In 2001, Hewlett-Packard made the first strategic mistake, the purchase of Compaq Computer that supposed to provide the company with the scale advantage in the PC market to compete effectively against Dell Computer (NASDAQ:DELL), IBM, and all sorts of emerging Asian competitors.
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As the CIO, I understood how to leverage scale and take advantage of shared services models to drive down costs and improve services levels.
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After all, the smart phone world is a platform war, where first mover advantage and scale matter.
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The structure allows Apple to minimize risk and take advantage of scale by having most of its foreign earnings held by one entity.
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Technopak is advising groups of small shopkeepers in various places on how to get together and gain at least some advantage of scale in purchasing and marketing.
Large companies have the overwhelming advantage of being able to turn on scale for any product they believe in whereas users have the advantage of knowing what works for them.
We need to work across agencies to take advantage of our scale.
Scale is not a huge advantage on the manufacturing side of its business, which involves blending water, gas and a special syrup.
While the XPS One is starting out at a premium price, Del Prete predicts Dell will be able to drop the XPS One's price quickly--much more so than Apple could--by taking advantage of the scale of its operations.
The key now is making sure that more entrepreneurs, in more industries and in more regions of the country have the capital, skills training and expert networks that can help them start and scale businesses that can take advantage of these growing market opportunities.
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Economies of scale in banking are not an advantage in fund management.
Independent retailers had complained that oil companies and supermarkets had been using their scale to give themselves an unfair advantage, but the regulator found no evidence of this.
To manage this demand, operators are combining small cells with their large scale infrastructure, which have the advantage of serving a smaller group of customers nearby.
The rising tide of TDD-LTE networks globally in the 2.5GHz band will ultimately allow Clearwire to realize significant economies of scale and provide a valuable competitive advantage.
The fees are particularly essential for credit unions: far smaller than banks, they cannot take advantage of economies of scale to reduce the cost of servicing their customers.
The fact that the current big players have so much market share, capital, and the advantage of economies of scale and huge advertising budgets only makes matters worse.
As time progresses and as an industrial process is developed that enables the company to take advantage of economies of scale, this outlay is likely to fall, says Janin.
While ArcelorMittal definitely holds the advantage in economies of scale, we do believe that U.S. Steel has an opportunity to steadily lift its profit margins over the coming years.
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The result will be more concentration of breakthrough products from fewer players and more pressure on startups to scale up quickly with a distinct advantage or get swallowed up.
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Not only did consumers enjoy the benefits of more options and greater competition, but the larger market also allowed businesses to take greater advantage of economies of scale, pushing prices down.
Starting in the late 1990s, dentists began banding together under DSOs, taking advantage of economies of scale in order to cut overhead costs and provide quality service at much lower prices.
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With a smaller number of DVDs to handle, the company may lose out on the advantage of economies of scale and its distribution centers may not run as efficiently as they used to.
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Due to fewer number of DVDs to handle, the company may lose out on the advantage of economies of scale and its distribution centers may not run as efficiently as they used to.
Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.
But just considering economies of scale actually under-estimates the compliance advantage of large corporations.
But the real advantage to Pfizer's scale is that it can outbuy and out-license the competition.
Phonevalley's Alexandre Mars says that both mobile banner ads and text-based campaigns have the advantage of being easy to scale.
Even when engaging anchor customer decision-makers, most small businesses lack the resources to deliver at the scale and schedule required to take full advantage of what can be a one-time opportunity.
As fewer, more powerful and more complicated banks vie for business across the same landscape, their size will push them to make larger and larger loans to bigger and bigger borrowers to take advantage of their economies of scale.
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