Integrating collaboration software into the existing technology behind your enterprise can be a costly project.
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Company builds high-performance, all-electric sports car that most believe is impossible with existing technology.
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And that competition has forced these device makers to add appeal to existing technology.
In some cases, existing technology may even hinder team collaboration and rapid turnaround of service proposals.
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Commitment to the company's existing technology, product line, distribution system or customer base becomes a sacred cow.
Their businesses are not dependent on entrenched profit models that center on value extraction from existing technology.
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They had not just rested on their laurels, trying to make the most out of an existing technology.
Second, it hampers follow-on improvements by firms that implement an existing technology but build upon it as well.
Novasite is building on Applied Molecular Evolution's existing technology to make this kind of large-scale drug modification possible.
In 1984, I developed a very simple method to speed computers up by over 10, 000 times using existing technology.
The same existing technology is being used by some airports to track bags, instead of the often-unreliable barcode labels.
In addition to the share repurchase, the companies have also agreed to amend their existing technology and intellectual property licensing agreement.
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Existing technology like text-to-speech, voice command, Bluetooth hands-free calling and traffic services also helps alleviate driver distraction to avoid potentially dangerous situations.
And, despite Superbot's impressive morphing abilities, Shen said DARPA's vision of a liquid-like robot was still a long way beyond existing technology.
The temptation for them is to port existing technology into the cloud.
"I'm optimistic because we're reusing so much existing technology, " Mr Allen said.
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This idea is elegant as well as frugal: by reconfiguring existing technology it can potentially connect millions of people to the internet.
The second money-saver is to use existing technology in imaginative new ways.
Even producing from Angola's deep-water blocks stretches the limits of existing technology.
Using existing technology and applying it differently can also be a cheaper and easier way to get to market than "re-inventing the wheel".
This will create a unique opportunity for suppliers of alternative solutions to replace the existing technology base and drive change into the market.
Rather than focus on earth-shaking change, with the technological and market-adoption challenges it represents, they opted instead to tweak the existing technology and focus on efficiencies.
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Even with existing technology, the amount of information that a supply chain can provide changes the way in which companies deal with both shipments and inventory.
Ed Murphy of the American Petroleum Institute said he doubts whether the existing technology can even remove sulfur from diesel to the extent that the EPA wants.
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The White House should also require carriers and the FAA to employ as rapidly as possible existing technology that can unfailingly detect explosives hidden within any container.
Dr Venter reckons that even with existing technology, it should be possible to turn out ten times more fuel per hectare than can be garnered from maize.
The most basic service takes advantage of Nest's existing technology, which features an Auto-Away process that learns the users' schedules and adjusts temperatures when no one is home.
And in another exciting solar development, the company Solar3D just unveiled a prototype for a three-dimensional photovoltaic cell that could be dramatically more efficient than existing technology.
Solar is the fastest growing clean technology with existing technology.
In the 1980s, he claims, he developed the technology for Saswitch, the system that linked up ATMs across South Africa, which, because of international sanctions, couldn't import existing technology.
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