Sentences with phrase «were strategy based»

The games I played were strategy based so had no end point or final level to reach.

Martha is alive and well at countless meetings at which there is no vision, consultations at which there is no passion for an authentic ecclesial life, planning groups in which there is no strategy based on the Gospel.

Charm pricing — also known as psychological pricing — is a strategy based on the theory that certain prices have a psychological impact.

Boosting your portfolio's allocation to oil stocks because you think OPEC is about to cut their production quotas, or selling bonds because you think interest rates are about to rise are strategies based on speculation about the future.

Northgard, developed by Shiro Games, is a strategy based game with a Norwegian element where your explorers are in search of a world full of mystery along with the added elements of danger.

This is a strategy based on a part truth: that we should be utilizing energy sources that are abundant, reliable, and low - cost.

Not exact matches

He's also willing to collaborate, a strategy evident in the merger with Kairos Therapeutics, another Vancouver - based biotech.

Maintaining an existing customer base is easier — and cheaper — than trying to replace lost customers, so it's worth investing in a thorough marketing mail strategy that lets your most valued customers know how important they are to you.

«It's always hard to know exactly where to put your money these days given how rates and spreads are so low, but on a relative basis we still think there's value in EM debt,» Matt Tucker, head of the iShares fixed income strategy team, said this week during a panel discussion at the Morningstar ETF Conference in Chicago.

One of those revisionists is Mitchell Goldberg, president of ClientFirst Strategy, based in Melville, N.Y. Metrics like P / E and price - to - book are subjective tools that never mattered as much as most investors thought they did, he says.

«For more than six months, dollar - liability flows have outstripped dollar - asset flows but that is now reversing which is helping the dollar,» said Hans Redeker, head of global FX strategy at Morgan Stanley based in London.

According to Jeff Cheal, director of personalization, campaign and analytics strategy for the global software company Episerver, companies are trying to glean as much data as possible to both give individual customers a more personalized experience, but also to better understand the customer base as a whole.

This is a strategy that Sammy's Woodfired Pizza, a brand based in San Diego, has managed to master quite well.

In 2017, there will be even more buzz in the B2B world around how MarTech can support the ultimate customer experience through an account - based strategy.

They expend extra effort to compensate for these handicaps when hiring sales managers and reps.. It's the only way they know how to ensure they have people in place who can craft and execute a sound sales strategy based on proven strategies and performance metrics.

Expert Gabe Zichermann on how «gamified» programs can be better than standard rewards - based strategies.

«We're using that to inform our pricing and packaging strategies on a go forward basis,» says Purdy, adding that some related announcements can be expected this fall.

For the WWE, however, the decision is a departure from its strategy in the U.S., where it has opted to go it alone with the Network as an over-the-top Internet - based service.

Their Instagram strategy is based around branding, and incorporating their FedEx delivery vehicles and staff into creative images.

Here's what we learned: «The Smith Travel Research (STR) report is a hospitality industry tool that assists in knowing where we are regarding our pricing strategy and rate and occupancy strategy on an ongoing basis within our market.

In the UK, for instance, it's foreign - based multinationals like Google and Starbucks that are taking the most heat for alleged tax avoidance strategies.

That's not the company's only strategy for growth, though — in August it bought B.C. - based QHR Corp., a digital medical records company, for $ 170 million.

Location - based advertising is still in its infancy, but a 2011 report by Strategy Analytics estimates it will be worth more than US$ 5 billion by 2016.

Matt Mackowiak, a Texas - based Republican strategist who is president of the Potomac Strategy Group, said Trump was entering the situation without having previously dealt with such a disaster, something he said was «unusual for political figures.»

Constituent companies are chosen based on their score on two sets of measures: a quantitative assessment consisting of their return on equity, balance sheet accruals ratio and financial leverage ratio; and a qualitative score derived from management's responses to a survey about such topics as corporate governance, risk and crisis management, customer relationships and tax strategies.

And, in his experience, it's He's found it's the best way to ensure a strategy will actually be executed: «The employee base as a whole must believe they are stakeholders in the goal.»

First to market is a reasonable strategy, if you grow your user base quickly and establish customer loyalty.

Kelly Blair, a Toronto - based senior partner at executive search firm the Caldwell Partners International, prefers the term «career tactic» to «exit strategy,» but says more executives are thinking in terms of time lines, as well as end rewards, when evaluating new roles.

A business's USP can be based on product characteristics, price structure, placement strategy (location and distribution) or promotional strategy.

«Any prudent senior executive is thinking of an exit strategy,» says Louise Wilson, the Calgary - based director of PwC's people and change practice.

The partners at Toronto - based mobile strategy and development shop BNOTIONS were so excited about the idea of the Internet - connected car that they went out and bought the latest Tesla Model S, just to get their employees thinking about it.

«The market started reacting to the suggestion that the path [of rate hikes] could be shifting higher, based on all the positives mentioned by Powell,» said George Goncalves, head of fixed income strategy at Nomura.

To promote the movie, the folks at 20th Century Fox have cooked up a somewhat unconventional marketing strategy: while hitting all the usual social media bases (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), Taken 3 is also being promoted on LinkedIn.

Be aware of the environment before making a decision or changing strategy based on these types of behaviors.

The second tactic, Thakor's favorite, is shifting your portfolio investment strategy to an index - based or, as she terms it, «evidence - based» approach.

Chris Lester, CEO of Chief, a Washington, D.C. - based brand strategy, technology and communications agency, suggests asking yourself whether you can say, «Thank goodness this person is here» about each of your employees.

Most of what we do, especially professionally, is based on trying to maintain control: processes, guidelines, strategies... everything we plan and implement is designed to control the inherently uncontrollable and create a sense of security in a world filled with seemingly random occurrences.

«Keeping abreast of all the changes to Google's policies on a daily basis means changing our marketing strategies and SEO strategies to coincide with our goals to increase sales and continue to reduce costs — which is happening every single day.»

Changes to retirement strategy should be made on the basis of fundamentals rather than Trumponomics, Wall Street veteran Jim Paulsen said.

That's based on technical analysis (an investing strategy with both its pros and cons) from Fundstrat technical strategist Robert Sluymer, who wrote in that same note: «Our expectation is Bitcoin will begin to show evidence of bottoming short - term closer to $ 5,873.»

While the firm has long been critical of the types of short - volatility strategies that were blamed for exacerbating stock moves early last week, it's still optimistic about the market on a medium - term basis.

With so much marketing internet based nowadays, you're going to want to ensure you're using the right SEO strategies.

Perhaps for this reason, many people who invest in start - ups tend to favor companies that are based on small, executable ideas over grand strategies like Martian colonization or the resurrection of the electric car.

«The biggest mistake I see these days is thinking that a business idea will automatically turn into a viable business model,» says Terri Lonier, president and founder of Working Solo, a New Paltz, New York - based business strategy consultancy, and author of Working Solo: The Real Guide to Freedom and Financial Success with Your Own Business.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

Therefore, prior to entering a new position, whether it is a trade or an investment, an exit strategy based on both the best case scenario and the worst case scenario needs to be laid out.

He called many of them «talking points» that were «pre-circulated» beforehand «based on a strategy of isolating the most favorable facts and events, and ignoring other events and the big picture.»

-- Jay Jamison, SVP of strategy and product management at Quick Base, maker of a no - code tool that enables workers to build apps without needing to know how to write a single line of code and that is used by more than half of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Kayak, and Southwest Airlines

By mid to late 2015, it's going to be quite reasonable to embark upon a real multi-platform web - based app development strategy.

Mel Carson is founder of Delightful Communications, a Seattle - based social - media - strategy, digital - PR and personal - branding consulting firm.