Products are fully commoditized as HDTVs, Blu-ray players, sound bars and computers are well into their technology life cycles.
The Law of Infinite and Zero sucks everything it touches into a vortex compacting life cycles and crushing margins.
Lululemon kept new colors and seasonal items on short life cycles to encourage customers to buy them at full price.
The traditional planning model also assumes that products and markets move through their life cycles in a sequential, orderly manner.
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One is the management culture in the modern Navy and the other is the protracted life cycles of modern aircraft carriers.
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Venerable operators like yours truly simultaneously are blessed and cursed by their historical memory of the life cycles for great growth companies.
In an era of hyper competition, shrinking product life cycles and globalization, enterprises are exploring everywhere for ways to boost innovation and performance.
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The other seldom-noticed factor working to protect carriers is the protracted life cycles associated with building and operating the biggest combat systems ever conceived.
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Which means the very durability that makes plastic so useful to humans also makes it incredibly harmful to all the natural life cycles in every ecosystem worldwide.
Stocks, like humans, have their life cycles, and they generally begin such cycles with the introduction of highly-innovative and popular new products that sell like gangbusters, as Apple first did with the iPod in 2001.
Some of the money obtained by selling licences to catch these squid has found its way back to researchers who are studying the squids' life cycles, so as to exploit them efficiently without exterminating them.
Management fashion (an academic term used neutrally, implying no judgment as to merit or durability) typically follows life cycles, with the distinction of fad or classic being determinable approximately five years after the fashion has gained momentum.
This approach to managing product life-cycles is arguably more effective than the desperate machinations of some pharmaceutical companies to spin out patents on their ageing stars.
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As a bonus, cloud computing offers DoD and Intelligence Community agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their life-cycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
The new battery from LG Chem has a longer life of 800 cycles, a significant improvement over existing mobile phone batteries.
The batteries are 100 percent recyclable, and currently have 5, 000-cycle life (the company wants 20, 000 cycles, plus 20-year calendar life).
How are these cycles affecting your life, including work, school and relationships?
Evidence for this comes from two studies which found a greater risk of lung cancer among women who underwent the menopause late in life, and those who had short menstrual cycles.
The Aztecs believed that life is nothing more than a series of endless cycles, the genesis of the "What goes around comes around" notion.
Between chemotherapy cycles, she began trying to get her life back.
As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of endless cycles, of oscillations, of rise and fall, golden ages of glory, bronze ages of decline, iron and stone ages of despair, with no genuine permanent progress.
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Even though the TLC cells have an erase-write rating of only 5, 000 cycles the company says the system provides an acceptable life using wear-leveling, write reduction and overprovisioning. (although we would like to see some field data on this) and provide a total storage capacity of up to 2 TB.
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