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

1.
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

Capital costs

Make product backward compatible with earlier versions

No. SIC Year Note
1 3575 1990 Apple's new operating system, System 7, is late coming out, mainly because of a delay in making it backwards compatible. System 7 helps Macs communicate with different kinds of computers.

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