Best practices focus management on defending the business, even as market shifts lower the industry growth rate and profits.
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.
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.
In the coming years, Asia will record the highest growth rate of all regions in the entertainment and media industry, with more than a 9% compound annual growth rate.
But to consistently beat the industry's 15% secular annual growth rate, Dell needs China.
Globally the premium wine category has been expanding at more than 10% a year in volume, a handsome growth rate for the beverage industry.
On the other hand, he also notes that the growth rate in the satellite industry has tumbled to 2% in Q4 2010 from 12.8% in 2002.
Research firm Strategic Insight forecasts the industry's boom-time annual growth rate of 25% is likely to slow to 10%, but that's not bad considering the market's troubles.
That is below the projected growth rate for the outsourcing services industry--the National Association of Software and Services Companies forecasts the industry's revenue to increase 12%-14%.
The report, commissioned by the cruise industry, showed that Scotland lagged behind the growth rate of the wider northern European market, which has expanded recently at nearly 10% per year.
Analysts IDC predicted that from 2012-2016 public IT cloud services will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 26.4%, some five times the growth of the IT industry overall.
In the last five years, Microsoft sales have risen at a 9.5% annual rate far below the applications software industry growth of 14.1%.
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With the stabilization of the financial industry and expiration of many of the stimulus programs, the growth rate of real total debt has decreased dramatically thus far in 2010.
By 2010, the industry had grown to 16, 000 megawatts at a compound annual growth rate of 57%.
As agriculture is inherently more slow-growing (3% annually this decade) than industry or services, this will help boost India's overall growth rate.
Frankly, I would not bet the farm on the industry as a whole achieving anything near 14.5% EPS growth rate over the next three to five years.
The premium is warranted given a higher long-term earnings growth rate of 29.0%, compared with the industry average 12.7%.
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While the number may be below other companies such as Expedia, Trip Advisor and Priceline, the y-o-y growth rate is much higher when compared to other companies in the industry.
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Senior Intel management, notably Chief Executive Paul Otellini, has signaled concern over sufficient manufacturing capacity in 2010 should the PC industry hit or exceed a prospective 10%-15% unit rate of growth.
But company executives liked being in a growth industry over the last decade dividends have risen at an average annual rate of 22% for ten years so now that Pentagon demand is cooling, they are looking for new ways to keep growing.
In its announcement at the time, Abbott said pharmaceutical sales in emerging markets are expected to grow at three times the rate of developed markets and account for 70% of the industry's growth over the next several years.
Moreover, the consensus analyst long-term EPS growth rate projection is 12% for PSMT, versus a 14.5% industry median.
He said Microsoft can grow revenues at a double-digit rate for the '09 fiscal year--outpacing the growth of the worldwide software industry.
As a result, the consistently high interest rate regime has impacted the growth of companies operating in China, particularly in the construction industry.
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And as Poland's growth rate has grown worse, so has the outlook for coal: experts now reckon the industry must slim to 80m-85m tonnes a year, and 90, 000-100, 000 jobs.
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Despite inheriting a disastrous economy from the Labour Party in 1979 the top income-tax rate was 98% and public-sector strikes were crippling British industry she managed to increase growth and productivity to such an extent that she could leave office with a top tax rate of 40% and growth rates mirroring those of her beloved America.
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