It will face periods of declining industry growth, when its stock will drop dramatically.
Best practices focus management on defending the business, even as market shifts lower the industry growth rate and profits.
The research found that 54% of organizations are already using public or private clouds, still leaving plenty of room for industry growth.
FORBES: The Cloud Hits the Mainstream: More than Half of U.S. Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing
The index comprises four weighted measures: 50% STEM occupation growth, 25% technology industry growth, 12.5% STEM occupation concentration, and 12.5% technology industry concentration.
FORBES: Methodology For Forbes' Best Cities For Tech Jobs List
We also believe the PC industry may be resetting to a new baseline and that full year industry growth estimates will be reduced.
Keith notes that while the Consumer Electronics Association sees industry growth this year of 5.6%, Best Buy sees same store sales flat to down 3%.
IDC, in its breakdown of smartphone growth over the next four years, predicts the Windows phone will growth at nearly four times the industry growth rate.
As a result, the industry growth clusters (aviation, specialized business services, life sciences, innovative manufacturing, and supply chain and logistics) have been gaining traction in our metro area.
As a result, forecasts of overall industry advertising industry growth for have recently been downgraded to just over 3% for 2011 and somewhere between 3.5% and 4% for 2012.
FORBES: Five Reasons Why 2012 Will Be A Banner Year For Political Advertising
Lenovo's PC shipments across the region increased dramatically by 46.5 percent in the quarter, more than three-times faster than the industry growth rate in this region of 14.7 percent year-over-year.
In the last quarter, ARM earned royalties on 1.5 billion processors and its unit growth in mobile, digital TV and storage increased more than double the rate of industry growth.
"Slowing industry growth is both requiring Dell to resize its workforce and allowing the company to streamline its organisation after several years of rapid expansion, " the company said in a statement.
Sixty-five percent of U.S. homes now own at least one HDTV, an increase of 13 percentage points from last year, making it the top industry growth driver of the past 12 months.
ENGADGET: Shocker: CEA's spending report finds Americans buying more technology
Nevertheless, nonresidential construction companies have been a major contributor to the overall industry growth in the last year or so, according to an analysis of private-company financial statements by Sageworks Inc.
Yet strong hardware sales during this time (and for the immediate future) will provide an ever expanding market for more profitable software sales, which will likely drive industry growth in the next several years.
When I had the opportunity to speak with Dowd and his 99.funding co-founder Craig Goos, they agreed that early successes in crowdfunding have the potential to pave the way for enormous industry growth.
FORBES: Equity Crowdfunding Portals Hit the Desert to Prep for 2013 Launches
And while that's a fraction of the revenue for entertainment as a whole, PricewaterhouseCoppers predicts that within the next five years nearly half of the total industry growth will be generated through Web and wireless technologies.
Mr. Terry, if you wish to criticize ZAGG as a stock, you can go over the potential commoditization of the segment, the large number of good competitors, changes in market share and margins, shifting trends in industry growth (demographics of newer buyers), management instability, etc.
In this environment, we will continue to focus on what we can control, striving to grow our revenues ahead of the product of industry growth and inflation, to drive higher profitability and cash generation, while strengthening the financial foundation of the business through further reductions in leverage.
FORBES: Anheuser-Busch Running Like A Clydesdale To New Highs
Hong Kong-listed shares in SUV maker Great Wall rose by 3% yesterday after it said last Friday first-half profit rose 30%. (See related story here.) Yet big state-controlled Guangzhou Auto, a partner of Honda and Tokyo, said yesterday said net profit fell by 15% in the first half amid tepid industry growth.
FORBES: Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks -- Aug. 29
"The digital communications industry drives growth and helps us to build a stronger economy, " he said.
Overall, industry sales growth for the first nine months eased this year to 13% from 14%.
An in depth report by UNESCO about future engineering capacity highlights an engineering skills gap that threatens industry and growth.
We know that this year has not been a good one for the Chinese wind power industry as growth slowed dramatically.
FORBES: Investing In China Is Fraught With Business Landmines
April was the first month the industry saw growth in both units and dollars in the software category since last November.
In addition, Nike must maintain above-industry average growth in developed markets to grow its market share in the global sports apparel market.
FORBES: Why Nike Will Outpace The Sports Apparel Market's Growth
Growth within the technology industry has spurred growth in the UK in recent years, but a recent drop in tech production threatens to hamstring the thriving British economy.
You'd think that with double-digit industry sales growth in the first half of this year, China's richest retailers would have an easy time increasing their wealth from a year earlier on the new Forbes China Rich List.
The rapid growth of the Greek yogurt industry at a time when growth is hard to come by highlights the importance of entrepreneurship in revitalizing the country.
应用推荐