Sentences with phrase «even as a strategy»

While NAFTA functions well for manufacturing and resource businesses, it leaves our policy makers believing that opening more international markets is the key to success for all sectors — even as that strategy fails to provide equitable results for Canadian companies competing to scale up their ideas globally.

Even as a strategy consultant I loved to add a special twist to a rather boring work outfit.

Nintendo for years resisted introducing mobile games with its best - known characters in an effort to protect its console business, even as the strategy produced a string of operating losses.

Not exact matches

They should remain something that complements your existing strategy or indeed allows growth, but you should not be reliant upon them as they have the power to change the very rules you live by... They could increase commission or block sellers in your category and even undercut you on your best - selling product.

Even if you never intend to put a shovel in the ground, though, thinking about brands as places may prove to be the sturdiest paradigm for strategy in the 21st century.

As evidenced by a number of recent rebranding strategies that failed miserably, even large companies with the staff and resources to implement such an effort sometimes fail to get it right.

But that strategy works in other settings too, such as drawing attention to a booth on a crowded trade show floor, flagging down fans outside big sporting events, or even promoting political causes.

Poulin and Medline were ousted within a week of each other, and Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Willis linked their departures as proof that «there's little tolerance for a boss who lacks a smart strategy for an increasingly tech - driven marketplace and even less patience for a leader who fails to deliver on digital promises.»

More than four - fifths of agencies and brands already purchase display ads programmatically, while an even greater proportion of publishers are pursuing programmatic channels as part of their sales strategies, according to surveys and our own conversations with industry participants.

«As hackers devise more advanced and less recognizable threats, organizations that continue to settle for cybersecurity strategies that rely on a «feeling» of security are taking even greater risks in the coming year.»

Roberts said every time he teamed up with traders on an automated trading venture, their strategies and ideas missed the mark even though they had previously been successful as market professionals.

But even considering how much pressure it's constantly under to grow, and as crazy as the talent competition all around it is, Centro's strategies and the ideas that came through in our discussion were extremely thoughtful and long - term.

However, even as the SBA hopes that Congress can pass a bill to fund the government beyond midnight, it has filed a plan with the White House Office of Management and Budget outlining its strategy in the case of a government shutdown.

(Fortune «s Roger Parloff even noted that Carlson not naming Fox News as a defendant in her lawsuit might have been a strategy to drive a deeper wedge between Ailes and the company.)

Vendors want to profit from this partnership as much as you do and a good pitching strategy may put you on more favorable terms with the vendor even if you have no history together.

But even if there is no such thing as bad publicity, the attention may be fleeting without a concrete strategy going forward.

Even as Jung was pursuing an ambitious growth strategy, the company was struggling in key emerging economies.

In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a «multiplanetary species.»

Even so, the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute found in a new study that, for small businesses, their Websites were more important as sales - generation tools than any social media strategy.

As a strategy, it even trumps competitiveness.

That's why McWhirter believes even the savviest entrepreneur can benefit from an advisor who acts as a coach to make sure that his investment strategy stays on track.

Oath plans to announce its deal with Samsung as part of its presentation to media buyers in New York Tuesday evening, outlining its strategy for the year.

«Advertising, even as we move into a digital data - driven paradigm, still involves strategy and creativity,» he said.

All of these tools work on their own, but they work even better as pieces of a larger sales strategy.

Thanks to a document known as a private letter ruling, even small companies can probe the Internal Revenue Service's attitudes about state - of - the - art, aggressive tax strategies.

The only way to go up was if someone left a position, and even then, you weren't guaranteed the position,» said Salas, who now works as an assistant account executive at Hollywood PR in Boston, where the entire firm comes together every other week for strategy brainstorming sessions.

Moving forward, companies should continue to use consumer behavior as guidance, even when it comes to picking the basic technologies offered within a customer service strategy.

That victory was the culmination of a controversial, years - long rebuilding strategy that Sports Illustrated presciently wrote about in 2014, even going so far as to put a prediction that the Astros would win the pennant in 2017 on the magazine's cover.

As my colleague Jen Wieczner notes, «The deal marks a spectacular failure of Valeant's onetime acquisition strategy, as well as an incredible win for Cindy Whitehead, who now stands to make even more from the sexual dysfunction treatment she helped create than the $ 1 billion she initially sold it for.&raquAs my colleague Jen Wieczner notes, «The deal marks a spectacular failure of Valeant's onetime acquisition strategy, as well as an incredible win for Cindy Whitehead, who now stands to make even more from the sexual dysfunction treatment she helped create than the $ 1 billion she initially sold it for.&raquas well as an incredible win for Cindy Whitehead, who now stands to make even more from the sexual dysfunction treatment she helped create than the $ 1 billion she initially sold it for.&raquas an incredible win for Cindy Whitehead, who now stands to make even more from the sexual dysfunction treatment she helped create than the $ 1 billion she initially sold it for.»

Relying on discounts will not be a viable long - term strategy, as it will dilute the brand's halo effect and make the move into athleisure even more difficult, according to Shelly Banjo at Bloomberg.

And of even greater worry should be what BAML sees as a potential failure of the so - called buy - the - dip strategy that's been so effective for so long.

The deal marks a spectacular failure of Valeant's onetime acquisition strategy, as well as an incredible win for Cindy Whitehead, the co-founder and former CEO of Sprout, who now stands to make even more from the sexual dysfunction treatment she helped create than the $ 1 billion she initially sold it for.

It could take at least two years to recover, maybe as many as 10 — or even more, says Erich Joachimsthaler, chief executive of global brand strategy consulting firm Vivaldi.

This is usually a bad idea, as most day traders lose money, even those with a solid strategy and good money management skills.

Reuters reports that most gains in 2017 were from investing long, but other crypto hedge funds — such as Bitspread, and Pantera Capital — were able to protect themselves during the bitcoin downturn and even see gains incorporating a multitude of strategies.

reports that most gains in 2017 were from investing long, but other crypto hedge funds — such as Bitspread, and Pantera Capital — were able to protect themselves during the bitcoin downturn and even see gains incorporating a multitude of strategies.

Allergan Plc's chief executive on Monday said he was opposed to fundamental changes to the drug company's business strategy, even as its board considers drastic moves like splitting the company, selling off assets or doing deals to turn around a steep drop in its share price.

More importantly, even if $ LULU does not play out as expected, you now know a simple, low - risk strategy for short selling former leading stocks by patiently waiting for a breakdown to key support, then selling short on the subsequent bounce into resistance.

But now — as Ray nears retirement, he has made the decision to share even more of the systems and strategies that have brought him such massive success in his deeply personal book Principles: Life & Work.

Advisors and investors that ignore fundamental research are doing themselves a disservice, as research has found that even technical - based strategies can improve with the use of fundamental analysis.

It doesn't mean that (even as a small - or medium - sized business) our branding strategies can't achieve what Starbucks has (although perhaps on a smaller scale).

I would argue that as Personalized Search becomes more prevalent in traditional user behavior, that the overall «stickiness» of your website and ease of accessibility to content will become even more important to your search engine optimization strategy.

As the name implies, an unconstrained bond fund isn't restricted to a sector or strategy or even a country.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

That Facebook pursued such a strategy is even less of a surprise than Google's imperious adoption of Wikipedia as conspiracy theory debunker: Facebook's motto was «Making the world more open and connected», and the company has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to do just that, whether users like it or not.

Thus, the «success» of diversification strategies was confused with luck during these times and such a strategy even provided incompetent financial consultants with a cover of credibility as it empowered them with an undeserved veneer of competency.

Even within my dividend portfolio, I combine DCA (with automatic DRIP), and market timing strategies (by using PE as a valuation measure in deciding whether to add to existing positions or buy into new ones).

If the thing blows up in a bad way, you're into damage control and even if it works, can you really sustain «controversy» as a strategy?

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary (not even if specifically stated), no Publication (including possible Recommendations) shall be construed as a representation or warranty (neither express nor implied) that the recipient will profit from trading in accordance with a trading strategy set forth in a Publication or that the recipient will not sustain losses from trading in accordance with a trading strategy set forth in a Publication.

Having a strategy is the important thing even if it is not the same as mine.