Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer

Maintain Steps: Maintain steps include all activities required to keep the product in working order. These steps include the costs the customer incurs to diagnose and correct product problems.

B.
Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product

1.
Money – Reduce the money the customer uses with the product

b. Reduce the customer's spending on People, Purchases or Capital costs the customer uses with the product itself

People costs

Enable substitution of low-cost people for high-cost people

No. SIC Year Note
1 8051 2001 After American Healthways takes over diabetic care, more patients get more frequently tested for eye, foot, and cholesterol ailments. This has cut the total health care cost by 17%. "We spread the development costs over lots of health plans."

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