| Culture, climate, and human capital resources can additively influence a firm's competitive advantage. |
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| If you decide to build competitive advantage around price, be careful not to start a price war. |
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| The continuance of the South-East's competitive advantage continues to act as a magnet for both firms and skilled individuals. |
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| This means the day-long event will provide quality information about how to leverage IT for competitive advantage. |
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| The cattle barons dominated because without property rights the biggest operations gained all the competitive advantage. |
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| If the executives were overpaid, then this company should have a competitive advantage over others in the industry due to the cost savings. |
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| Offering technical expertise just gives the ingredient supplier one more competitive advantage. |
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| This means that Bulgarian organic farmers have a good competitive advantage on European markets. |
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| Smaller individuals will hence be at a competitive advantage with respect to exploitative competition. |
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| Consequently, in the bid for competitive advantage, organizations have downsized, restructured, merged or acquired. |
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| If you become complacent, the industry will pass you by and you will lose your competitive advantage. |
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| Hiring and retaining good people is increasingly a business's competitive advantage. |
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| All it means is that the source of competitive advantage from technology is not in terabytes or gigaflops any more. |
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| The ability of existing firms to profitably gain and maintain market share indicates a competitive advantage. |
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| Being a low-cost producer is a competitive advantage that is essential to survival in the dairy business. |
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| Over the years, Mother Nature's benevolence was a boon to Florida growers, giving them the competitive advantage over cold-weather spud growers. |
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| Giving away wireless broadband saves on billing costs, attracts customers, and creates an instant competitive advantage. |
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| Shopkeepers that want to beat Tesco at their own game need to have a strong competitive advantage. |
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| That gives us, as New Zealanders, a clear, competitive advantage in most industries. |
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| The ability to deliver and prove high levels of performance is no longer just a competitive advantage. |
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| It is a much cheaper way of gaining competitive advantage and it is a continuing process. |
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| Keeping on top of global developments in a particular field can afford serious competitive advantage. |
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| Also, large producers are loath to green their products unless they see a competitive advantage to doing so. |
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| This is provided those companies have a strong market position and clear competitive advantage. |
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| However, when foreign competitors do not follow these good standards they gain competitive advantage because they can produce goods cheaper. |
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| A company's unencumbered view of its supply chain provides a competitive advantage by being able to react to constantly changing requirements. |
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| Bangladesh's competitive advantage in the Jute sector is the fact that jute production is very much labor intensive. |
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| Google understands that simplicity is both sacred and central to its competitive advantage. |
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| A competitor might erode the outlet's competitive advantage by offering natural beef through traditional channels. |
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| According to the company, multicomponent molding offers a wide range of opportunities for molders looking to gain competitive advantage. |
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| If you diversify into activity where you have no competitive advantage you are just tilting at windmills. |
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| But patching a system won't recover stolen data, recoup competitive advantage or revive consumer confidence. |
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| Furthermore, the lost time may result in a competitive advantage for rivals. |
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| After weathering the Asian crisis, the city is fast losing its competitive advantage. |
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| The competitive advantage arising from the lower Canadian dollar will be drowned out by the effect of broadly weaker U. S. demand. |
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| The Charest government is sabotaging this competitive advantage bit by bit. |
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| As wholesale electric markets evolve, utility companies and other electric generators have greater incentive to stretch the grid to its limits to gain a competitive advantage. |
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| Despite these anxious times, Groupe SILICOMP enjoys a strong financial position securing it an uncontestable competitive advantage. |
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| The aero engine maker told employees that Brexit would put its planned £65m testing plant at risk and hand US rivals a competitive advantage. |
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| Without a clear competitive advantage, they try to outpour resources and people into a series of costly but fruitless battles. |
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| How does your company transform raw data into a strategic asset so that it can maneuver adeptly and gain competitive advantage? |
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| If you sell to the United States and create a competitive advantage, your product will sell like wildfire also. |
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| Winning strategies are swiftly emulated, thereby swiftly neutralizing their competitive advantage. |
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| This unrivaled saving has already helped many private, commercial and industrial customers to gain a crucial competitive advantage. |
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| If it's not, then we'll just let the global market run its course, and those without a competitive advantage will die out. |
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| Our commitment to continued innovation, as the means to gain distinct competitive advantage, was undiminished. |
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| They select, for example, companies that should gain value from synergistic acquisitions or that have a competitive advantage in their industry. |
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| In today's constantly evolving world, this agility represents an indisputable competitive advantage. |
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| He referred to a competitive advantage that we would have with tax cuts in our country. |
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| Being able to offer a full range of products constitutes a major competitive advantage on two counts. |
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| This workshop seeks to equip you with the tools required to turn this into a competitive advantage for your enterprise. |
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| Strategic because they enhance the ability of the enterprise to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. |
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| Jeannine: We're doing business plans and taking a look at the market and how we can gain a competitive advantage. |
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| How much of a competitive advantage do we have here in Canada because of the skill set of our workers? |
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| However, in the international market, a general zero-rating for air travel gives this mode a considerable competitive advantage. |
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| Soon, however, those who broaden their recruitment strategies will have a competitive advantage over those who do not. |
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| This is absolutely vital, and, in the long-term, there will be a competitive advantage to having flags of high quality. |
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| We set high quality standards for our products and develop them with the aim of providing our customers with a competitive advantage. |
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| Because, whatever the history, Amazon's competitive advantage no longer derives from its tax-free status. |
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| Moreover, uneducated Americans have a competitive advantage because of their fluency in English. |
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| Both the states and Amazon clearly believed that freedom from sales tax constituted a major competitive advantage for Amazon. |
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| Being quick to pick up on emerging trends delivers a competitive advantage because innovative products can increase sales to existing customers and attract new ones. |
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| This agreement also provides NOVA Chemicals more feedstock flexibility for our Joffre facility and enhances its competitive advantage. |
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| However, it acknowledged that self-regulation can be frustrated by 'free rider' companies, using non-compliance to gain an unfair competitive advantage. |
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| Without exaggeration, this cluster's success in attracting world-renowned expertise has created a substantial competitive advantage for the region. |
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| Strategists will think about how to increase the competitive advantage of the company by partitioning those parts of the company that represent its key products or commodities and which make it unique, from others. |
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| New Zealand Companies focus on Travel Risk Management and Duty of Care Business travel is a competitive advantage. |
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| It might not be easier to run a business with family members, but when family businesses work, they possess an inborn competitive advantage no other company can match. |
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| Pothole's competitive advantage is the KM 8000T trailer and asphalt hotbox reclaimer. |
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| Today it is a matter of big money and competitive advantage. |
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| It's a very interesting competitive advantage. |
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| The ability to provide customers with a single contact point for anything relating to the services provided is a competitive advantage in this kind of service. |
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| We are finalizing our automation project for our cutting and packaging operations, which we believe will give us a competitive advantage and therefore generate opportunities. |
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| Companies that exceed goals would probably be better valued, as analysts could then tell if the company was wasting money or gaining competitive advantage. |
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| Comfort Bultex' has grown in the flexible foams business line since 1995 to become the only filling material able to gain a competitive advantage from its brand name and its visibility. |
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| First, Canada's public policy framework should be as competitive as other jurisdictions and where possible, should serve as a source of competitive advantage for Canadian firms. |
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| Additionally, by specialising in a particular stage of production, these firms develop focused innovational capabilities that further increase their competitive advantage in offering higher quality differentiated services. |
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| By some estimates, certain renewables will start to gain a competitive advantage from 2005 in many markets and, as the cost comes down, the opportunities for introducing them more widely in developed countries will increase. |
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| If three-party schemes with licensees were exempted from the requirement to separate scheme and processing, they would have a competitive advantage over four-party schemes. |
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| It acknowledged some concerns among companies that since competitive advantage is invariably based on technological innovation, transferring technology can mean transferring competitive advantage. |
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| In a business environment where competitive advantage is increasingly determined by the quality of ideas a company puts forth, diversity is more important than ever. |
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| Having regard to these elements, the right of first refusal does not create any competitive advantage in favour of Axens or any distortion of competition. |
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| Because a fleet of lorries in a poor state of technical repair should certainly not have a competitive advantage, and conversely no haulier should be punished if he keeps his lorries in optimal technical condition. |
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| In a more remote future, even is a price increase is to be expected Russia and Ukraine will keep an important competitive advantage due to the size of their operations. |
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| Our aim is to continue being able to offer a competitive advantage. |
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| To date, Stratos believes that its entrepreneurial nature and diverse product offerings have given it a competitive advantage over these larger counterparts. |
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| In addition, Saskatchewan is taking the opportunity to give emphasis to the presence of French-language communities in the province as a competitive advantage to better promote Saskatchewan in Canada and abroad. |
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| But our competitive advantage, which undergirds military power, will shift unless we overcome our hubris and tackle the structural challenges. |
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| A tie up between Eire-based Pubble and means small businesses can now take competitive advantage and outcompete their biggest business rivals. |
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| The decision in any event deprived the individual FEG member of the possibility of refraining from passing on a particular price increase in order to secure a competitive advantage over its competitors. |
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| This level of price prediction is a huge competitive advantage for our clients who trade Eurodollars. |
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| The potential of an organization's sustainable competitive advantage depends on the rareness and imitability of its resources and capabilities. |
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| Photowatt controls proprietary technologies, such as ingot growing and high-yield wafer cutting technology, which give it a competitive advantage and cost control. |
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| Being able to ship throughout this zone is also a competitive advantage to meet the needs of distributors, which are harmonizing their practices in this region too. |
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| Conferring a competitive advantage on those groups indubitably has an effect on trade and the potential to distort competition on the common market. |
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| By acting now, Canada can get ahead of the curve and create a sustainable competitive advantage for the future, an advantage that will bring economic and social benefits to all Canadians. |
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| The Norway maple also suffers less herbivory than the sugar maple, allowing it to gain a competitive advantage against the latter species. |
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| Slight competitive advantage on the part of modern humans has accounted for Neanderthals' decline on a timescale of thousands of years. |
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| Indian cotton textiles, particularly those from Bengal, continued to maintain a competitive advantage up until the 19th century. |
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| The organisation requires a proper structure in order to retain competitive advantage. |
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| For the political level, measures of innovation are more focused on a country or region competitive advantage through innovation. |
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| Effective process control strategies increase the competitive advantage of manufacturers who employ them. |
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| A trade secret is information that is intentionally kept confidential and that provides a competitive advantage to its possessor. |
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| Indian textiles, however, still maintained a competitive advantage over British textiles up until the 19th century. |
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| This early global expansion is a competitive advantage over its competitors and European neighbours. |
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| However, Dutch port towage operators have a competitive advantage over their counterparts in the Community since they receive illegal aid which enables them to adopt aggressive market behaviour. |
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| Lower social taxation, however, gives enterprises a competitive advantage in the short term, and this leads to discontentment among enterprises in countries with higher taxation levels. |
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| Therefore, Procyon's competitive advantage is both medical in targeting the unmet medical need of viral resistance and economic in terms of cost-of-goods. |
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| Seeking greater competitive advantage in our business, the company has decided to consolidate the production of boxer shorts in Asia. |
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| The competitive advantage is embedded in the fact that they are established bricks-and-mortar companies. |
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| But its tolerance and brashness were also part of its economic strength: Donald Trump would have fitted into London. More controversially, Mr Mead also claims that God was part of the anglosphere's competitive advantage. |
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| Leveraging analytics as a means to improve cross-sell and upsell effectiveness is emerging as a substantial competitive advantage. |
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| For this reason far-sighted businesses are already thinking about how to create competitive advantage going forward, for example through research and development or targeted deals. |
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| But every so often it seems that it is the inevitable fact of financial life that the chase after competitive advantage will lead to excesses, which in turn lead to the predictable bust. |
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| We must work to ensure that, given the future we are now confronting, the United States does not obtain a competitive advantage from showing the kind of irresponsibility we have seen so far. |
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| The eventual loser may be the human species, as the planet adapts in its own way to climate change, possibly shifting the ecological competitive advantage towards other species. |
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| If you are replacing a proprietary solution with a commodity solution, either as software or as a service, you need to ask whether you don't squander your competitive advantage by the move. |
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| In 2006, the Group will continue to stand apart from its competitors through new value-added products, which offer a strategic competitive advantage. |
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| One of the questions we will explore in the next section is the extent to which ICT SMEs actively pursue diverse talent as a way of alleviating labour shortages and gaining competitive advantage. |
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| In extolling the virtues of the government, how does the hon. member expect us to maintain a competitive advantage when the bill does not contain the backing required to make us more competitive? |
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| As a result, if the Bill is enacted in its current form, foreign companies operating outside Canada may have a competitive advantage in doing business with Canadian consumers and businesses. |
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| The two Seaway Corporations on both sides of the border adopted the strategy some time ago of leveraging technology to modernize the system and regain our competitive advantage. |
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| Instead, it is imperative that Europe makes progress in restructuring its economy in order to gain a competitive advantage as the spearhead of technological innovation and to initiate changes in other countries. |
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| Centillium continues to drive leading-edge ADSL technology and delivers the most advanced products required to maintain and strengthen our competitive advantage. |
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| Customers and UNIS LUMIN, together, will validate and develop fresh business strategies with the potential to drive competitive advantage and differentiation. |
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| Designed to meet the multichannel DOCSIS RF interface specification, it offers the best RF performance and most cost competitive advantage in the industry today. |
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| Our customers gain competitive advantage through the automation, individualization, and coordination of cross-channel marketing interactions at massive scale. |
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| Companies adopt Consol in order to globally consolidate their spend management, which in turn gives them a competitive advantage in the marketplace. |
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| However, Chowdhury suggested that there is a limit beyond which reducing domestic taxes on production cannot confer a competitive advantage versus smuggled cigarettes. |
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| A suspected nitrogen fixer, autumn olive gains competitive advantage by utilizing light more efficiently through the accumulation chlorophyll and rapid growth. |
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