Include historical metrics in the model to compare them with your projections.

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We brought a Contour model along to compare.

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Instead, firms should recognize the benefits of the innovation model they inhabit, compare themselves to others using a similar approach and borrow selectively from other categories.

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But a lot of programming later he and his colleagues managed to build a model they hoped would be able to compare information on the structures of drugs with information on the structures of human proteins, in order to find the best fits between the two.

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And yes, we can then all go off and compare this with the Apple model which is to make as gargantuanly large margins on the hardware as possible and then still try to take a margin on the sale of content though iTunes and the like.

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Oxford Economics built a unique global ranking model based on a weighted composite index to compare and benchmark employee diversity across countries, industries and occupations.

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The calculator will spit out a model portfolio, and another option, so you can compare the different income mixes and see the trade-offs side by side.

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The Model S is so much more refined, so much more polished that you can hardly compare the two.

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Compare its elaborate trend-crunching with America Online, which hews to an old broadcast ad model, using sophisticated targeting for only 3% of its ads.

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