Sentences with phrase «moved its business model»

But now with plans for a second, smaller tablet and possibly even its own smartphone on the table, Microsoft is moving its business model towards what CEO Steve Ballmer calls a «devices and services» company.

It's improbable for that type of development model to exist in the form of disc - or cartridge - based releases in the game industry's current climate, and D3 hasn't moved its business model into the downloadable realm beyond a few token releases.

Not exact matches

Several companies are moving toward hiring on - demand employees; some, in fact, are relying on contractors to actually sustain their business model.

As soon as you move one element from one building block, it affects the entire business model.

It's a strategic move towards designing your innovative business model.

The trick is to be able to develop your business model and move to product development as quick as possible.

Finally, it's probably an incredibly dumb business model to be doing a lyrics site that hopes for Google traffic in a time when Google, like Bing, is moving toward providing direct answers.

Late last year, officials in Utah moved to ban Zenefits; the state's insurance commissioner, Todd Kiser, sent a letter to the company calling its business model a violation of state laws.

Heath and his cofounder Randy Goldberg were inspired by the apparel company Toms» «one - for - one» model, also popularized by the eyeglass maker Warby Parker, but began with the charitable component and moved on to a business next.

Even if a company's operations in Canada seem deeply entrenched, a move into a new territory offers an opportunity to reinvent the business model.

The company has expanded into other businesses to diversify away from the traditional news model, with moves like hosting live conferences, starting a wine club, and opening an online store selling branded products.

Peter Fuhrman, chairman and CEO, China First Capital, said Wanda's move to an «asset - light» business model presents major management challenges.

Until the company can move away from an ad - driven business model (which accounts for 90 percent of revenue), it will continue to make people's data available to advertisers and potentially bad agents.

Kumar said the new moves did not reflect any major change in the company's business model, with U.S. workers being compensated at the same level as H1 - B visa professionals.

Like its rivals such as SAP, Amazon.com and Microsoft, Oracle has focused on moving its business toward the cloud - computing model as sales of traditional software licenses struggle.

The fact that viable companies are able to sustain their business models by infusing them with readily available capital while they move closer to determining the best course of action for their long - term viability makes it more likely that they will succeed over time.»

As Germany looks to move to renewable sources of energy, some innovative ideas are being developed as mining companies rethink their business models.

Specific experience with hiring, firing and navigating difficult situations (company pivots, large scale business model changes or moving from old business systems to building new ones) also builds a strong case for a higher starting salary.

This reset signals our move toward an operating model that is sustainable and better reflects the needs of our current business.

This is a positive move for YouTube's business model, according to Haven, who believes it will appeal to advertisers more.

The move constitutes a major change in business model, but the Street isn't entirely convinced it's the right one.

The print - advertising revenue that used to prop up the business models of newspaper chains like Gannett and Tribune's former parent, Tribune Co., has disintegrated over the past decade as advertisers and readers have moved to digital platforms like Facebook and Google.

Breaking open your business and thinking about each different component of value and whether it can be interfaced with and offered to other parties is a really interesting model for agility moving forward.

In a world where even the lowly buggy whip has moved into the online realm (seriously, Google it), Yellow Media, that provider of inexpensive booster seats also known as the Yellow Pages, has been buying up rival phone directories and figuring out ways to make its antiquated business model work by slowly, so slowly, moving its services online.

«The industry needs to adapt to a new business model so things are changing, money is being moved around, there's margin compression for everybody so it requires the use of technology to solve some of these problems,» he says.

Moving to business models that capitalize on live events and interaction with models is one way the industry can battle the pirates.

Macroeconomists can contribute by moving beyond their traditional models of business cycles to contemplate the possibility of secular stagnation.

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So the failures of Microsoft to move beyond the rapidly evaporating Windows business model are attributed to the personal failings of its CEO.

Although the retirement industry has been moving toward fee neutrality over the last decade, it is this business model in which a non-fiduciary advisor is compensated by a plan provider that is most vulnerable to changes in the current DOL fiduciary rules.

I think a lot of these business models are moving towards a higher percentage of subscriptions, where the people who are getting the most value from you are contributing a disproportionate amount to the revenue.

In his book Predictable Revenue, author Aaron Ross talks about how forward - thinking sales companies like Salesforce.com moved to a specialized sales role model of selling (for example, Sales Development Representative (SDRs), Business Development Manager, Customer Success Managers, etc.).

While the SEC considers whether to extend a fiduciary duty to all advice givers, and the Department of Labor forges ahead on its revised definition of fiduciary, HighTower has moved ahead on its own, wrapping a strict fiduciary standard into a business model that meets client needs while giving top Wall Street brokers an innovative home from which to serve those clients and grow their individual businesses.

Moving forward, Fred Miller, Chair of the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act, tells ETHNews that once the language of the model law is fine - tuned by ULC's style committee, it will be presented to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association (ABA) for approval.

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In each case, moves into Engine 2 meant new competition, new cost structures and new economic models to run in parallel, and the new business took at least five years to flourish.

There is a great opportunity here for a new owner to move all the warehoused products to a fulfillment model and significantly increase the profits of the business.

When I ran my startups our venture investors scheduled board meetings each month for the first year or two, going to every six weeks a bit later, and then moving to quarterly after we found a profitable business model.

This focus on a model may cause you to move away from thinking about the competitive advantages of the business.

The move supplements Jack Dorsey's stretched position as a two - timing chief executive and brings in a much - needed money man to survey the micro-blogging service's foundering business model.

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«The operation environment has become more challenging, and on top of that, technology is moving very fast, with new business models disrupting traditional banking.

However, through a combination of strategic investments and development of supporting business models, Ford and other OEMs have begun to move to the forefront.»

«In our view, the 2017 half - year results reflected the fact the company is very much in strategy reset mode as it moves from a geographic based business model to an industry vehicle model,» Mr O'Shea said.

The read I get into the corporate announcement by HP's CEO Leo Apotheker is one of a strategic move to focus on challenging IBM with head - to - head similar business models.

But those moves won't necessarily offset slowing growth in their core businesses built on the cable - TV model combining subscription and advertising revenue.

Our company business model consistently reflects the entertainment, information, active, cultural, educated, involved lifestyles of our community, the people who choose to live, work, move, visit and own second homes here.

I understand the concern about moving into a «business model.»

There is enough evidence around us, in terms of business models to show that the world is moving towards a shared economy.

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