The brilliance of innovative solutions as well as the unfortunate consequences of poor product quality is equally as plain as day.
In sum, our flu season this year is simply a product of poor timing.
Sloppy work product, poor customer service and arguments with co-workers and supervisors are not legally protected workplace behaviors.
The reason: the government has backed sound economics with the transfer of 1% to 2% of gross domestic product to poor households through social programmes.
This lock-in effect gives Facebook some leverage to control ancillary economic activities both on and off Facebook, as well as make poor anti-user product choices and avoid punishment in the marketplace.
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Rather than risking poor reviews for a product that isn't nearly ready, these companies will hold closed-door meetings with a select group of potential partners and analysts, and make them sign non-disclosure agreements.
Apple people belong despite legendary poor service, lemon new product launches, and expensive closed systems.
Ironically, for all his claims to be a champion of the poor, Estrada himself is a product of privilege.
The governing coalition spends billions of dollars - more than 2% of its gross domestic product - on helping the poor.
Many working within the company understood the organizational problems that were getting in the way, such as product development teams not cooperating and consistently poor senior executive decisions, but there was no mechanism for uncovering those insights and acting on them.
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Well one of those poor souls must have grown up to become a product designer bent on saving future generations from such cruel torture, and the result is a portable "bonfire" that you can fold up and slip into a knapsack or strap onto your pack mule.
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Commercial lenders also argue with that with increased margins, microfinance companies can reinvest in the development of new product lines to address the myriad needs of the poor.
Since the product was launched, shortfalls have been blamed on poor reimbursement from Medicare and insurers, on trouble with the marketing message, and now on sales force issues.
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Mr. Kesslen said companies prefer to go after each other at the International Trade Commission, which offers quicker rulings and can impose an injunction barring the product from shipping into the U.S. Poor showings at the ITC can speed settlement, such as last year's agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and Broadcom Corp.
Nearterm might be a nice play because of these new product launches, but EBITDA at 1.7% is poor in our view.
Analysts estimate that poor infrastructure facilities in the country remove about two percentage points from gross domestic product growth.
On the product innovation agenda: the rise of mobile banking, a largely Philippine-poor driven phenomenon.
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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.
Perhaps it was poor consumer education on the company's part or the willful mishandling of a sophisticated product with embedded electronics, but that OG Up wasn't made with severe stretching in mind.
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In the worst case scenario, poor farmers could even end up being obliged to pay royalties to the patent holder on a product their forebears had grown for generations.
But when the company that makes a mistake enjoys a reputation for innovation and superb product quality like Apple, business strategists begin to wonder whether the mistake is just the result of poor judgment or a change in business priorities that may have far reaching consequence for the future of the company.
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