In contrast to the role of timing for particle identification, which has driven incremental improvements in timing, the LHC timing challenge dictates a specific level of timing performance roughly 20 to 30 picoseconds (ps).
This might drive some incremental improvements, but it doesn't fix the core problem of the overall business model.
Tesla has a good track record for reducing battery costs (see "Driving Innovation"), and even incremental improvements at conventional factories could reduce costs by 15percentt by 2020, says Menahem Anderman, president of Advanced Automotive Batteries.
Resist the urge to get "easy wins" or harvest "low hanging fruit". Leave the incremental improvements to the incremental improvers.
Without the ability to go to the capital markets, Denny's will have to rely on incremental improvements rather than big changes to drive sales higher.
The automaker spent more time than expected refining the Model S sedan, making incremental improvements to the vehicle and designing a right-hand-drive model that will sell in England, Japan and Hong Kong.
In the longer term, victory in the disk-drive industry appears to have gone to the manufacturers that were good at incremental improvements, whether or not they were the first to market the disruptive new format.
Pipe dreams, curiosities, and incremental improvements are all situationally valuable, but focusing on the pursuit of high-value KBQs will ultimately drive meaningful results.
High-throughput robotic chemistry and biology, the paradigm that drove the Human Genome Project and the Molecular Libraries Initiative, has reached a technology development plateau after decades of incremental improvements to existing microplate-based fluid-handling.
Incremental improvements overtime.
But again, really, these are incremental improvements.
