Time and again, we see the same scenes the world over when Apple launches a new product.
Gillette, boasts Al Zeien, the company's 68-year-old chairman, launches a new product only when it has made a genuine technical advance.
Still, due to new product launches and a resurgence of old technology names, both Microsoft and IBM have found life as the rules have changed.
Rather than simply looking at new product launches as a means to determine bonuses and career trajectories, they need to judge individuals on how effective they and their teams are at gleaning knowledge from the past and applying it to the future.
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Tougher to quantify are the botched growth strategies, new product launches or major marketing initiatives that come with a struggling new leader.
In the North American market, Coca-Cola has recently benefited from a number of new product launches.
But McIlroy and Nike were just the highest profile story amid a slew of new product launches from all the major golf manufacturers in January.
Expect a flurry of product launches, including the expected debut on Wednesday afternoon of a new Motorola Mobility (MMI) tablet based on a coming new version of Android called Honeycomb. (That one is already generating some buzz.) Not scheduled for formal tablet focused press events, somewhat surprisingly: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which is working on Palm-based tablets, and Research In Motion (RIMM), which is nearing the launch of its PlayBook tablet.
Nearterm might be a nice play because of these new product launches, but EBITDA at 1.7% is poor in our view.
These might be blogs or news items that reference the word innovation, but might equally be references to new product launches, or negative references to a product or brand being boring.
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That sounds like Samsung is holding back a big announcement for the Fall, when new Apple product launches are due.
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In a research note to clients Monday, Credit Suisse First Boston noted that Delphi's bankruptcy, unlike past filings of most suppliers, wasn't spurred by a cyclical cash crunch that prevented the company from investing in new product launches.
The company also expects gross profit rate to decline at a rate similar to that experienced last quarter, owing to investments in new product launches.
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As Android is free, and the current number 2, iOS, is not even available for licensing, any of the Android makers who launches product on other platforms migrates to a tiny system which has under 4% sales, and for any new platform, even less in installed base.
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