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	Porter generic strategies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Porter’s explanation of this is that firms with high market share were successful because they pursued a cost leadership strategy and firms with low market share were successful because they used market segmentation to focus on a small but profitable market niche.
		To be successful, this strategy usually requires a considerable market share advantage or preferential access to raw materials, components, labour, or some other important input.
		In many cases trying to apply generic strategies is like trying to fit a round peg into one of three square holes: You might get the peg into one of the holes, but it will not be a good fit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porter_generic_strategies (1071 words)

	GB . PTCS . PointingFocusGeneralStrategy
		Errors in the pointing and focus of the GBT arise from repeatable (static) errors, such as misalignment of the elevation axis, and non-repeatable (dynamic) errors such as thermal effects and wind.
		Strategy A: (Appropriate for L and S-band observing.) The antenna should deliver "good" pointing and focus performance under all allowed wind conditions and in the presence of any thermal gradients.
		Strategy C: (Appropriate for "good" X-band, all Ku-band, and "acceptable only" performance at K-band.) Ensure that the wind speeds do not exceed the limits listed in the tables above.
	wiki.gb.nrao.edu /bin/view/PTCS/PointingFocusGeneralStrategy (1129 words)

	Tekes » Tekes in a nutshell » Strategy focus areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The selected technology focus areas are technologies and competences that will continue to develop and will be invested in to create new application potential.
		The strategic application focus areas are health care applications, safe production of functional foods throughout the business chain, and environmental and natural resource applications of biotechnology.
		The focus is on increasing the level of value added and the functionality, intelligence and compatibility of materials, and on materials life cycles.
	www.tekes.fi /eng/tekes/technology.html (379 words)

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		Even though the focus strategy does not achieve low cost or differentiation from the perspective of the market as a whole, it does achieve one or both in its narrow market target.
		The focus strategy always implies some limitations on the overall market share achievable and involves a trade-off between profitability and sales volume, but not necessarily a trade-off with overall cost position.
		Often the focus strategy of filling a limited need or offering a product that only a few buyers will purchase allows for products to be priced at a premium since the company is satisfying the desires of a small cluster of buyers.
	members.tripod.com /~infbprpros/differentiationfocus.html (392 words)

	Execute your strategy - Management Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The lesson here is clear: the process of defining and designing the strategy cannot be seen as distinct from creating the plan to execute it.
		Seek broad input when creating the strategy Bill Treasurer, founder of Giant Leap Consulting in Atlanta, Georgia, describes a phenomenon he calls executive asphyxiation: "The strategic plan is created by an executive inner sanctum.
		The value of clearly defining individual tasks and accountabilities at this point cannot be overstated, the experts agree: strategy is executed one person and one project at a time.
	www.theage.com.au /technology/ - !http://www.theage.com.au/news/Management-Focus/Execute-your-strategy/2004/12/27/1103996479862.html (1203 words)

	During hunt for CEO, Keane's focus is strategy - The Boston Globe
		During hunt for CEO, Keane's focus is strategy - The Boston Globe
		Now, even as the transition team moves forward with the strategy launched by Brian Keane to reposition and grow the company, a committee of the company's board of directors opens a national search for a new chief executive -- a job it expects to fill in three to six months.
		For the senior executives, the focus is on Keane's strategy.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/06/05/during_hunt_for_ceo_keanes_focus_is_strategy (934 words)

	Focus on the Philippines Number 43
		What is terribly wrong with the agribusiness strategy as it is currently implemented is that everything is placed at the control of the companies — the same ones that had been notorious for their anti-people practices, which Malonzo fought against in his days in the labor movement.
		To break the gridlock of the old landlord-type agribusiness strategy, a new, more equitable, participatory and sustainable agribusiness strategy is needed, cognizant of the sea change in land tenure effected by CARL.
		Focus on the Philippines (FOP) is an electronic newsletter on Philippine news and issues put out by Focus on the Global South-Philippine Programme.
	www.focusweb.org /philippines/content/view/85/6 (2879 words)

	Strategy 6: Focus
		This new focus will even help you remember "forgotten" material that you couldn't recall when you were focusing on negative thoughts (because the new focus primes related memories).
		Directing our focus is part of the skill we learn as we move from novice to expert in any task.
		He said that during my lectures he would focus his attention on what I was saying and try to visualize it and think of ways he could apply it to his life.
	www.csulb.edu /~tstevens/h87focus.htm (3194 words)

	Creating Dominance: Industry Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There is very little required to establish an industry strategy: the creation of an industry group, membership in a trade association and several partners willing to develop some knowledge about and contacts in the industry.
		In fact, implementing an industry focus strategy is so easy that it is amazing that it is not a standard among aggressive law firms.
		Compared to opening offices for a geographic strategy or hiring laterals for a practice strategy, industry focus is a minimum risk, high reward opportunity that should play a role in every firms strategic planning.
	www.edwesemann.com /archives/-strategy-18-industry-focus.html (2204 words)

	USAID FrontLines: October 2004 - In Focus: Agriculture Strategy
		The keys to this strategy are good trade policies, using information technology in agribusiness and agricultural education, and reaching out to women in agriculture.
		The strategy also urges USAID project officers to recognize the barriers women face despite their domination of the sector in many societies by designing projects that help women farmers and processors gain access to land, equipment, information, and credit.
		The strategy has been sent to field missions and is being presented at events around the world starting October 2004.
	www.usaid.gov /press/frontlines/fl_oct04/infocus.html (892 words)

	TKI - Literacy and Numeracy Strategy
		Instead, the strategy acts a device to provide alignment and consistency for a range of policies, programmes, and projects all focused on improving literacy achievement.
		Gradually this focus is extending to years 7 and 8, and into secondary schools, with special attention being paid to the transition points between them.
		Within the context of the Literacy Strategy, the language and literacy programmes for students who are speakers of languages other that English are also being reviewed, refined, and expanded so that the particular needs of specific groups of students can be met more effectively.
	www.tki.org.nz /r/literacy_numeracy/litnum_stra_e.php (650 words)

	Porter's Generic Strategies
		Additionally, several firms following a focus strategy and targeting various narrow markets may be able to achieve an even lower cost within their segments and as a group gain significant market share.
		A differentiation strategy calls for the development of a product or service that offers unique attributes that are valued by customers and that customers perceive to be better than or different from the products of the competition.
		The focus strategy concentrates on a narrow segment and within that segment attempts to achieve either a cost advantage or differentiation.
	www.quickmba.com /strategy/generic.shtml (1286 words)

	Career Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Under the Youth Employment Strategy, Career Focus provides funding for employers to help post-secondary graduates obtain career-related work opportunities in Canada to support their development of advanced skills, to help them make career-related links to the job market, and to assist them in becoming leaders in their field.
		National Career Focus - provides financial assistance to employers and organizations to deliver projects that are national in scope to provide post-secondary graduate youth with work experiences within Canada.
		Regional Career Focus – is administered through a network of regional/local offices located across the country.
	www.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/epb/yi/yep/newprog/career.shtml (334 words)

	Strategy & Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once the direction is set, the Organization must focus all its efforts on the management in an explicit, detailed, structured and monitored manner.
		Process management enables to boost a transversal vision of the business and orient it to strategy, in contrast to the partial vision which a functional structure may generate.
		As was seen in the definition of Strategic Vision, a correct alignment between the established processes and the elements of the Strategic Management model is essential (Map, Indicators and Strategic Action).
	www.strategy-focus.com /ingles/gestestpro.htm (226 words)

	Friends of Choice in Urban Schools - FOCUS and the Charter
		In 1996 FOCUS founded the D.C. Public Charter School Coalition, an umbrella under which charter school leaders and other stakeholders came together for mutual support and political advocacy.
		FOCUS is a member of the Association; the D.C. Public Charter School Coalition, now jointly convened by the Association and FOCUS when political circumstances warrant, continues as the advocacy committee of the Association, among other things vetting the annual Advocacy Agenda that drives FOCUS’s continuing advocacy efforts on behalf of the charter schools.
		FOCUS and the Association also collaborate on programs of benefit to the charter schools.
	www.focus-dccharter.org /aboutfocus/focusandthecharter.asp (233 words)

	ShadowGov
		In the Focus on the Strategy DVD, using audio and video clips of Christian leaders, Bob Enyart presents seven lines of evidence that our national ministries have endorsed legal positivism, elevating man's rules and the Constitution above God, and giving them precedence above eternal laws such as thou shall not murder.
		Focus on the Family has now explicitly admitted their commitment to legal positivism in their February 2006 Citizen Magazine.
		Such terminology is another part of the failed strategy which obscures our true demand, for judges who fear God and oppose the killing of the innocent.
	shadowgov.com /Focus/focus.html (1452 words)

	The New National Security Strategy: Focus on Failed States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This Strategy, the first by the Bush administration, is issued in accordance with the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, which mandated an annual report to Congress detailing the National Security Strategy of the United States.
		This limitation reflects a contradiction in administration strategy, since it often looks to these same big countries to prevent or resolve conflicts in neighboring failing states and to serve as regional partners in the war on terrorism.
		Collection ought to focus particularly on transnational security threats, such as terrorism, smuggling of precious minerals, weapons proliferation (both conventional and weapons of mass destruction), crime, narcotics flows, and disease.
	www.brookings.edu /comm/policybriefs/pb116.htm (3454 words)

	Clear Focus Strategic Planning
		This plan is designed to enable the organization to achieve optimal global performance, to embark upon a meaningful process of ongoing improvement, and to set up the organization for moving on to bigger and better things.
		Then, using the cause and effects already surfaced, each part determines what else it must do to ensure that each and every one of the symptoms surfaced the previous day are remedied, without creating significant negative side-effects for the other parts, or the organization as a whole.
		Throughout Clear Focus Planning (and its implementation), emphasis is placed on seeking the participation and buy-in of all participants in designing the strategy, as well as all others in the organization who will be either instrumental in the implementation process or will be effected by the change.
	www.focusedperformance.com /clearfocus.html (1313 words)

	Smooth Fulfillment by Webgistix
		Most marketing executives say they wish they had more time to focus on creating and executing their strategy.
		Webgistix helps you stay focused on your strategy by eliminating distractions associated with fulfilling requests for literature and promotional inventory.
		Companies that focus on their core business are more likely to become market leaders than those that do not.
	www.webgistix.com /nws/Why_GainFocus1.asp (445 words)

	Iran Focus-Iran’s “strategy” is to obtain nuclear weapons - exile - Nuclear - News
		The NCRI was the opposition movement that first blew the whistle on Tehran’s secret nuclear activities in August 2002.
		He said that the West was dealing with a regime that had been “cheating and deceiving” the world community for more than 18 years until the NCRI revealed its secret nuclear projects in Natanz and Arak.
		Abedini went on to say that the “instalment” of radical hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Iranian Presidency was part of the Supreme Leader’s strategy to bully the West into accepting a nuclear-armed Iran.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=5540 (382 words)

	History in Focus: Medical History: War
		Falls was writing at a time when the history of warfare was still very much the preserve of the military specialist historian, concerned with the machinery and strategy of battles and campaigns, and written within a tradition not easily accessible to the non-specialist.
		An anthropological focus sees objects as possessing important and variable social dimensions beyond, as well as including, their original design purpose.
		This focus still remains, but over the past few decades there has been a shift, and research has expanded to include the wider experience of war and its social and cultural effects.
	www.history.ac.uk /ihr/Focus/War/index.html (4288 words)

	Prevention Institute: From the Margins to the Middle: A Violence Prevention Strategy To Achieve Safe, Healthy, ...
		This document describes the Shifting the Focus strategy, which focuses on strategic coordination and collaboration occurring "in the middle" instead of marginally to more effectively support local efforts and provide needed leadership in the prevention of violence.
		Ongoing strategy development and work of the Shifting the Focus collaborative, steering committee, and subcommittees: Since the initial retreat in 1997, the collaborative has expanded and members have had regular meetings, strategy meetings, and subcommittee meetings.
		Strategy development and refinement is critical to the success of improved government service and violence prevention.
	www.preventioninstitute.org /margins.html (12696 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| A Strategy Foretold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Bush administration has opted for a security strategy that is aggressive and that prioritizes the use of the military to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
		This new strategy of rapid militarization at home, a permanent and expanding U.S. military presence abroad, and a policy of first strike defense against perceived enemies is one that was foretold.
		The military strategists, neoconservative analysts, and military-industrial lobbyists spent the 1990s preparing the strategy of U.S. military preeminence that the Bush administration is now implementing under their direction.
	www.fpif.org /fpiftxt/920 (1182 words)

	Community Based Organisations Focus on Strategy Building
		The consultation which is being organised by the Ti Rocher- Community Implementation and Advisory Committee (CIAC), in collaboration with the St. Lucia Rural Enterprise Project (SLREP), is seeking to develop a strategy for the sustainability of community based organisations.
		Chairperson of the Ti Rocher Community Implementation and Advisory Committee, Christine Wilson says, some of the issues down for discussion will focus on problems experienced by community based groups in accessing funds from both governmental as well as non-governmental agencies for community development projects.
		Wilson pointed to the lack of effective communication between governmental and non-governmental organisations and community groups that is necessary to build the groups’ capacity to effectively manage and supervise community projects.
	www.stlucia.gov.lc /pr2003/community_based_organisations_focus_on_strategy_building.htm (250 words)

	Spokane Strategy in Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The goals and strategies of the Spokane Area Workforce Development Council (SAWDC) must be examined in light of its overall mission, and that is overall economic development.
		More specifically, we want to see a workforce system that is truly responsive and effective, where the needs of business and employers are being met through a superbly trained workforce.
		Fortunately, many of the key players in other efforts serve on the SAWDC and are helping to direct its strategy and operations.
	www.wdcspokane.com /infocus/spokane.html (681 words)

	IME 2005 - Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
		The strategy coordinator designs and implements strategies to start and nurture church-planting movements among a people group or population segment.
		—A strategy coordinator must plan for comprehensive access to the gospel, considering geographic, linguistic, economic and socio-cultural factors that affect a people’s willingness to hear the message.
		Strategy coordinators are on the leading edge of efforts to join God in bringing the world’s peoples to know and worship Him.
	ime.imb.org /Theme/strategy.asp (356 words)

	Stud Poker Strategy - Focus \| Poker Strategy
		His problem, and mine as well at times I must admit, was focus.
		He was focused so much on his own hand – on waiting to see if he'd catch Aces up, that he wasn't able to do what even a brand new player does – wait to see what his opponent actually had before conceding.
		We put our opponent on a hand – we focus on improving -- on thinking about the odds of improvement, the cards that are out, the betting strategy to drive out our opponent – and we fail to get the big picture.
	www.pokernews.com /strategy/stud-poker-focus.htm (1000 words)

	Focus on Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] July 5, 2005
		One of the main reasons so many investors choose mutual funds for their retirement savings, after all, is that the diversification they provide can help keep a lid on volatility.
		Beyond that, you should generally be skeptical of funds with a history of packing a ton of assets into a small number of holdings or into just a few favored sectors.
		Before investing in any mutual fund, make sure that you're comfortable with its strategy and make sure, as well, that the manager has a history of being candid about the strengths and weaknesses of his strategy.
	www.fool.com /news/commentary/2005/commentary05070502.htm (845 words)

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