In many markets, inferior products can act as partial substitutes for more costly superior products.
Many brilliant accountants, lawyers and scientists focus not on devising superior products, but navigating Byzantine regulatory mazes.
Consumers will consistently tell surveys that they are willing to pay more for socially and environmentally superior products.
They succeed by continually building competitive advantage, which comes from delivering superior products and a compelling customer experience.
As a company that way more often than not comes out with superior products, Apple rarely appears defensive.
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But I think at the base of anything else that we do, we have to insure that we have superior products.
Rather than hitting back with superior products, the company hid behind politicians who appeared to help it in the short term.
It means how do we do things better, faster, cheaper to design and manufacture superior products that allow us to compete all over the world.
Profits would come from superior products, top executives reckoned correctly.
Even their customers, by purchasing their superior products, have benefited.
Porter maintained that countries do well economically in large part because of this clustering of specialised skills and industries that, through dynamic competition between them, produce superior products and processes.
He then issued a simple edict: Each unit had to create "demonstrably superior products" that could achieve "above-market growth rates" "This is not a strategy story, " says the buttoned-down Davis in his London office.
Jane Jacobs envisioned this transformative churning in her landmark book The Economy of Cities--a process in which the poor, making the best of their circumstances, create substitutes for expensive imports and eventually develop superior products for export.
Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced material architect, harnessing the fundamental properties of inorganic materials into process ready systems that can integrate into existing manufacturing to produce vastly superior products in lighting, electronic displays, solar power and energy storage.
The result is vastly inflated research and development costs, less innovation and diminished exploitation of superior techniques and products that could offer more crop for the drop.
"Samsung continues to create superior industry-leading products, content and services, " said Y.
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Its astounding success in Internet search is universally regarded as a consequence of better design, superior code, better products and plain old hard work.
Because his products are superior and he built an outstanding brand.
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We also lead the industry by reporting each product's greenhouse gas emissions on our website, and Apple products are superior in other important environmental areas not measured by EPEAT, such as removal of toxic materials.
One of these awards, The Technology Advancement Award, which recognizes an organization that develops methodologies or products that enable superior supply chain performance, was awarded to SAP.
"HTC is committed to providing the best and most personal customer experience in the mobile industry, from designing great products to delivering superior after-sales service and support, " said Simon Harper, VP of global customer experience at HTC.
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It is different from iOS and Android products, but not superior.
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But it's easy to imagine how Kodak could have decided that its products and people were superior to the competition's and that it should therefore isolate itself from the industry.
Eventually, the availability of biosimilars will spur competition and reduce prices somewhat, and because of advances in technology, some of the follow-on products may even be superior to the original brand-name biologicals.
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He says his company can compete because of speed of delivery, superior engineering skills making tailor-made products and high precision equipment.
In reality, according to what the SEC found, Dell's ability to meet Wall Street's earnings estimates for 20 straight quarters had little to do with the company's superior strategy, customer value proposition, products, or operating efficiencies.
Contrary to the claims of know-nothing critics like Bittman, such products are not only environmentally superior to conventional and (especially) organic offerings but would also offer the food industry a proven and practical means of tackling the fungal contamination at its source.
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Japanese products are also perceived to be superior for their reliability and for the quality of their dealer networks.
Additionally, like Apple products, Tesla cars consistently show superior design.
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