The native devices caught up with larger screens, LTE connectivity and shorter product cycles.
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It has been slow to adjust to shortening product cycles in Europe's competitive car market.
This hinders players in the sporting goods industry, with its rapid-fire product cycles and relentless feature updates.
As Nokia has aggressively forced prices lower, the product cycles seem to be getting shorter and shorter.
What does it mean in terms of new product cycles and innovation cycles.
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For medical devices, delays are a big problem because product cycles are fast.
Their entire culture is built around software product cycles geared to Moore's Law.
Both had a dominant market share in various product cycles and both offered many similar product choices to its customers.
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Indeed, the phone industry has been characterized by fast-moving product cycles, where even one missed cycle can result in a slide.
As the product cycles continue, the worry for Samsung is they make a similar misstep that could bring down the Galaxy range.
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Hardware and software makers pushed ever shorter product cycles and provided ever more power for the same or lower price, flooding customers with capacity.
For hardware marketers such expectations raise pressure for fast product cycles, but on the upside it also indicates the category is far from maturation.
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They also missed the costs and risks of an international supply chain, which is increasingly out of step with the shorter, faster product cycles.
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Though it's smaller than the consumer side, it's an easier sell, with product cycles stretching two to three years compared with nine months for consumer models.
He also notes that Intel is on the verge of major product cycles in every part of the business, with new processors for PCs, servers and mobile devices.
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Product cycles are almost as limited in duration as the tenure of the average large-company CEO (a few years at most), after which all the investment and technology is written off.
Zander understood that this is a new millennium and floundering toward group decisions just doesn't cut it in the new global economy rife with theft of intellectual property and shorter product cycles.
Maybe it's an act of desperation, but they have concluded that instant feedback is one way to cope with the pressure for shorter product cycles and with the high failure rate of new products.
He also points out that Microsoft and Oracle are trading near trough levels, and both firms have new product cycles set to debut, which may mean upside for investors despite the macro slow-down.
The OEM business is expected to remain strong for the rest of the year, driven by new product cycles from manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, e-book readers and other mobile Internet devices that use flash-based storage solutions.
Borrowing in China and has become more difficult, too, though, so manufacturers may shy away from longer supply chains and the risks they carry, including getting inventory stuck in transit, particularly in industries with short product cycles or high spoilage.
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And although such a fragmentation and disintegration of the value chain offers corporations a number of well publicized advantages, it has an unintended consequence: It makes entry of new competitors to the industry easier, intensifying competition, shortening product cycles, and squeezing return on invested capital.
And although such a fragmentation and disintegration of the value chain offers companies a number of well publicized advantages, it has an unintended consequence: It eases the entry of new competitors to the industry easier, intensifying competition, shortening product cycles, and squeezing return on invested capital.
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Our restructuring efforts are designed to simplify our product development cycles, reduce our breakeven point and enable us to fund differentiated product roadmaps and strategic breakaway opportunities.
Second, device-specific FAA testing procedures, while admirably thorough, cannot keep up with product development cycles in the consumer mobile space.
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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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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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That is going to be even more valuable as more and more data permeates the enterprise and product usability will meaningfully impact sales cycles.
Prognostication is often the product of studying history and the many trends, cycles, bubbles and busts that have unfolded throughout the years.
"When the market crashed and we were unable to raise the full funding, we had to re-think our launch plans and shape the business plan in a way that we could execute, " delaying product releases and concentrating on key items, promotions and holiday sales cycles.
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