life-cycles

Given the incredibly short life-cycles of modern technology, they are correct to fear disruptive innovation.

Kevin L. Kearns: Amazing Grace (Periods) in Current U.S. Patent Law Kevin L. Kearns 2011

These ancestral flies were grown in the laboratory, for two decades, under different environmental conditions, (such as starvation and longer life-cycles) so that each population was selected for specific characteristics.

A Good Saturday Evening Flick 2009

CE companies are caught in the vicious circle of too many product introductions, products with low differentiation that rely on price positioning to succeed, short life-cycles and weak product equities that require a powerful support by trade.

Andrea Ragnetti: Apple's Competitive Advantage Andrea Ragnetti 2011

We just need the right policies and behavioral changes in place to incentivize designers to design with full life-cycles in mind and consumers to be conscious of what they do with everything from fridges to paper to batteries.

Andy Posner: A New Ethics of Consumption 2008

Manage in an integrated way the interacting and multiple demands on ecosystem services throughout supply chains and product life-cycles.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry~ The Bottom Line 2008

One of the most interesting is a multi-year observation of altered life-cycles in local flora (like jewelweed, chickweed, masterwort, goldenrod, etc.) under the kudzu.

Books Most Important to You 2006

The accelerating pace of change in our world (in all things – technology, life-cycles, social fragmentation, geopolitics, climate, the arts) results in (and is further driven by) our constantly “leaping before we look” just to stay on our feet.

This is Your Brain on Poverty Donald Clark 2006

The failure to replace city vehicles at the end of their life-cycles is costing us in excessive maintenance.

Archive 2005-05-08 Randy Smith 2005

The failure to replace city vehicles at the end of their life-cycles is costing us in excessive maintenance.

Mugging Randy Smith 2005

Let's say you're a precision-parts manufacturer -- a maker of high-value, time-sensitive parts with extremely short product life-cycles.

Synchronizing the World of Commerce 2003