Since the death of Jobs, the company has been trying to move from a company built around one person, to a company struggling to adapt to a new model.
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Kodak's current woes boil down to that eerily familiar song: An old-line technology company unable to adapt to the fast-pace and vicious competition of the digital age.
Twitter-like Weibo microblog business, as the company tries to adapt its business to capture growth in China's mobile Internet market.
Meanwhile, Mattress Firm, the largest mattress retailer in the US, with more than 800 locations, 30 warehouses, a corporate headquarters in Houston, and a satellite corporate office, looked to Dynamics to help ensure a consistent customer experience while the company itself continued to grow and adapt.
Ask them often and adapt your company quickly to reflect what they truly find important.
But the really big issues are how the company will adapt to the internet and the rise of digital media.
With its stock on a tear and a track record of continually proving the marketplace wrong with its ability to adapt, the California-based company has set and achieved a string of lofty goals.
Cheap tech and shrinking transaction costs within supplier networks are two trends that outpace any large company's ability to adapt.
"Microsoft and many other companies realize that since it is, after all, people who use technology, it's critical for the company to understand how people adapt to technology, " notes Kentaro Toyama, who leads the Technology for Emerging Markets research group at Microsoft Research India.
There's some truth to the extreme language, but BlackBerry 10 is really just the latest in a series of transformational moments for a company that has frequently had to adapt to survive.
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He also failed to adapt his skills to the changing needs of the company.
It seems odd to pay a worker compensation because his firm has succumbed to competition from imports, but give him nothing if it has been put out of business by a company up the road, or failed to adapt to changes in technology or in customers' tastes.
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The iconic film company filed for bankruptcy in January after years struggling to adapt to the changing camera industry.
It is that it is a social media company whose advertisers have not yet figured out how to adapt and profit in modern times.
In order to adapt to change as CoupTessa looks to the future, Horn sees the company as a hedgehog.
So how can business leaders cultivate the organizational agility needed to adapt to rapidly shifting markets and consumer preferences, especially in an established company?
People often ask me that, as a company grows, what does one have to do to change and adapt?
This focused approach along with pricing and packaging strategies to adapt to shifting demographic and consumer behavior trends in developed markets, has driven sales growth for the company through the protracted global slowdown.
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The company that operates flights from Land's End to the Isles of Scilly has had to adapt a new plane it is adding to its fleet.
If a company holds a small percentage of its market and that overall market shrinks, it will need to quickly adapt to the new market fundamentals and innovate to establish a stronger position.
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