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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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Southwest: Flying High Over the Competition: Southwest LUV isn't nearing its all-time high, but we're not complaining as long as we clear those treeeee tops!; Tags: Competition, southwest, airlines, oil, hedging, fuel, bill, clinton, nascar, barrel, stephon, marbury, dave, chappelle, september, 11th, 50, fifty, kiss, cent, hurricane, cona, barbarian, arnold, schwarzenegger, katrina, cockpit, george, carlin, howard lindzon, julie alexandria, wallstrip, stocks, stock stock exchange, investing, invest, nasdaq, nyse, cnb, but no tags matched; Videos 2008-07-04
MLB's Revenue-Sharing Formula: MLB’s revenue-sharing program prevents large-market teams, like the Yankees and Red Sox, from dominating the league every year. Here's how the program affects revenues, payroll, and the competitive balance of baseball. Identifying the Imbalance In 1999, a “blue ribbon” panel...; Articles 2008-07-14
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
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
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, revenue; White papers

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
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
Job Search: Knock Out The Competition: Most of the time, competition stimulates us, gets our juices flowing, generates creativity, a sense of excitement, and motivates us to perform at our best. Looking for work is another matter! When it comes to financial survival, to regaining independence and self-worth, competition can be crippling. We apply for a...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job search, job, financial, game; White papers 2008-01-01
Fighting Low-Cost Competitors: Are your rivals slashing prices to capture market share? Learn the right way to keep them at bay — without destroying your profit margins.It’s every executive’s worst nightmare: You wake up one day to find that a competitor is selling a product much like yours at a much lower price....; Tags: Price, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager, BNET Feature Package, Competitor, Competition, Product, Customer, Geoffrey James, Costing, Competitive Strategy; Articles 2008-02-19
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, transportation, cost savings, competitive advantage, network; Articles 2008-04-01
How Wal-Mart Will Save Wal-Mart: The retailer’s executive team in Bentonville knows they can’t afford to stand still. What are they doing to put Wal-Mart back on the fast track? The Problem: Opening new stores in big cities Wal-Mart’s Solution: Launch efforts to support local businesses and introduce new...; Tags: Retail, Sales strategy, HEALTHCARE, TVs, Monitors & displays, Joseph De Avila, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., retail company, health care, health service, small business, same-store sales, electronics, flat panel, LCD TV, HDTV, real estate, sales, LCD, patient, food, programming, knowl; Articles 2007-08-08
Ask the Experts: How Would You Fix Wal-Mart?: Growth is stalled. Image-problems abound. We asked the experts to provide some free advice on how Wal-Mart can solve its current problems. The Problem: Opening new stores in U.S. cities The Summary: Whether it's Best Buy, Target, or Costco, every mega-retailer finds...; Tags: TVs, Joseph De Avila, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Home Depot Inc., consultant, food, China, plasma TV, same-store sales, brand, retail company, president, health care, emerging market, patient, leader, TV; Articles 2007-08-08
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, interest rate, asset, Economic Value Added, performance, notebook, working capital, laptop computer, logistics, adjustment, information system, sales, manufact; Articles 2008-01-04
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: Pragmatic Marketing Inc., competitive analysis, 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, supplier, health care, collaboration, analysis, revenue, 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
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, car, profit margin, training, performance, PC; Articles 2007-06-14
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