Analysts worry that high product development costs and rising commodities prices could lower profit margins for the next few quarters.
Rozembajgier is absolutely correct in his prediction that increasingly high product recall numbers will only additionally motivate intensified regulatory oversight.
Sinha also talks in the video above about why he particularly likes investing in enterprise startups: They have high product risk but lower market risk.
Its the classic recipe for success for a high technology product, boasts van Cuylenburg.
"We've always acknowledged that it's a high risk product, " says Tony Zook , head of AstraZeneca's U.S. operations.
"Waterford, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton are quintessentially classic brands that represent a high quality product which is steeped in history, " says Angus Martin, joint administrator, Deloitte.
For an airline with limited funds, distributing handheld tablets can cost significantly less than installing a built-in system, and it provides a high quality product with which customers are familiar.
If Apple decides that the iPhone is always going to be a high end product then those vast and currently underserved markets in the developing world are going to remain closed to them.
The thing is though, as I remarked back when we were all considering the Chinese iPad trademark, these things are a great deal cheaper before you launch a high selling product than afterwards.
However, as Boeing and the regulators continue to search for the offending malfunction, another specter haunts the public imagination: Can we trust any high-risk, truly high tech product that relies on parts made by who-knows-who doing who-knows-what, who-knows-where.
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"The vast majority of the Scottish salmon exported to the region is fresh salmon, underpinned by its increasing popularity for use in sushi-style foods, which further demonstrates that top chefs regard it as a premium and high quality product, " he added.
The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.
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He mentioned that LG offers two high-end product lines, one focused on premium design (Optimus G), the other on high-performance design (Optimus G Pro) and shared a diagram with us to illustrate this (after the break).
Some of that is because it traditionally has been positioned as more of a high-end product.
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This isn't tolerable in an age inwhich a high-tech product generation is often less than two years.
That's particularly true for an easy-to-hold, high-def product that might have made a nice little Skype device.
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Autonomy is a high priced enterprise product that Google is challenging through its Google Search Appliance.
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"This used to be a high-end product, " said one Quiznos franchisee in Florida.
Can you take a high-end product traditionally sold through interior designers and sell it through at-home parties, like Tupperware?
Leaf springs, its high-volume product that accounts for 67% of its auto parts sales, are fairly simple, low-capital-intensive suspension components.
The most high-end product, called the S250, provides up to 12 hours of light per day, and includes a cell phone charger.
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The next time someone comes calling with a complex, high-fee product, remind yourself before it's too late that there probably is a simpler, cheaper alternative.
Mitsubishi, Japan's only unprofitable car maker, has suffered a collapse in domestic sales following a series of high-profile product recalls over the past four years.
This not only decreased our bottom line, but we were also able to provide the same high-quality product to our clients at a much lower cost.
It's the setting for an experiment in commerce: Can you take a high-end product traditionally sold through interior designers and sell it through at-home parties like Tupperware?
The high standards of product testing required for the aerospace industry meant that the self-healing composites were not likely to be found in airplane construction any time soon.
But a company that has "a high-growth product or service that is fundamentally challenging an industry"--as Apple and its iPod did with music--will still deliver strong and predictable profits.
Since longer-maturity bonds offers higher yield in the current market, this kind of debt is mostly purchased by mutual funds, which want to offer a high-yield product to investors.
What we care about is that we, the consumers of your high-priced product from a company that has worked to earn user trust, have a product we can rely on.
Remember, however, there is nothing wrong with a company that offers a genuinely high-end product if it focuses its attention on those who can genuinely afford it and delivers as promised.
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