But moving from sewing clothes to building phone networks requires more than nimbler hands.
The company has also been unable to fend off nimbler rivals from China and South Korea.
But the cartels have been nimbler than legitimate businesses in switching to new markets.
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Under Clark this prideful colossus of bureaucratic silos has become more open to criticism, nimbler and hungrier.
And they may enable lumbering parents to produce nimbler, more entrepreneurial offspring better able to challenge upstarts.
Carrefour has also struggled against nimbler rivals such as online retailers and a growing demand for specialist stores.
Some of these nimbler airlines specialize in point-to-point service, instead of the hub-and-spoke system used by the legacy carriers.
Wisconsin executives say the new public-private economic-development commission created by Walker is much nimbler and more responsive than the previous government bureaucracy.
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At the low-price end, open-source upstarts MySQL and Enterprisedb have hawked cheaper, nimbler databases for a few years, possibly squeezing Ingres out.
If they had to reveal trades in progress, they say, nimbler buyers might snap up the shares first and raise the cost.
Advertisers, who have become nimbler at adjusting their marketing buys in real time in recent years, were quick to take note of the trend.
They have the advantage over schools of being a lot nimbler and focusing on newsworthy topics that will take a while to filter into textbooks.
As his weight increased, smaller, nimbler wrestlers found it ever easier to sidestep his fearsome charges, and he started to fall over and injure himself.
Their delays have merely left the field open to nimbler pirates.
This led to a "very slight" performance lead over the GTX 680, especially at higher resolutions, but the nimbler NVIDIA card still won on power efficiency.
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As a result, pharma companies are increasingly trying to partner with smaller, nimbler research organisations around the world to develop the next generation of medical breakthroughs.
On a more positive note, the study team also revealed that exercise did make children nimbler, making them more likely to engage in sport in the future.
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The region's nimbler, more market-oriented colleges have been helped by the new practice of dividing education into chunks (bachelor's and master's degrees, for a start), with work sandwiched in between.
Mr Kikuchi believes that, if Japanese manufacturers are to compete against nimbler low-cost rivals in China, the development of future products will involve a mix of different technologies and services.
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To get new models in showrooms faster, Ford is adopting many of the product-development processes used by its nimbler Japanese partner, Mazda (where Fields fashioned a successful turnaround earlier in the decade).
Both firms have been slow to develop niche models in a rapidly fragmenting market, and so find themselves having to catch up with nimbler competitors such as the Japanese and South Koreans.
And so there is a land-grab afoot where the younger, nimbler Web software firms Salesforce, Workday, Netsuite, and Box are aiming to gain share from the giants including Oracle and SAP.
The century-old company, whose founder invented the first mechanical pencil and designed one of the first radio sets in Japan, has in recent years fallen behind nimbler rivals, such as South Korea's Samsung.
Still, contractors look far nimbler at solving myriad problems than civil servants, who are still hampered, for example, by rules ordering that all official communication be done on paper (e-mails will not do).
They were jumped by smaller nimbler players.
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These conditions -- including restrictions on collaboration with fellow publishers and increased federal auditing and reporting requirements -- will increase publisher expenses and slow their business decisions at the very time when publishers need to become faster, nimbler competitors.
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