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

A. Reduce steps the customer must use with the product

Bring products closer to the customer
Serve current customers with new products, saving customer purchase time and increasing your revenues
Add related products the current customers would buy

Operate or maintain main product

No. SIC Year Note
1 2900 2001 Evergreen Resources is one of a select group of exploration and production companies that own their own subsidiaries to service their wells. That lets Evergreen cheaply, and frequently test different methods for stimulating natural gas flow.
2 4800 2003 Big phone companies are racing to build Wi-Fi "hot spots" around Internet connections in cafes, hotels and airports. Phone companies, such as T-Mobile USA, the wireless carrier, hope hot spots will help sell subscriptions to their Wi-Fi services, as part of a cell phone plan.
3 7372 1997 Microsoft showing a preview copy of a software product that does many of the 'routing' functions of Cisco's hardware products. Software works with Windows NT operating system on a traditional PC.

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