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Competition: rivalry between companies to achieve greater market share. Competition between companies for customers will lead to product innovation and improvement, and ultimately, lower prices. The...; Competition definition on BNET »

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Post-Divestiture LEC Management & Regulation: The slides talk about RBOC environment after divestiture, equal access and LD competition, beginnings of local competition, RBOC strategies, and major challenges post divestiture regulatory environment. It points out the required culture changes. The major challenges to change culture are also discussed. Further it reveals that it takes time to...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, divestiture, subsidy, regulation, corporate culture, environment, telecommunications, strategy, industry, network; Presentations
How to Evaluate Your Small Business Competition: A person needs to understand the difference between direct and indirect competition. Direct competition is a company that offers the same products and services to the same market a person does. Indirect competition is a company that offers the same products and services to a different market than a person...; Tags: small business; White papers
KCPL Gets a Charge Out of ABC/ABM: Kansas City Power & Light Company KCPL, like other electrical utility companies, is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC. Although KCPL has always striven to control costs for ratepayers, the emergence of competition has reinforced the desire to be a low cost provider. While three to five years...; Tags: Managerial accounting, Telecom & Utilities, BetterManagement.com, activity-based management, Activity Based Costing, industry; White papers
bizlife Column Six: One is living in extraordinary times. Competition is keen and customers are demanding. What does it take to succeed day in and day out, year in and year out? It takes extraordinary performance. And to get extraordinary performance, a company needs to be populated with extraordinary people. Where does one...; Tags: Performance management, performance; White papers
Superior Customer Relationships: Best Practices of Eastman Kodak Co., Medrad Inc, and Fidelity Investment Services: Most organizations in a given marketplace want close customer relationships and pursue these relationships using advanced technologies, refined and aligned processes, and well-trained people. Unfortunately, competitors often wanting the same customers seek them with similar intensity and tactics. Competition affects industry profitability, and competitive advantage is the...; Tags: Strategy, APQC, competitive advantage, competitive strategy, CRM, best practice, industry; White papers

Automotive CEOs Warn Low Cost Competition Is Key Threat, According to PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Global CEO Survey: CEOs of automotive companies see low-cost competition as the biggest threat to the future of their sector. The survey reported in this document found 73 percent believe such competition will threaten the revenue growth of their company over the next 12 months. Of all the sectors canvassed in the survey,...; Tags: Marketing research, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, survey, CEO, talent; White papers
Karen Alweil: High-End Retail Visionary: Karen Alweil Studio represents high-end gift and furniture manufacturers to retailers. Owner Karen Alweil talks about how she finds the best talent and markets their products in a way that gives her an edge over the competition.; Tags: talent; Videos 2008-04-10
Value Innovation: The Idea in Brief Struggling to stay ahead of your rivals? No need. Instead of trying to match or beat them on cost or quality, make the other players irrelevant--by staking out new market space...; Tags: W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne, sleep, accommodation, strategy, industry, cost savings, transportation, competitive advantage, network; Articles 2008-04-01
MarketBusting: The Idea in Brief You can't outperform rivals if you compete the same way they do. To be king of the jungle, not copycat, you must spur substantial new growth--quickly, profitably, and safely. ...; Tags: Asset management, Performance management, Notebooks, Rita Gunther McGrath, Ian C. MacMillan, Cemex, LendingTree, asset, interest rate, Economic Value Added, performance, working capital, notebook, laptop computer, logistics, information system, adjustment, manufacturing; Articles 2008-01-04
How to Beat a Lower-Priced Competitor: It’s every company’s nightmare: a competitor enters your market with a similar product priced at a fraction of what you currently charge. You need a strategy for beating the low-ballers. So what’s the best way to proceed? On the one hand, all you need to do is...; Tags: Geoffrey James, price war, magnetic resonance imaging, consulting, strategy, profit margin, training, performance, PC; Articles 2007-06-14
Competitive Analysis: Digging For Info: Product Managers are often called upon to analyze the competition, perhaps with an eye to positioning the product to sell better, or as a way of determining which features to add in order to better compete in the market. This paper continues the discussion with some miscellaneous tactics and techniques,...; Tags: Branding, Pragmatic Marketing Inc., positioning, technique; White papers 2007-12-01
Simple Rules for Making Alliances Work: The Idea in Brief The number of corporate alliances soars 25% a year. And those partnerships account for nearly 33% of many companies' revenue and value. Yet the failure rate for alliances hovers at 60%-70%. According to Hughes and Weiss, that's because too...; Tags: Strategy, Jonathan Hughes, Jeff Weiss, alliance, Aventis, disagreement, Blue Cross Blue Shield, partnership, biotechnology, decision-making, health care, supplier, collaboration, analysis, financial, performance; Articles 2007-11-16
A New View of Competition: Competition is on the cover of the latest issue of the Wilson Quarterly, the highly readable intellectual smorgasbord published by the Woodrow Wilson Center. Its four articles focus on how competitive American life has become, with obvious implications for business. Daniel Akst, in an article entitled "Strive...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Anil Rathi: Innovation Through Competition: Most companies depend on a few top executives for bright ideas. But American Express, Whirlpool and Hilton Hotels have used Anil Rathi's Innovation Challenge to corral thousands of motivated people from around the world to provide solutions to their business problems. Here, Rathi shares secrets and lessons learned from the...; Tags: Team management, team; Videos 2007-09-11
The Secret to Better Globalization: Train the Company, Not the Worker: In July a Financial Times poll found that US citizens were three times more likely to believe globalization is having negative rather than positive effects. Because of increasing interconnectedness, many resources, human or otherwise, have been relocated. Competition is fierce and many feel their lifestyles are threatened. In everyday words,...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, globalization, worker, NPC; Blog posts 2007-08-15
Andy Reif: Turning Video Games into a Professional Sport: Many businesses have large ambitions. But few start worldwide from their first day. Global video game league Championship Gaming Series kicked off in June with a draft and $5 million in player salaries as well as distribution deals in Africa, Asia, The Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the U.S....; Tags: Games, video game, video, game; Videos 2007-09-13
Innovation Through Competition: Most companies depend on a few top executives for bright ideas. But American Express, Whirlpool and Hilton Hotels have used Anil Rathi's Innovation Challenge to corral thousands of motivated people from around the world to provide solutions to their business problems. Here, Rathi shares secrets and lessons learned from the...; Tags: Innovation, competition, Rathi, American Express, Whirlpool, Hilton Hotels, outsourcing, global workforce, Team Management, Leadership, Strategy; Videos 2007-09-11
Innovation Through Competition: Most companies depend on a few top executives for bright ideas. But American Express, Whirlpool and Hilton Hotels have used Anil Rathi's Innovation Challenge to corral thousands of motivated people from around the world to provide solutions to their business problems. Here, Rathi shares secrets and lessons learned from the...; Tags: competition, corporate change, Anil Rathi, outsourcing, Innovation, Hilton Hotels, Innovation Challenge, Team Management, Leadership, Strategy, Whirlpool, American Express; Videos 2007-09-11
Competition And Productivity Growth In South Africa: Using three different panel data sets, the authors show: That mark-ups are significantly higher in South African manufacturing industries than they are in corresponding industries worldwide; That competition policy (i.e. a reduction of markups) should have largely positive effects on productivity growth and employment in South Africa. The paper is...; Tags: Harvard University, regression, South Africa, industry; White papers 2006-08-01
The Supervision of Innovation: Competition necessitates continuous innovation. Since every department, division or business is in constant competition if only with itself, producing new products, new ideas or new ways of doing things is the currency of success today. Working smarter, better or faster requires innovative thinking. It's the only way to gain an...; Tags: Leadership, Thomson Corp.; White papers 2006-07-01