For the same reason I described earlier, the benefits of a multiple manager approach, I think a flexible product screams out for that.
To have a fully flexible finished product, both parts of the display have to be flexible - the optical frontplane and the backplane, where transistors are - as well as the device's battery, the outer shell, the touchscreen and other components.
This, combined with the Tory legacy of more flexible labour and product markets, was supposed to prevent future booms and busts.
America's potential growth rate is higher than that of the euro zone and Japan, thanks largely to faster population growth and more flexible labour and product markets.
The intensifying competition from emerging economies makes flexible labour and product markets even more imperative, so as to speed up the shift from old industries to new ones.
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Lower trade barriers, more flexible work practices and deregulation of product markets have boosted productivity growth and put the economy on a better footing to withstand shocks.
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The product also boasts a flexible and innovative distribution channel, as Max Life has signed an agreement with a national retail chain, I-SERV, to let policyholders manage their policies at 12, 500 of its stores.
That's partly because Britain's labour and product markets are more flexible than many of its neighbours': the labour market has a safety valve in the form of the 1m workers who arrived from central and eastern Europe over the past four years and are now beginning to go home.
What no one was doing, Workman realized, was producing a cheap, flexible and easy-to-maintain product that can handle the less essential tiers of data on any kind of network.
Regus, a big provider of managed office space, has a product called Businessworld that offers cardholders flexible access to its facilities.
The firm's homegrown, flagship product is Flexcube, an acronym for flexible and comprehensive universal banking environment.
If the effort succeeds, the sheets would be the first flexible and scalable thin sheet-like electrostatic storage product available today.
At the TED conference this week, Jawbone CEO and cofounder Hosain Rahman unveiled a new product called UP, a handsome-looking flexible bracelet packed with vibration and motion sensors and wireless radio chips.
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In the physical world, megastores such as Wal-Mart thrive on high volume, deep discounts and speedy, flexible supply chains that allow them to change prices and product mix on a daily basis.
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Digital tools make product design and manufacturing easier, cheaper and more flexible.
The company's biggest problem has been its flexible-packaging business, the smallest of the three main product groups, which has been hit by fierce competition in Europe and by poor management.
As if to prove his point, Ballmer also welcomed onstage program manager Janet Galore, who gave brief demos of some Microsoft product prototypes, including a tabletop-like touch screen and a flexible, wafer-thin digital screen you can roll up like a piece of paper.
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Company spokesman Oscar Suris said Martens' departure would not affect Ford's product pipeline, nor the firm's desire to build products in flexible manufacturing facilities.
Codespear's product is somewhat unique in that it is primarily software-based and has somewhat more flexible requirements than other gateways.
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