But what helps HD stand out from competition is the cost leadership that HD had managed to retain.
Many Chinese companies have gone global through mergers and acquisitions, establishing capabilities beyond cost leadership, and other measures, said BCG.
An international business faced with a pure global market environment where consumers derive value from global characteristics only must pursue a cost leadership strategy.
Despite sluggish market conditions, Samsung maintained solid profitability through its differentiated memory solutions and cost leadership based on its migration to 30-nanometer-class DRAM production.
ENGADGET: Samsung's Q3 2011 overall profit falls despite incredible phone sales
While driving cost leadership as a discipline, we were also taking profits and cash and plowing it back in the company, all in the name of growth for the clients.
FORBES: How Nielsen Cut Its Debt Load, Delivered A Dividend And Scooped Up Arbitron
Fiat opened the factory in Poland in the early 70s, where presumably labor and operations were more cost effective under communist leadership.
FORBES: Ostalgia the New Museum: Simon Starling's Polski Fiat
That shock defeat cost Real the league leadership to Valencia and deepened the gloom at the Bernabeu following last week's Champions League elimination to Monaco.
But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
The restructuring proposals have been finalised after consultations to draw up the most cost-effective and efficient new council leadership, the authority said.
Both the civilian and military leadership in the United States begrudgingly recognize the opportunity cost phenomenon that affects democratic societies at war.
The question now is whether the Republican leadership can figure this out before they do something that would cost them dearly in 2012.
For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.
FORBES: The War Against Big Banks Is A War Against Your Mind
Instead, Magic leadership spent millions on players that added little or nothing t0 the team but whose contracts will cost the program a fortune for years to come.
FORBES: Dwight Howard Leaving Orlando, Mediocrity On Its Way Back
The measure represents the latest in a series of Republican concessions on spending and debt issues, with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his leadership team proposing the debt ceiling increase without any spending cuts they had previously demanded to offset the cost.
应用推荐