Second, in the defense and intelligence communities almost all of the mission models look like that of an OEM supplier -- meaning there are multiple layers of customers in the value chain.
For Autodesk, the acquisition could also help unlock a new layer of customers, the subcontractors, who typically use its software through the contractors, not of their own initiative.
For instance, drawing upon analytic models, predictive algorithms, apps and big data, detailed insights can emerge through computerized analysis of layers of data about customers' past buying history, their demographics by neighborhood and their interests by age, gender, education or profession.
Reform began by adjusting the menus, laying off layers of managers, talking to customers, adjusting hours of operation, meeting weekly with its union, and meeting regularly with faculty.
He saw how all those layers of corporate training and customer-service jargon separate workers like him from the human reality of what they do.
In the second layer we lose the exact geometries of customer sites and power lines.
In attempts to redefine retention marketing, marketers are turning to data science to help (1) identify layers of social graphs throughout their customer base, (2) understand current and predicted impacts of those social graphs, and (3) translate those insights from abstract to action.
Our framework consists of five interacting layers: (1) Customer values, needs and wants; (2) Experiential Marketing Strategy; (3) Customer Experience Stages; (4) Accumulated Customer Experience (5) Customer Behavior Change.
Beyond these are the indirect costs of burdening employees with extra work and driving away customers with layers of passwords and other protections.
They now were exposed to layers of price risk and became customers for financial hedges.
"You shape, you shape, you shape," said a stylist on staff named Frank, sternly tucking layers of tulle around one immobilized young customer as if filling a croissant.
