Sentences with phrase «model of the life cycle»

Such a guide would almost certainly begin by discussing the benefits of taking a phased approach to the restaurant project and would probably include a model of the life cycle of a restaurant.

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The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Myersdorf said a fast - charge phone would cost $ 100 - $ 150 more than current models and would ultimately be able to handle 1,500 recharge / discharge cycles, giving it about three years of life.

The underlying assumption behind all the models in this chapter is that a congregation has an exciting possibility and responsibility to create a comprehensive marriage and family nurture program, beginning with remote preparation for marriage and extending through all the changing seasons of the life cycle of a family.

In Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impaLife - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impCycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impalife cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impcycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impacts.

The thesis contains details of specific tools, methodology recommendations and new models for collecting LCA data, which are aimed at anyone working on the development of electric - powered vehicles using life cycle assessment.

For the first time, their study combines the strengths of simulations based on integrated energy - economy - climate models that estimate cost - optimal long - term strategies to meet climate targets with life cycle assessment approaches.

NathanaelGreene of the Natural Resources Defense Council responds that it isappropriate to incorporate economic models into life - cycle emissionsanalyses such as these.

The physics of stellar interiors are input into the computer model and the entire star's life cycle is simulated in a short time.

This workshop explored mathematical tools and problems in describing the life cycle, stage conversion, and clonal expansion of T. gondii by bringing together expertise in parasitic diseases, epidemiology, population genetics, disease modeling, network dynamics, evolutionary dynamics, and nonlinear analysis.

A conceptual model of how these factors affect the life cycle of grouse has been drafted, and we are gathering comments on it.

According to the paper, these started as analytical models studying parts of the ticks» life cycles, progressed to simulations of their complete life cycles on to the current emphasis, which is on GIS - based bioclimatic envelope models derived from remotely sensed data and tick presence records, and then back to simulations with spatially explicit, agent - based models.

The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) experiment in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north - central Argentina is designed to improve understanding of cloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multi-scale models can be improved.

Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, a nematode parasite of rodents, has a parasitic life cycle that is an extremely useful model for the study of human hookworm infection, particularly in regards to the induced immune response.

Addressing one of the most popular topics in the yoga profession, this book offers sixty - seven model sequences of yoga poses (asanas) that cover the broad range of yoga student experience, including multiple sequences for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students; yoga for kids, teens, women across the life cycle, and seniors; classes to relieve depression and anxiety; and sequences for each of the major chakras and ayurvedic constitutions.

And because this reframing of failure is modeled so publicly and systemically by the portfolio defenses, our teachers, convinced of its power, tend to recreate similar cycles of failure and redemption in their day - to - day classroom instruction, where school culture lives.

It is necessary that all involved in the life cycle of a product to understand their role in this new model.

In addition, they used paint and draw software to create visual models of the plant life cycle and to illustrate scenes from award - winning books.

Branding exercise aside, a strategy revision is likely of more interest to German hot - rod enthusiasts: Where RS models during the past decade - plus tended to arrive at the tail end of a given car's life cycle — and even skip certain generations of those cars — they will now arrive within the first year or two of a new model's introduction, and RS badging will be present on 10 different vehicles by the end of 2018, with the new RS5 up next at the beginning of the year.

The model has a five - year life - cycle and engineers are currently working to develop a way to build a Spider version that won't spoil the coupe's sensational rear view with a pair of fat buttresses.

Automakers tend to introduce special - edition models near the end of a car's life cycle.

Introduced in 2010, at the end of the 997's life cycle, it could have been just another run - out model.

The subtly upgraded derivatives had been spied testing recently, and follow a pattern established by Porsche of offering a greater number of GTS models earlier in the product life cycle.

During the development of new models, #Audi takes a look at all the environmental impacts throughout the vehicles» respective life cycle.

The models that are likely to be at the end of their life cycle are: Nano, Indica, Indigo CS and Sumo.

We always came in with these top performance models at the end of the general models» life cycle.

Audi sold 327,500 units of the A4 sedan, Avant station wagon and A4 allroad quattro worldwide last year, down just 3.8 percent even though the model is approaching the end of its life cycle.

The strategy to boost interest in a model by launching an RS derivative late into its life cycle comes at a high cost: Audi misses out on the sales generated by a high - performance derivative for the majority of the model's life cycle.

As is the usual case with a model refresh this close to the end of a generational life cycle, there won't be any major updates, but a few subtle changes will make all of the difference.

With the current generation Elantra mid-size sedan heading towards the end of its life - cycle, Hyundai has commenced testing the next generation model and the first of the prototype was spotted in China this week.

But, rather than include all the models that got the axe last year, I focused on those that most of us will miss and the vehicles that, at some point in their life cycle, made a significant impact on the market.

BMW has led with its strongest suit by introducing high - end variants of its 3 Series LCI («Life - Cycle Impulse» — or mid-life refresh by another name) in advance of entry - level models for the local market.

And it came quite quickly as well, considering the ninth - gen model only ran a total of four years — a very short life cycle for a car as raved about as the Accord.

It says the MkIII accounts for 19.2 per cent of the market's dominant small car segment — up from 18.8 for the MkII and 17.7 for the original — and that the Maxx variant will account for the lion's share (40 per cent) of sales this year, although the base Neo is expected to outsell it over the model's life cycle.

While BMW launched the 5 - Series LCI (Life Cycle Impulse) i.e. facelift models in India earlier this year, the M5 was still being sold under the pre-LCI avatar and now it seems the German automaker is gearing up for the launch of the 2014 BMW M5.

The Toyota exec explained that the last three generations of the Prius have averaged a six - year life cycle and the current model was introduced in 2009, suggesting that the fourth generation is coming in 2015.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Transit Connect outperformed 38 other Minivans, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Flex performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 124 Full - size SUVs for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Explorer performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 124 Full - size SUVs for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the C - MAX Energi performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 57 Wagons for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Edge performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 104 Mid-size SUVs for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Outlander Sport performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 100 Compact Crossovers for model year 2016.

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In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Rogue performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 201 Crossovers for model year 2016.

ASG's 2016 study also found the Nissan LEAF to hold the smallest life - cycle carbon footprint of any model year 2016 automobile available in the North American market, again earning the 2016 BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE Award.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CX - 5 outperformed 201 other Crossovers, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Pathfinder outperformed 124 Full - size SUVs, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CX - 3 outperformed 100 other Compact Crossovers, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

ASG's economic performance model shows the abridged life - cycle carrying and operating costs of vehicle ownership to assess the economic benefits of owning and operating conventional and alternatively powered vehicles.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Focus Electric outperformed 287 Compact cars, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.