High performance is traditionally measured against key business imperatives including competitive differentiation, sales, attracting and retaining talent, operational efficiency, return on investment and profitability.
The company has struggled to keep margins competitive despite stagnant sales.
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The Nike ad may be offensive to those who don't quite understand sports culture, or work in extremely competitive environments such as sales, or Wall Street, and even politics.
But the company emphasized that it will be conserving the competitive advantage of its giant sales force.
Credit that to running a tight ship: Payroll is just 8.5% of sales, very competitive within the industry.
Croce's comeback plan relies on competitive pricing, a bigger sales force (up 40% to 130 people since 1999) and, most critical of all, new stent designs.
Ford is also trying to drive car sales by offering competitive pricing and incentives such as cash rebates and zero-percent financing to win over customers from other competitors such as Toyota.
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Doing the right thing also happens to boost sales and create a competitive advantage, the CEOs said.
The events and their aura of all-out toughness hold special appeal to people in competitive fields like financial services and sales.
Sales jobs are extremely competitive, she says, especially in the tech industry.
However, this appears to be driven more by longer sales cycles as opposed to competitive displacements.
Making this data available could help consumer products companies get a better handle on how their sales compare to those of competitive suppliers.
For these reasons, some politicians fret that the Internet will put competitive pressure on them to keep their sales tax rates from getting too high.
They had dramatically lower costs and promoted the use of development standards such as the Capability Maturity Model, genericizing service sales, further transforming the competitive landscape.
The company has expressed some caution going forward, voicing concern that a more competitive pickup truck market could crimp ambitious sales goals for the Toyota Tundra.
These competitive ball field warriors are especially prone to sales pitches with more allure than a bank CD or balanced portfolio.
This stellar growth can be attributed to increasing sales of iPhone and iPad and competitive pricing of games, ebooks and other apps.
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Brand gives your salespeople a competitive edge in addition to price and gives sales and marketing a shared interest in the concept of brand.
"With the high-tier under pressure and mid-tier becoming more competitive, we may see a slowdown in their sales, " she says.
Can adding 50% more labor cost and 20% more material cost actually increase sales of a stagnating product in a highly competitive luxury market space?
In the midst of that, they are also acknowledging that they have a top priority to invest in IT (tied with sales for investment) and leverage IT for competitive advantage.
In addition to conventional marketing documents, those in sales and purchasing will be able to obtain competitive reviews, and prices, and configurations almost instantaneously by asking people on their network for input and feedback.
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He believes the consumer and competitive environment remains intensely challenging and will lead to identical store sales and profit margin challenges.
On the other hand, auto companies which have been successful in Indian markets have built cars keeping Indian consumers in mind i.e. a competitive price, a good mileage and a low after-sales cost.
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By making heavy operating investments into human resources, marketing, advertising, business development, and sales initiatives, the aggressive enterprise can create significant competitive separation during a time when many are pulling back on such expenditures.
The highly anticipated launch of GALAXY S III and upbeat sales of GALAXY Note, along with a more competitive average selling price (ASP) than the previous quarter, have cushioned an on-quarter operating loss brought on by the seasonably weak earnings of businesses in IT Solutions and Telecommunication Systems.
Moda is trying to gain a competitive advantage by using the advance information they glean from trunk show sales.
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The firm said the single most important factor cutting like-for-like sales had been a decision not to chase unprofitable sales in sectors such as computing, which are highly competitive.
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