Even after what seems like a failure, an ability to quickly adapt is considered a key skill among founders.
Are you navigating rapid growth or turnaround where internal priorities are frequently shifting and the team is challenged to quickly adapt and stretch?
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It can quickly adapt to a rapidly shifting marketplace.
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If a company holds a small percentage of its market and that overall market shrinks, it will need to quickly adapt to the new market fundamentals and innovate to establish a stronger position.
The networks are very diverse, but the resilient ones are learning organizations that quickly adapt to changing conditions, operating in a virtual world of social media and hidden financial transactions where they present few tangible targets to defenders.
Hill said the ability to drill down into real-time point-of-sale (POS) data to make informed decisions and receive early warnings about stock-outs, promotion effectiveness, sales velocity, and external demand drivers means retailers can quickly adapt plans to enhance performance.
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We are committed to helping businesses connect with their customers: to help them quickly adapt their brands and how they engage with their customers in an Omni-channel environment that includes everything from the engagement you have with a customer at a retail store to having and tracking conversations on multiple social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
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Clinton moved quickly to adapt to the new conditions, keenly mindful of the fact that labor unions and environmental groups are crucial parts of the coalition that Al Gore hopes will take him to the White House.
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My thesis is that globalization pressures are accelerating and countries which adapt quickly will be the winners.
And because those systems cannot adapt quickly to changes in demand, companies overprovide.
Meanwhile, Warriors scrum-half Jonny Arr says his previous Championship experience has helped him adapt quickly to the league this season.
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Moreover, Buckley encourages cross-functional communication and shuns top-down information flow that he believes makes it hard for companies to adapt quickly.
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On the other hand, Japanese auto companies such as Nissan, which outmaneuvered an attempted union takeover in 1953, were able to adapt quickly to demand.
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They were unprepared for the response and had to adapt quickly.
But very quickly your eyes adapt, and the effect is breathtaking.
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By taking over the global smartphone industry, though Apple, has created two other phenomena that will sink Apple in turn, if it does not adapt quickly.
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The western tourism industry will need to adapt quickly and intelligently to the demands of Chinese visitors but the prize is huge for those who can manage it.
Indeed, with the arrival of big data, the speed of change, and the need to react and adapt quickly, agility has become paramount for CMOs charged with driving growth.
But business experts said Blockbuster's problems were all too similar to those hitting other retailers - failure to adapt quickly enough to a changing business environment and consumer habits.
But HFR could solve Hollywood's 3D problem by making it more palatable for audiences, especially younger ones who adapt quickly and are more likely to go to 3D films.
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Recent history suggests that Hong Kong's continuing prosperity is a result not of luck but of its people's ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances without any need for government guidance.
But business experts said Blockbuster's problems were all too similar to those hitting other retailers - a failure to adapt quickly enough to a changing business environment and consumer habits.
As an entrepreneurial nonprofit that operates at the intersection of media, human rights, and technology, we have learned to adapt quickly when opportunities surface because of new technology or advances in digital-media literacy.
Though he's a modest 5-foot-11 and 195 pounds, Parise also possesses enough tenacity and defensive conscientiousness that he would adapt quickly to the demanding style of play that Rangers coach John Tortorella favors.
With the ability to adapt quickly, embrace colleagues who can fill in your blind spots, and select an environment that meshes with your values and style, you can succeed no matter what changes roil the marketplace.
The eyes adapt quickly when going to the light emerging from a tunnel into the sun, say but going to the dark "requires the regeneration of photo pigments, and that takes some time to reach full dark-adaptation, " says Dr. Sheedy.
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But one could argue the real problem with the music industry was that it failed to adapt quickly enough to the changing way people were listening to music and it got behind listeners wants and needs instead of staying out in front.
Future vehicles equipped with this technology will be able to adapt more quickly to the software lifecycles of iPod touch and iPhone.
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We tend to adapt rather quickly to new privacy-invading technologies after all.
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