Articles about consumer products

From Mr. Smarty Pants To Soul Man - 8-15-2004

New Dell CEO Kevin Rollins can wow em with intelligence, but knows That's not enough to take the company to $60 billion in sales. That's why he's changing his tune.

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...we have servers and storers and desktops and consumer products, corporate products. We’ve bridged...

Fast Talk: The Old Economy Meets The New Economy - 12-1-2001

Fast Company recently convened a Fast Talk session in Chicago, bringing together some of the smartest people from some of the strongest and oldest brands in the world. Our objective: New insights on emerging best practices when it comes to custom...

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...CRAWFORD (global executive vice president, consumer products, retail, and distribution; Cap Gemini Ernst...

Ego Maniacs - 4-1-2007

Being the meek, humble creatures that we are, we sat down with author Mathew Hayward to discuss his book Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris Is Wrecking Companies and Ca...

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... it comes to designing, developing, and launching consumer products. But he’s gotten in trouble trying to...

The Killer App - Bar None - 8-1-2001

WHAT The bar code and scanning device WHEN Invented in 1949; patented in 1952; first used commercially in 1974 WHERE South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida WHO Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver The format...

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... UPC (Universal Product Code) symbols to identify consumer products. The Uniform Code Council, which issues the...