Sentences with phrase «of slow innovation»

One of the former employees disputed this characterization of slow innovation, saying that the last couple of years had been spent building infrastructure features, which aren't as visible to the outside world.

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Calacanis, a former Twitter booster, was harsh in his criticism of the social media company, saying that under CEO Jack Dorsey — who is also chief executive of Square — Twitter has seen slow growth and little innovation when it comes to new products.

Yes, you want to assist people, but not at the expense of losing your edge or slowing down your innovation.

The Economist notes that slowing down the pace of innovation in the name of human stability mean seem wise on the surface, but it can actually have the opposite effect:

In the case of huge industries such as retail, healthcare, and education that maintenance starts to not only slow down the industry and innovation but it also increases costs, makes the customer experience more frustrating, and ultimately distances the seller from the buyer.

If the U.S. struggles, global growth will falter, the pace of innovation will slow, and the U.S. will find it hard to lead efforts to open the global trading and investment system,» states the report.

As this makes clear, killing net neutrality will make ISPs rich but kill innovation — and even potentially slow down the growth of the U.S. economy, which is partially driven by the success of its major tech companies.

But it also serves an incredibly important role as an enabler and incubator of innovation and positive forward momentum for society as a whole, which is something that simply will not continue if those lone individuals become disadvantaged by getting their services blocked, slowed or effectively taxed by usage limits.

«As regulatory, technological and cultural gaps all work to slow innovation adoption, Viola Fintech accelerates the integration of innovative ideas into financial institutions while providing the necessary resources to fintech companies as they scale to transform the financial sector.»

He also argues that millennial - driven innovation is wringing inflation out of the economy, causing it to move higher, but at a much slower pace than we've historically seen.

The slow pace of innovation and relatively late start on the business side mean DfB is still catching up with core features competitors have, and that enterprises demand.

The relentless speed of technology innovation has transformed the world in an amazingly short period of time, and slow tech companies tend not to make it.

«However, as I have been involved as an entrepreneur in delivering innovation to the energy sector, I have observed the structural challenges that tend to slow the rate of adoption and scaling.

So, the government can choose to slow down the march of technology, especially one that is likely to impact 100 million jobs as the autonomous vehicles innovation would do.

Bureaucracy drives out good people, slows down decision making, kills innovation and is often the petri dish of bad politics»

Yet, the pace of innovation and new efficiencies to be had from shrinking transistors has slowed.

Celebrating 20 years of success, Founders Brewing shows no signs of slowing down in innovation and inspiration.

For this truly delicious taco filling, I cut the cooking from fifty - seven hours to six in a slow cooker, and used some clever Mexican - style innovations, namely using multiple types of dry chilies and orange juice for tang and sweetness.

Irish whiskey innovation is showing no sign of slowing down, as Pernod Ricard unveils a new Jameson expression aged in beer barrels.

While the speed of technical innovation in kiteboarding equipment has slowed after a three - year surge, the influences of wakeboarding, surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding and snowboarding have made kiteboarding the fastest - evolving water sport in terms of maneuvers.

Professor Sam Afrane also described the current mentorship system for private universities as cumbersome, indicating that it slows the growth of private institutions in terms of innovation and advancement.

One obvious flaw with such a «wait and see» approach is that it slows the pace of innovation with manufacturers not wanting to invest heavily in technology which is not going to be profitable in the long - run.

Next to this they suffered from megalobusinesscitis, which is risk aversion, lack of innovation, slow reaction to market changes, and the belief that creativity can be achieved by acquisitions.

«Ill - considered policies driven by these sorts of misguided propaganda campaigns, those are certainly complicating and in some cases slowing the progress of biotech innovations,» Giddings said.

They must often develop and test their designs and prototypes one at a time, which slows the pace of innovation.

«Once high ecological diversity had evolved, the pace of innovation slowed.»

In reality, however, rampant problems in research funding — some attributable to the system and others cultural — are slowing down China's potential pace of innovation.

This stand - alone Painkiller expansion is pure, stupid fun, despite slow loads and an utter lack of innovation.

More charitably, we might conclude that just slowing down the pace of innovation is appropriate in the face of the potential job losses.

Pestronk, who most recently served as director of special initiatives in the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), has observed that in education, the R&D cycle too often is slow and uncoordinated, leaving the sector starved for critical innovation.

Unionizing these schools will limit teachers» academic innovation and constrain opportunities for their students, which will slow the educational improvements that have been made in each of these low - income communities.

The new entry - level $ 79 Kindle is a good example of just how slow innovation is in the field of dedicated ebook readers and the electronic ink industry.

Considering how the pace of technological innovation is changing our world, airlines and the regulatory body have been very slow in adopting the change.

But innovation has slowed down since 2014, when the Surface Pro 3 got a fully adjustable kickstand to give the screen a broader range of viewing angles, similar to real laptops.

The big problem when relying on exclusivity is that you quite often start slowing innovation at some point, on top of getting bad PR.

When Lazaridis was pressed about the company's slowed innovation, his response was something along the lines of «we were here first.»

It's not quite a monopoly, sure, but the company's utter domination of the American market is the sort of thing that tends to slow innovation.

But even though the Atrix's accompanying laptop dock is slow and and expensive, the idea behind it is one of the first innovations in mobile technology in quite a while.

They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $ 48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to «disrupt» them, and whose chief executive said recently «even well - meaning gatekeepers slow innovation» (where «innovation» is code - speak for «opportunities for me to turn a profit»).

It's not clear how well the average Android application would perform on the slow - refresh e-ink display, but if the Nook is truly an open device, I have no doubt that will spur some level of application innovation.

But I'll go ahead and keep up the tradition and make a prediction for 2013 e-book sales anyway: based on the lack of innovation in e-readers (yes, we have lighted e-readers, but no color or flexible screens yet) and the saturation of the market, I predict that e-book sales will continue to slow their rate of increase, perhaps increasing another 20 - 25 % over this year's sales figures, which would put 2013 e-book sales between $ 1.75 and $ 2 billion.

Is small business growth slowing due to lack of innovation and initiative?

The challenges that the world faces in the next decades regarding climate change will likely have to be addressed by changing consumption patterns and technological innovations; changes in population size in the most developed countries, with the possible exception of the United States, is a relatively slow process that occurs over many decades and that will unlikely to have a significant impact on how the world resolves the challenges of climate change and resource constraints.

«Whether it's the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life - saving cures; or the innovations to remake our industries and create 21st - century jobs — today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation,» he said.

In the meantime fish resources are collapsed, deforestation continues, the quality of the atmosphere is in decline, poverty and population swell, innovation is slow and limited to a small percentage of the big picture, and agreements get diffused as this one will due to the Babylon affect.

However, the IPCC has certainly taken up tasks outside its mandate; the IPCC has been accused of haughtiness; innovation is slow; quality may have declined; and the IPCC may have used its power to hinder competitors.

Government is generally a poor source of innovation, so having the government «develop» the new technologies is probably a bad idea economically, and slower for technology development.

If serious cuts are enacted, the pace of innovation will slow, harming the economy, energy security and global environmental quality.

At the end of the day, Pruitt's irresponsible actions are a danger to our health, our wallets, will slow down the EV market and U.S. auto innovation.

Public hesitancy and activist campaigns have slowed innovation in GMOs, and the fight devours millions of dollars and working hours every year.