They have usually grown to be large because they possess some kind of advantage, and the fact that they are large gives them economies
of scale advantages.
The other guys — the Samsungs, HTCs, Motorolas, RIMs — can't match Apple's hardware design, don't even try to match Apple in terms of original and differentiated software, and struggle to match Apple's prices because they don't have the economy
of scale advantages Apple does.
Benefits of a small business Economies
of scale Advantages / dis advantages How is the size of the business measured?
Not exact matches
But having multiple products in a pipeline offers
advantages, including obvious economies
of scale.
The
scale advantages are obvious, but the costs
of executing another merger and the challenge
of folding in yet another culture (and more debt) into this already unwieldy company seem daunting.
The idea
of having a lean core organization that gives their «peers» access to the
advantages of corporate
scale, processes and resources is a powerful concept that will disrupt more sectors
of our economy.
Telstra chief executive Andy Penn says the days where companies do all
of their innovation, research and development internally are over, while new creative and more nimble startups are proving that the
scale of a business is no longer a competitive
advantage.
Nevertheless, Stripe has something
of a first - mover
advantage, Peterson says, and its deals with big Silicon Valley companies will give it
scale.
One
of Saildrone's biggest
advantages is how its vessels can help
scale research.
And what's more, ambiverts actually have
advantages over those who live more on the ends
of the introversion - extroversion
scale.
Scaling isn't difficult for companies prepared to take
advantage of new opportunities.
Maybe you still remember the days when competitive
advantage was all about economies
of scale, advertising power and service versus price.
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There are clearly
advantages of scale, but they cap out.
The partnership would allow the two to unlock sales across Southeast Asia, with Geely injecting technology and
scale into Proton, while taking
advantage of the Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA), which has reduced or eliminated tariffs on autos in the region.
The future
of small business is more and more about mutual - benefit partnering on a global
scale, which we call «the reciprocity
advantage.»
Asked to rank that process in terms
of competitive
advantage on a
scale of one to 10, Ammann said it was a 12.
«This is a great way where a national brand can engage with us with a consistent level
of service and take
advantage of the
scale,» said Stan Chia, senior vice president
of operations, Grubhub.
While this argument can take many forms, it often centers around two separate concerns: whether community institutions have the economies
of scale to go toe - to - toe with the biggest banks; and whether the «too big to fail» crowd has unfair
advantages that slants the playing field in their direction.
This would let you laser - target many niches but also bring the
advantages of scale to the business.
In the context
of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive
advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions
of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled
scale and spreads features
of its authoritarian system.»
The smaller banks in particular, but perhaps also larger ones, will increasingly outsource «non-core» activities such as cheque processing and computing to specialist suppliers who can take
advantage of scale economies.
New technologies, such as farm machinery and seed varieties, drove the consolidation
of Prairie farms to take
advantage of the greater ability to cultivate and harvest crops on a larger
scale.
Wang, ranked the 39th richest mainlander by Forbes, defined BYD as more than just a manufacturer
of batteries and cars, pushing hard his message that BYD will take
advantage of the increasing demand for new - energy vehicles to expand
scale.
Through its Gigafactory, it is able to take
advantage of the economies
of scale to drive down cost.
Instead
of hard - coded links, the Pitney Bowes Single View
of Customer solution takes
advantage of new technologies that allow you to uncover obvious and non-obvious relationships, no matter the source,
scale or type
of data.
This approach would permit the company to maintain its involvement across multiple lines
of business and permit it to enjoy the benefits
of scale while mitigating the concern that Amazon could unfairly
advantage its own business or unfairly discriminate among platform users to gain leverage or market power.444 Coupling nondiscrimination with common carrier obligations — requiring platforms to ensure open and fair access to other businesses — would further limit Amazon's power to use its dominance in anticompetitive ways.
Basing your business in this global industry cluster brings enormous
advantages: Network effects, economies
of scale, access to the world's best talent, deep pools
of capital, a rich ecosystem
of resources and know - how for both startups and mature companies, a nurturing entrepreneurial culture, infectious energy, and strong trust relationships that make the impossible possible.
We have identified eight forces that erode the Founder's Mentality and the
advantages of size as companies
scale.
All that guff about comparative
advantage and economies
of scale and the gains from trade wouldn't be very convincing.
Rebates generated through Sweden's Premium Pension system will be paid out on 5 May, but only one in 10 users
of the system recognise the
scale and
advantage that the rebates bring them, according to the Swedish Investment Fund Association (Fondbolagens förening).
Bitfury's market share, unmatched computing power, and ability to
scale, in combination with a Board
of Directors that former hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz and renowned venture capitalist Bill Tai have both agreed to serve on, offers Hut 8 an extreme
advantage in a competitive marketplace.
Strong competitive
advantages: high customer retention, high switching costs, strong brand, excellent economies
of scale / high barriers to entry.
Now I know the companies manage to find some good, hungry vendors out there that will help make the product cheaper, but as soon as the economy turns around and that vendor then gets a chance to reprice the manufacturing
of it, you find yourself in trouble because now you've already priced your product low to take
advantage of scale of that product.
Multinational carmakers arrived with the sort
of insurmountable
advantages made possible by their global
scale: superior models, well - known brands, and financial muscle.
Competitive
advantages, including
scale, existing patents on blockbuster drugs (such as Enbrel), broad geographical and product diversification, R&D, and a strong pipeline
of drugs (16 compounds in Phase III trials) give this firm the strengths it needs to fight risks like competition, litigation, and regulation.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust's relationship with the «big brother» (Blackstone Real Estate) offers a huge
advantage in which the former's access to proprietary deal flow and property and market information is a valuable differentiator, given the
scale of Blackstone Mortgage Trust's real estate business.
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advantages of scale, global reach and operating capabilities; and technology and its impact on the business.
Economy
of Scale - This is the possible cost
advantages a company gets through expansion.
Capital One is much larger than EverBank, and its
advantage in
scale translates to a greater variety
of products and better access to branch locations.
Startups can take
advantage of some
of our programs like Access Silicon Valley,
Scale - up USA, and Startup Bootcamp Silicon Valley.
The
advantages your SME can gain by
scaling globally well outweigh what can seem like a daunting process, especially when you make use
of the resources available to SMEs on their export journey.
Capital One's mortgage business is dwarfed by the volume
of lending at larger national banks, but its smaller
scale seems to produce an
advantage in terms
of superior loan servicing.
The core
advantage of this method is cost; Hydrostor can deliver grid -
scale energy storage at a fraction
of the price
of competing technologies.
While the company may have a marginal
advantage due to refinements to the production process and the
scale of the Gigafactory (if they ever get production running smoothly), experts project the competition to catch up very soon.
«This reflects the necessity to
scale cannabis businesses, to get some kind
of advantage, and to explore strategic opportunities, both through acquisitions and international expansion.»
«The
scale gives us an
advantage, because we have such a depth
of MBA talent, the world's largest companies all look to recruit students from Rotman.»
Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic»
scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope
of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the
scale of human lifetime and
of generations.7 But worse than this from the point
of view
of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities
of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties
of linear time, at least in terms
of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every
advantage they gained from the use
of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon
of presence.
Industrialization made possible the development
of the
advantages of the market on a larger
scale.
The point is that we may judge according to it whether we ought to achieve a better consequence by breaking a promise, by asking whether we would regard it as desirable that regularly when the
scales are balanced in a certain way all persons should break a promise
of a certain solemnity in order to achieve an
advantage of a certain magnitude.