Sentences with phrase «sector business model»

EMDs may focus on certain market sectors (e.g. oil and gas, real estate, minerals, technology, etc.) or may have a broad cross sector business model.

Not exact matches

That disruption is omnipresent because there are now tech companies everywhere in the economy — companies whose central missions are technology - centric, and those in other sectors that are making technical innovations central to their business models.

Landscape architects are seeking to take advantage of a long - standing business model operating in the building sector to broaden their service offering and boost their bottom line.

These are more than buzzworthy ventures with youthful founders — they're strategic business models that may very well be on their way to iconic status in their respective sectors.

The European Central Bank warned on Thursday that banks need to boost their profitability and business models amid the risks that the sector faces.

But rising delinquencies have made it harder to raise funds for fresh loans, prompting the sector to review its business model, which tends to attract borrowers with low credit quality.

In this case, when we looked at the e-commerce or online shopping sector, which has been growing significantly in the region, and specifically in Dubai, its usual business model wasn't very appealing for us.

This free - market model would release businesses from government interference, increase diversion rates and create jobs in the recycling sector, Harris added.

I'm thinking about enterprises like Uber, Airbnb and other peer - to - peer or sharing business models that are using the advantages of today's technology to launch an assault on an established business sector.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

Prioritize advice from people who have worked in a similar sector or know your business model best.

As a legislative policy arm, WIPP identifies important trends and opportunities and provides a collaborative model for the public and private sectors to increase the economic power of women - owned businesses.

Per Price, ASIC has chosen to maintain an «open mind when it comes to new technologies and «early - days» business models,» believing that Australia's FinTech and RegTech sectors could flourish in the «right regulatory environment.»

The Hartford site, which is yet to be determined, will help the company reach the New England market and expand the local workforce to help customers compete in insurance, health care and manufacturing sectors that are increasingly establishing digital business models.

This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the «buzz» and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in North America.

On - demand and smart hardware (IoT) are two of the sectors that are particularly susceptible to the highs and lows of funding behavior in a volatile market, especially those that have a weaker business model reliant on rapid expansion.

While traditionally in lower - profit and lower - value industries such as food, retail, and other services, worker cooperatives are now on the upswing in high - tech and other business sectors (http://www.isthmuseng.com/inWisconsin) and are converting existing small businesses to this model (http://institute.coop/workers-owners and http://institute.coop/resources/successful-cooperative-ownership-transitions-case-studies-conversion-privately-held).

While many companies in less economically sensitive industries, particularly those in the consumer staples sector, meet our criteria for potential investment, we believe that investors are currently assigning excessively high valuations to companies that offer non-cyclical business models.

It's a business model that is affecting change in numerous sectors, most notably for websites and internet - based stores.

As the digital health sector matures we expect to continue seeing more and larger deals, greater diversity in both private and public investors, and business models that continue to be refined as startups gain market experience and understanding.

Government space programs and private sector initiatives are increasingly overlapping; both sides are championing a return to crewed deep - space missions, and new business models have democratized access to space to an unprecedented degree.

GDPR is not sector - specific and some firms are unsure of its implications to their particular business models.

The savvy Canadian is the co-founder and chairman of Toronto based Franco - Nevada (FNV 94.06 1.61 %) and pioneered the royalty business model in the gold mining sector based on the model used in the oil - and - gas industry.

These investment opportunities are across all industries and sectors, but we are primarily focusing on what we believe to be high - quality business models that are benefiting from multi-year secular growth trends.

Many more companies outside the tech sector label are leveraging data and analytics to evolve their business models.

Even if California production declines, continuing development of organic dairy production in the traditional milk - shed states, lower feed grain prices, and diversity in the business models used for organic dairy production could support expansion of the U.S. organic dairy sector.

The megatrends illustrated in Figure 1 represent five significant trends in the global sector which are already changing the F&A products demanded by consumers and the business models of F&A companies.

These science and technology investments must be supported by business and ecosystem decisions that improve culture, skills, business models and knowledge within the sector.

But in the past few weeks the sector took a fresh round of hits when franchise group Aussie Farmers collapsed, RFG announced an $ 88 million loss and flagged up to 200 franchise - run stores would close, while pizza giant Domino's reported disappointing results on the back of franchisees complaining about a brutal business model, and Caltex announced it was ditching its franchise model days before a damning report was released by the workplace regulator that found 76 per cent of its franchised stores had payroll compliance breaches that included underpaying workers.

It is currently playing out in the live animal export sector, where the demise of local processing opened the door for a live export sector, which in turn through its simple business model has compromised livestock welfare and alienated many consumers, reduced employment in Top End towns which once had abattoirs, and added risk to cattle business profitability by providing only one market outlet.

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

The initiative seeks to export the business model used to develop the nanotechnology sector in Albany, which has grown the past 12 years to include some 13,000 jobs at more than 60 companies and the development of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of SUNY Albany into a world - class university program.

The project is designed to have a significant transformational impact on the Ghana forest plantation sector by supporting a new business model that will serve as an example to other investors, producing wood products which have the quality and sustainability stamp that will help meet increasing market demand while avoiding pressure on natural reserve forests.

The historical energy utility business model is breaking up, and the challenge for policy makers is to be midwives for the birth of a new energy sector.

The model involves the state identifying business sectors to target for growth and recruiting developers to build facilities and seed them with anchor tenants who can in turn attract other related businesses to build a critical mass of related activity.

In the «business as usual» scenario, the auto industry followed its current rate of vehicle diversification — utilizing efficient internal combustion, electric and hybrid models, and the power sector utilized mostly natural gas and renewable plants.

However, developing a crowdlending platform has not always been easy; this is why researchers have asked which strategies an entrepreneur could implement to develop an innovative business model for the existing parties, banks, and for their future competitors: other platforms in the sector.

«Key market players and national organisations from the advertisement sector have expressed concern about the impact the project will have on established business models,» continues Araujo.

In addition to conducting and funding research to develop more effective and safer therapies, NCI has thriving research programs in critically important areas like survivorship, delivery of care, primary prevention, screening, and quality of life — areas that are not traditionally supported by the private sector because they have limited commercial value or are not a good fit with traditional pharmaceutical and biotech business models.

Because of our innovative strategy and business model, the SMA Foundation frequently serves as an advisor to government, non-profits, universities, professional societies, and the private sector.

CSDC's business model has expanded in direct response to the growth of the charter school movement and its emerging financial sector.

When Kevin Sweeney left the private sector to join the Foisie Business School in 2012, it didn't take long for him to notice an opportunity to apply WPI's project - based learning model to the socio - economic issues in the region where he used to work: the Pioneer Valley, a mix of urban, rural, and suburban communities in western Massachusetts.

C21 Canada is a unique blend of national education associations and knowledge sector businesses united in their belief that 21st Century models of learning must be adopted in public education on an urgent basis to position Canadians for economic, social and personal success in the high skills, knowledge and innovation based economy.

Publishing professionals from around the world meet here with partners from the technology sector and from related creative industries, such as film and games; it is here that new cooperation agreements and business models find their first inspiration.

Self - publishing does appear to be getting stronger and it seems to be connected to both a sharper business model in that sector itself, and an improving path from that sector to the traditional commercial market.

Obviously, there are differences in the working and business models of both of these sectors of the entertainment industry, and those differences will be published in the final article tomorrow.

We want to see projects that use digital technology to enhance audience reach and / or develop new business models for the arts sector.

For their part, LCD suppliers based in Taiwan, such as AU Optronics and ChiMei Innolux, reportedly are adjusting their business models — some to focus on tablets for the education sector, and others to supply tablets for the white - box market in China.

Although books are just part of their business model, they dominant the literary sector.