The need to remain competitive is pushing strategic acquirers to open their wallets.
By launching monster drives down the fairway, the golfer gains a strategic competitive advantage that results in the likelihood of winning.
Comcast Cable Chief Executive Neil Smit said at a conference last month that his company will work with Verizon Wireless to develop and integrate new products, giving Comcast "a very important strategic competitive advantage, " according to a transcript.
"Now it has become a competitive, demanding, strategic business, " he says.
There would have to be some real strategic-competitive value.
Dean Perry of West LB Securities Pacific in Tokyo thinks Orix is plenty strong financially to continue making strategic acquisitions and remain competitive.
These improvements, combined with our recent restructuring and strategic repositioning, enhance our competitive position in a very challenging environment.
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To stay competitive, Antenna has a fairly unusual strategic planning process.
At that point, major players in the defense sector will need to contemplate strategic moves that significantly change the competitive landscape.
The Chinese government certainly wants to create globally competitive firms and it is pushing some to secure strategic resources, like oil and metals, overseas.
On the other hand, an increasing number of executives say that sustainability is becoming a competitive necessity, and that it is on the strategic agenda of their corporation.
But without understating any of those difficult and strategic technology choices, the massive potential of sweeping Big Data initiatives are forcing CIOs to be fully capable business leaders who can collaborate with other leaders to map out the strategic vision and intent, and imagine some of the competitive disruptions that are likely to result.
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Economic factors were cited by 76% as an important driver for cloud adoption, bringing strategic benefits such as transforming their business models to gain a competitive advantage.
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Indeed, Marshall Ogarkov -- a preeminent Soviet strategic thinker -- has been calling for a leaner but more technologically competitive military for years.
These high-priority IT spending areas are core to our strategic focus and represent market segments where EMC has established leadership positions and competitive advantage.
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The Treasury Department and our colleagues comprising the President's Working Group on Financial Markets are addressing the current and strategic challenges, and are doing all we can to ensure high quality, competitive, and orderly capital markets.
Netflix has been exemplified for years for its unlimited time off policy, a strategic decision for the movie subscription service, which recently got much heat for its competitive workplace policy that rewards high achievers and fires the adequate.
Businesses need to determine the processes where they can drive strategic differentiation and then begin that automation process, Hurd said, adding that those slices of competitive advantage can differ from company to company and industry to industry: sometimes Customer Experience, sometimes procurement, sometimes supply chain or something else.
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