Jani identifies a macro trend driving the regional transformation: the increased commoditization of technology.
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It means that there is a curious type of commoditization going on among knowledge workers.
Another 1990s strategy was to build services around product to protect it from commoditization.
The point here is that commoditization of a channel initially swings the pendulum toward broad-based, anyone-can-do-it material.
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Anyway, I thought we were far far away from hitting that level of commoditization in the tablet market.
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The results were often commoditization, price competition, little true innovation, slow organic growth, and no clear competitive advantage.
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His new website attempts to bring commoditization to the tooth world by allowing customers to comparison shop for services.
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Two things happened in the cell phone market with the onslaught of commoditization.
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We expect the decline to continue with ongoing commoditization of notebooks and competition from cheaper netbooks and tablets like the iPad.
While companies try to capitalize on the feature-richness, efficiency, or material quality of their products, increasing competition pushes existing products towards commoditization.
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Motorola Disease sets in when Finance takes charge, pushing companies to chase existing markets even if the pursuit leads to slow commoditization.
We expect commoditization of smartphones, reduction in mobile phone input costs, and competition with GSM phones to push down CDMA phone prices further.
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This has not only enabled them to gain market share at the expense of smaller carriers but also helped them avoid commoditization of their services.
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Startups like Wallaby are trading on this very commoditization of credit.
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The coming commoditization of live broadcasting will follow the same path.
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As people have ever greater choices about with whom they want to do business, building trust with your customers is the surest path away from commoditization.
American middle class families are gouged by high health costs, high motoring costs, high communications costs and companies escaping commoditization by (quite legitimately) inflating their brand proposition.
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Basu points out that Creative and Aztech first faced the problem of commoditization of their sound card business, then had disastrous forays into the CD-ROM manufacturing business.
But perhaps the biggest boost has come from the industry's commoditization of risk into parcels that can be sold to investors no matter what their appetite for uncertainty.
We used to own Motorola but sold it about a year and a half ago when the commoditization of the cellphone industry had become much clearer to me.
Fiorina had many of the right ideas, and her call to the HP faithful was prescient, warning of the dire threat posed by the Internet, commoditization and nascent offshore rivals.
Apple somewhat insulates itself from that type of commoditization.
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"Despite huge and growing demand for Internet access services, increasing competition and commoditization of Internet access faced in each western European market is forcing ISPs to lower their prices, " said the statement.
We estimate both tablet and desktop prices will decrease going forward due to increasing commoditization, but the decline for desktops will be accelerated by slowing demand and cannibalization from competing devices like notebooks and tablets.
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Pay attention to the market trends for the companies in your portfolio and make sure that they have strong, effective responses to market shrinkage or product commoditization or your investment is ultimately what will shrink in value.
While the retail market is open to the vagaries of high competition and eventual commoditization of the market, enterprises generally enter into multi-year contracts and are therefore less prone to changing vendors as often as retail buyers do.
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