Sentences with phrase «rather than an innovation»

As for the «awesome technologies» that sprang from Jobs's Apple laboratories, would not an impartial observer describe the iPad as just a small laptop computer without a keyboard and a cover rather than an innovation on par with electricity, vaccination or hybrid crops?

(And out of desperation, rather than innovation.)

There are nuclear experts who say that the industry needs more standardisation rather than innovation, to bring costs down.

And while it's pretty clear that Trank reacted with a hard - to - excuse volatility, it's frankly impossible to excuse the fact that the seed of the problem was a potent distrust of a creative filmmaker by a studio that focuses on insidiously calculated marketing rather than innovation.

Doesn't that model imply that replication rather than innovation is the right way, and that this is clearly what teachers are looking for?

As my colleague Heather Staker has pointed out, focusing on teacher agency alone could also limit innovation to the four walls of the classroom, rather than innovation of whole school design, because teachers may still lack the budget and authority to redesign learning full stop.

Rather than an innovation as David Plank suggests in the article, the state system is a subterfuge designed to protect the adults in the education system rather than the students, parents, and community.

Ripley criticizes SmartBoards, one - to - one technology, and other costly resources that are used as digital proxies rather than innovations, essentially wasting money.

I think that's more than can be said of corporate publishers who tried to save their failing business model through collusion rather than innovation.

When Venture Beat interviewed Brand Keys» President, Robert Passikoff, he theorizes that why Apple might have fallen in consumer loyalty is because consumers are seeking higher degrees of innovation, and that Apple's iPad mini was more of a reaction to smaller tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7 rather than an innovation.

looks like the playstation device will just be full of rehashes of ps3 games rather than the innovation the industry needs.

While this does offer a challenge, it feels more like a step backward, rather than an innovation to be praised.

My primary motivation for teaching my students about the importance of sustainable food comes from my love of flavor rather than innovation.

As an Android purist, I'm not normally a fan of Samsung apps, since history has shown they usually offer redundancy rather than innovation.

Not exact matches

Tribal branding is focused on a new kind of consumer — one that isn't a consumer, but a prosumer, helping to form the direction for demand and innovation rather than absorbing the new direction created by the producer.

He said the exchanges should focus on innovation, rather than chase each other.

Rather than chasing new innovations, the company believes its traditional business model will keep it safe.

Although Jobs's biggest talent was for product design rather than engineering, he was very quick to see how technological innovations could improve existing products or help create new ones.

Here's what Curry and the Globe shared from the conclusion of the final report on the focus groups: «When asked, there was strong support for the government offering subsidies to support innovation, rather than providing tax cuts or investments, particularly for smaller organizations,» states the final report summarizing the research.

That's because, rather than handing the capital over to any one of 17 government agencies with a finger in the innovation pie, or giving the money to the Business Development Bank of Canada, which deployed just $ 408 million of its $ 18.4 billion balance sheet to the venture capital industry, the Conservatives have decided to invest that money directly in entrepreneurs.

Stay the distance and view innovation as a continuous process, rather than a one - time, flash - in - the - pan «Eureka» moment.

Make creative thinking a priority in your business strategy, rather than simply thinking of it as an added plus — it's crucial for inspiring innovation.

Rather than taking a typical allocation of equally splitting hires into sales, marketing, client support, engineering, etc., for its mobile email app (it's free for consumers, by the way), it prioritized innovation and the development of its vision.

In terms of outcomes, should we put a greater emphasis on innovation, creativity, and employee engagement, rather than just productivity and efficiency?

It is impossible to grow if you are not challenged, so maintaining a culture that embraces challenges rather than avoid them is essential for innovation.

Optimal marginality also underpins IdeaConnection, an eight - year - old, Victoria - based, open - innovation platform that assembles teams of solvers rather than relying on individuals to crack seekers» conundrums.

In the case of Uber, by expanding the supply of drivers and offering a far better experience, many more customers decided to use taxi services rather than other modes of transportation, expanding the marketplace and eventually spurring on both innovation and competition.

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

While it remains uncertain whether the rate increase will pass legal muster, by focusing solely on short - term financial consequences rather than long - term growth and innovation, the PUD is shortchanging Washington's citizens by driving new technology businesses away from the state:

But it's worth asking: Has the company lost something by making innovation the province of an elite few, rather than a part of every engineer's weekly routine?

Smaller, independent brands are seen by many consumers, especially younger ones, to be more hip and healthy and rather than compete with them many big food and drink companies have looked to buy into and learn from startup innovation, a leaf straight out of Silicon Valley's playbook.

That innovation was stimulated by high oil prices rather than by regulatory pressure.

It's a bit odd to me that the import of this meeting is framed in terms of financial products rather than fueling the innovation economy.

Musk has always approached innovation this way: as a massive bet on the inevitability of tomorrow, rather than what he can deliver today.

In the years leading up to last fall's boom of interest in crypto, Silver says that he used to be heckled at every conference he spoke at, but that now, «rather than being booed off the stage and being told that everything was a utility token, I was wrong, that I was killing innovation, and that I was this horrible person,» people are actually listening.

However, the counter-argument was given that the banks recognize that these innovations are inevitable, so the banks have an incentive to be active participants, rather than facing challenges from outside, such as from global players like Google and Apple.

It protects our customers and aids our commitment to making sure that Bitcoin is associated with positive aspects such as innovation, rather than crime.

Banks initially responded to the competition from mortgage managers by product innovation aimed at new borrowers, rather than cutting their main standard variable interest rates.

Firms engage in political «rent seeking» — lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets — rather than competing on innovation.

The modern project of controlling nature is founded on the belief that technological innovation improves the human condition and should be encouraged rather than controlled.

But rather than incentivize teaching innovation that would allow science educators to discuss religion and ethics --- for example, creationism in light of evolution and vice versa, or the scientific and ethical implications of stem cells and in vitro fertilization — many teachers are afraid to even mention these issues, despite their importance, for fear of losing their jobs.

The unusual step was taken by the responsible parliamentary committee of asking those who were opposed to the innovation to prove that it was wrong rather than expecting the supporters of change to justify the change [8].

Roof examines the process of «traditioning,» which has been turned upside down to foster innovation rather than continuity.

The decisive innovation was the idea that one wage earner should be able to support a wife and a few children, rather than that every employable person in a household should support himself or herself and some fraction of a baby or two.

Dan said the reason the show runs every two years rather than annually is to provide ample time for innovation and R&D to bear fruit.

How is it possible that NZ has an unfair advantage?!!??! We may want to look to NZ's innovation in the dairy sector rather than blaming the monopolistic nature.

Why are we letting Silicon Valley problem solve and wade in to remedy the food crisis rather than it being led by existing brands and with the heritage, expertise and knowledge that it should take to drive innovation?

Roughly one - quarter of consumers say technology options are important features that factor into their decision to choose a restaurant, underscoring that technology is rapidly becoming an expectation rather than a novelty when dining out (2014 Technology Innovations Consumer Survey, National Restaurant Association).

Product innovation is important, but with tweaks rather than revolutionary.

Wouldn't be nice if the media focused more on these types of innovations, rather than beating * only * the pizza as a veggie drum?