In the sometimes slow moving world of conventional business, price collapses may crash your margins and profits.

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Symyx is shaking up the slow-moving world of chemicals by applying tools borrowed from the drug industry: miniaturization and high-speed automation.

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He sees fibermakers as stuck in the old, slow-moving telecom world.

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In Europe, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia and now in the Arab world, sudden events and slow-moving trends bring us into a new world -- in the Pacific and in the Mediterranean -- and we welcome the new global governments in the G20, reflecting the growing influence of emerging countries as well as their new responsibilities.

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Perhaps in some slow-moving companies, those hardened-silo outlooks persist, but in top-performing businesses across the world, all C-level execs are balancing their domain expertise with intense focus on customer behavior and other external factors.

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