Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer

Acquire Steps: Acquire steps include all activities the customer completes preceding the use or the consumption of the product. These steps include the customer's efforts needed for evaluation and acquisition of the product.

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

Provide for inexpensive addition to capacity

No. Year SIC Note
1 1997 3572 The Storagetek library is designed for Windows NT, NetWare and Unix environments. The library is scalable from one to four DLT drives and from 18 to 30 cartridge slots.
2 2001 3674 AMD, however, does have dreams of moving up-market in servers with a new family of Athlon descendants code-named SledgeHammer. Those chips will not only allow more processors to be combined, but also run new programs, such as large databases.

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