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.
B.
Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product
2.
Time: Reduce the time the customer must spend with the product
B. Improve wait times in the process
Reduce wait times in the process
Speed the process
Adapt product for faster technology
Use faster software
| No. | SIC | Year | Note |
| 1 | 7372 | 1997 | Data-mining software can sift through immense collections of customer, marketing, production, & financial data, and, using statistical & artificial-intelligence techniques, identify what's worth noting & what's not. |
| 2 | 7372 | 2004 | The web browser is the most frequently used category of software in the world. In recent years, the browser most people rely on–Microsoft's Internet Explorer–has been offering very few new features. Other smaller companies have been improving the Web browser. The numerous competitors to IE include integrated popup ad blockers, better privacy control, easier searching, and other enhancements. |
| 3 | 7382 | 2000 | Loronix Information makes closed-circuit surveillance systems and has recently decided to ditch the videocassette recorder in favor of a digital system. This would allow its customers to watch their businesses from computer workstations. |
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