Or seeing that the core competitive advantage is going to disappear and thus just sweating the incumbent position?
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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.
Summary: The Gartner-Forbes 2012 Board of Directors Survey, which was conducted in the first quarter of 2012 largely in the U.S. and the U.K., shows that board directors are prioritizing customers, core competencies and competitive advantage.
Turkey, trading at just 10 times earnings, is a fast-rising economic power, with a core of internationally competitive companies that are turning the youthful nation into an entrepreneurial hub, tapping cash-rich export markets in Russia and the Middle East while attracting billions of investments to boot.
The company said it had been divesting controlling stakes in businesses that it sees as non-core and non-competitive assets.
The NCAA improperly relied on that report and never identified a rules infraction "based on Sandusky's crimes, much less an infraction by Penn State that implicated the NCAA's jurisdiction and core mission of ensuring competitive balance, " the Paterno family report said.
It believes that independent agency system is its core strength and most important competitive advantage.
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Of course, you may have one or two specialists with the core capability that is your competitive advantage.
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The right reasons are its core capabilities, its sustainable competitive advantage.
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When they do, will RIM have added anything to this core asset that will keep them a competitive step ahead?
So are there any apartment REITs that build their strategies around a focused core of competence that leads to greater competitive advantage?
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Core business processes, and those that enable competitive differentiation, rise to the top of the list.
With the increasing strength in its core business of analog semiconductors, the exit from the highly competitive wireless market and shifting focus on embedded processors, we believe that TI can witness a revival in its business 2013 onward.
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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