses with the product itself
Purchase costs used with the product itself
Reduce purchases of items used with the product itself
Use video conferencing
| No. | SIC | Year | Note |
| 1 | 3600 | 2000 | Videoconferencing is becoming popular with a lot of organizations as the Net can't yet handle the amounts of data necessary for online conferencing. It does however, allow slides and documents to link to desktops during audio conferences. |
| 2 | 4899 | 2003 | Polycom is working on making conferencing products easier to use, and that may help raise the overall adoption rate of conferencing technology. A more dispersed work force suggests a greater need for all kinds of at-a-distance conferencing. |
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