Henderson and the firm he created were pioneers in thinking about corporate strategy and competition.
He starts rocking, peppering them with questions that segue from the politics of their potential partners, the details of the technology, the potential competition and the broad strategy.
This is bringing the strategy shops into competition with the biggest players: the Big Four audit firms.
The strategy, execution and competition that mirrors the business world is a perfect fit for a natural seafarer.
Until top leadership positions are as routinely available to women as they are to men, freezing out the competition will remain a viable survival strategy.
He proposes that the core of strategy is defeating the competition.
If businesses don't evolve, they end up like Atari, Pan Am and Woolworth's, onetime industry leaders that crashed against the rocks of strategy, innovation and competition.
Such tendencies were confirmed, and even advocated, by the most famous business writer of the 20th Century, Michael Porter, who wrote that the very object of business strategy is to avoid competition.
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Besides Amazon, the strategy takes HP into new areas of competition with Microsoft, which has its own cloud services, and Oracle, where Hurd now works.
Ford Motor on Friday provided a grim outlook for the next couple of years as it unveiled details of an accelerated turnaround strategy in the face of tough global competition and shifting consumer tastes.
The best approach for investors is to find companies with a smart strategy or a niche to protect them from competition.
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Gates strategy had its intended effect--it blunted the competition and paved the way for the eventual runaway success of Windows 3.0.
The iPod Example: Contrary to its approach with the iPhone and iPad (so far), Apple was wildly successful with its iPod strategy of selling multiple form factors to crowd out the competition.
Even as changing times broadened the sport's base of paying customers from America's Eastern Seaboard, across North America and on to the other side of the Pacific, moving the business ahead has always been about one smart, overriding strategy--keeping the cartel going by squashing the competition in its tracks.
Simultaneous cooperation and competition with Microsoft has been at the heart of IBM's software strategy since its new beginning.
The strategy makes sense in the airline market where there is fierce competition and volatile energy prices make profit margins razor thin for many carriers.
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However, this strategy could backfire since RIM will be playing catch-up with competition if it introduces half-baked products into the market.
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But pursuing success through profligacy is a risky strategy, particularly as the bets are getting ever bigger and the competition more intense.
"It's a great thing for the marketplace to see competition around a great design, " said Rob Chandhok, who heads software strategy for chip maker Qualcomm Inc.
Plus, a margin umbrella now exists for competition that chooses to undercut your margin model with a more efficient customer acquisition strategy (such as giving the customer the money).
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Ironically, at the core of competitive strategy is deception, and Groupon holding out baits to entice the competition to promote the category while killing off the smaller players that are flanking it.
Unlike the competition, BBRY, in our opinion, lacks a compelling multi-screen device strategy as well as a content ecosystem and cloud strategy.
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Mr Varadkar said promoting competition among airlines serving the Irish market was at the heart of the government's aviation strategy.
Sweetwater isn't the first company to pin its hopes on leveraging ethanol, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that sound business strategy wasn't enough to seal the deal in this year's ICE competition.
Focusing on critical, differentiating capabilities--things that you do better than anyone else and that align with your innovation and overall business strategy--will give your company the coherence necessary to outperform and out-innovate the competition.
The object of strategy is to position the business in a place where the barriers are so high that there is little competition and excess profits are more or less guaranteed over long periods of time.
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Many investors have been concerned for some time that Groupon's customers are tiring of the deals it offers, and that it is facing more competition from other start-ups and from big firms such as Amazon and Google, who have been copying its strategy.
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