The winners each year are innovations that uniquely fill unmet needs, spark a competitive response in the marketplace, exceed market expectations, achieve financial success, and improve people's lives.
It got me thinking that employers are so focused on meeting deadlines, hustling to meet customer expectations, achieving all the various success metrics to make investors or management happy -- that's it's easy to undermine the significance of the human beings powering all of this work.
Three factors broadly determine the patient's overall satisfaction following lower limb joint arthroplasty; meeting preoperative expectations, achieving satisfactory pain relief, and a satisfactory hospital experience.
The impact score ranged from 93% (13/14 expectations were achieved in Project 1) to 17% (2/12 expectations were achieved in Project 17).
In phase I III studies, these agents have exceeded expectations and achieved rates of response previously not thought possible.
It took a good amount of work, and we encountered significant challenges, but we met our expectations and achieved our goal.
Like Coca-Cola, which last week announced earnings that also beat analysts' expectations, PepsiCo achieved much of its progress with higher prices on its drinks.
In 1984, it was Gary Hart who beat expectations and achieved a moral victory in the caucuses, riding a media-fueled wave and upsetting Walter F. Mondale (the eventual Democratic nominee) in New Hampshire.
Nokia now estimates that Devices & Services has exceeded expectations and achieved underlying profitability in the fourth quarter 2012.
The fit to the model expectation was achieved.
David West, a once-promising left-handed pitching prospect who never achieved expectations, was promoted by the Boston Red Sox from Class AAA Pawtucket yesterday.
