The phrase "adapting to competition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or actions taken to respond to competitive pressures in a business or market context.
Example: "In order to thrive in the market, our company is focusing on adapting to competition by innovating our product line."
Alternatives: "adjusting to competition" or "responding to competition".
The 1980s and '90s were a period of change for the comic book industry, as it struggled to adapt to competition from interactive video technology and the Internet.
And yet, when we look to other industries that the internet flattened, it is hard to find many articles written in defence of travel agents who had to adapt to competition from websites like Expedia, or go out of business.
Any flower that is well adapted to competition (and how on earth can you judge whether one sweet pea is 'better' than another without abandoning all poetry - the very reason that you wanted to grow the damn thing in the first place?) will be subject to this charade, but one might argue - I do - that it's harmless enough.
In a for-profit company, we help increase the value of the enterprise by identifying how it can be more efficient and effective, how it can adapt to competition and, just as important, how they could give their customers extra value for money so that the company wins, and the customers do too.
This follows the sale of AT&T Wireless to Cingular, which was approved (with conditions) by regulators this week.AT&T has not had much success in adapting to new technologies and to competition since it was broken up 20 years ago.
It was a clear signal that some of Cuba's new entrepreneurs — legalized by the government two years ago in a desperate attempt to save the island's economy — were adapting to the logic of competition and capitalism.
From studies on animals it is known that sperm competition often gives rise to sexual conflict; the male ejaculate is adapted to male male competition within the female reproductive tract and these adaptations might have a harmful side effect on females leading to sexual conflict and consequently female antagonistic adaptations (e.g. Schärer et al. 2011, see review by Stockley 1997).
This implies that high levels of intragenotypic competition decreased the yield of individual Ga-0 plants in monoculture, indicating that while Ga-0 is a strong competitor with other genotypes, it is not well adapted to intragenotypic competition.
It has adapted to growing competition by creating more programming for local partners to air.
Mr. Aldonas, the top American representative here, said it was unfair to criticize American steel makers for failing to adapt to new competition.
