Other long-term benefits sought include more efficient overall processes, flexible operating models, and faster speed to market.
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But that rigor and discipline come at a cost, slowing speed to market and letting more nimble competitors capture market share.
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To take advantage of our complex manufacturing base and to hasten the shift away from Asia, speed to market is critical.
Another difference between Sprint Mobile Wallet and ISIS is speed to market.
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Feng Deng of Northern Light Venture Capital said that speed to market and cheap prices still matter most for startups to get ahead today in China.
At the same time, Elop implied that he was holding Nokia employees to a higher standard, particularly regarding speed to market, which Nokia has been criticized for in recent years.
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Shih says the two companies had differing ideas about how to thrive in the wireless industry, with Garmin preferring to focus on offering unique features and Asus emphasizing speed to market.
The challenges of harnessing the power of vastly increased participant interactivity are a key differentiator to competitive performance and speed to market, and are therefore of paramount importance to effective employee strategy.
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Today however, the rapid consumer adoption of mobile apps is what drives demand for cloud services, cloud platforms and cloud infrastructure, as the low capital investment and instant scalability enable speed to market and individual user adoption.
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The Hornet would be the first Chinese-made car sold by a big automaker in the U.S. "It allows us some speed to market and to position Chrysler where we might have a product void, " Nardelli said on Aug. 6, his first day on the job.
On Tuesday, the FDA announced plans to find ways to speed drugs to market.
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Instead to save money and supposedly to boost quality and speed time to market Boeing outsourced 60% of the design and manufacture to suppliers.
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The acquisition should allow the company to reduce costs, optimize pricing and speed innovations to market.
Licensing is at an all-time high as companies struggle to grow in a down economy and speed time to market.
For years cardiologist Steven Nissen was a friend to the drug industry, as he looked for new technologies to speed heart drugs to market.
In order to speed their products to market, some companies skip the drug route and brand their products as medical foods or "nutraceuticals, " as the industry calls the huge category of over-the-counter nutritional supplements.
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That allowed Nvidia to speed a new graphics chip to market every six to nine months, a pace the company has sustained ever since.
Then plan for your product to be used in technology at that date: Be careful not to get there too early or try to force the market to speed up, because your company will die.
Speed-to-market is all important to Do Won (Don) Chang, founder and boss of the operation.
"Working together will significantly help speed this technology to market at a more affordable cost to our customers, " said Raj Nair, group vice president of global product development at Ford.
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The big advantage is the speed of getting to market and reduced out of pocket expenses, though there are considerable costs associated with shares that are sold after the transactions by members of the shell company.
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One of the biggest advantages of a new venture is its time to market, its speed, its ability to be nimble, its ability to change its plan.
Codon intends to use all this high-speed capacity to go after a future market in complicated biotech devices that use three or more BioBricks.
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However, like many areas around the world the region is grappling with how to deliver high-speed net access to rural areas where the market is reluctant to go.
Accelerating the declines, high-frequency hedge funds, which use computers to trade at super high speed, appeared to pull back from the market as prices collapsed.
They expect it to bring in tax cuts and investment incentives, and to speed up privatisation and market deregulation.
Aside from license acquisition costs--please, "bribe" is such a common word--owning these licenses outright can speed a business' time to market by years.
The key will be increasing the speed of bringing new products to market, an area where Dell has been clobbering Compaq for years.
"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.
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Only companies that transform their operating models will be able to build a mutually reinforcing value chain, accelerate the speed at which they bring relevant technology to market, and remain competitive over the next five years.
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