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.
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Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product
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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
Reduce space required for product
| No. | SIC | Year | Note |
| 1 | 3571 | 1996 | Hitachi, which only had 7% IBM-compatible mainframe share in 1995, has increased its shipments due to new technology it created allowing faster, more compact machines requiring relatively low power. |
| 2 | 3571 | 2000 | The server units of Compaq and IBM have surged 40% each in the past six months as they've catered to the strong market for Net-linked servers. That market is sizzling largely due to new encyclopedia-sized servers that can be stacked efficiently in Web hosting centers. |
| 3 | 3571 | 2004 | Blade servers are super thin devices that plug into a larger chassis framework, optimizing space and power. |
| 4 | 3694 | 1987 | Lasa has a new chip-making system that pares the turnaround time for prototype chips to an hour or less. The system is totally automated & doesn't need a clean room because it is self-contained. |
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