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
Reduce customer steps in the product process
Complete some of customer's steps with the product
Preparation steps
Eliminate unwanted components
| No. | SIC | Year | Note |
| 1 | 2000 | 1990 | By skinning and deboning chicken breasts, Holly Farms can charge $4.59 a pound for chicken, compared w/ 69 cents a pound for a whole fryer. |
| 2 | 3021 | 2000 | The introduction of new lines like Air Presto could speed Nike's rebound. Scheduled for release in June, the shoe pulls on like a sock and comes in "extra-extra small" to extra large, instead of traditional numbered sizes. |
| 3 | 7041 | 2004 | With the vacation home market booming, fractional plans target buyers who want the convenience of a full-featured second home, without the hassle of actually owning it. The fractional plans also lower the cost of access to exclusive areas. |
| 4 | 7372 | 1995 | Point Cast sells a $29.95 software package, called Journalist. The software serves as a searching tool for subscribers of either CompuServe or Prodigy. Journalist creates a newspaper layout to present the kinds of articles you have preselected. |
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