Sentence examples for partners competitors from inspiring English sources

If the plan is going to be read by a potential business partner, discuss your competitors--both your competitors and your potential partners' competitors.

But Europe must nonetheless recognise the need to distinguish clearly between partners, competitors, and opponents and to formulate a more sophisticated and articulated policy towards Russia in particular.

For the other two types of partners (competitors and consultancies), the effect is negative, but not significant.

We analyse the impact of R&D cooperation on firm performance differentiating between four types of R&D partners (competitors, suppliers, customers, and universities and research institutes), and considering two performance measures: labour productivity and productivity in innovative (new to the market) sales.

More recently still the scope of research has been further expanding to include not only the physical aspects of the supply chain but also the research and development pipeline, the financial flows of the enterprise, as well as consideration of external entities such as suppliers, partners, competitors and even governmental and regulatory bodies within the decision framework.

Khoshnevis and Rabeifar have argued [4] that an important part of organizational knowledge is acquired externally to the company and therefore does not dwell from within the organization, rather is mostly developed from interaction with customers, partners, competitors and other market stakeholders.

The partner-competitor duality of relations between Germany and China can partly be explained through the fact that the Chinese companies buy German machines and equipment that they use to produce goods that are then sold back to Germany, said Ralph Wiechers, chief economist of the German Engineering Federation.

Is that partner, competitor.

It's also locked in a price war with partner-competitor Handspring.

But Bill Gates has been a partner, competitor and student of IBM, sometimes all at once, and he can take solace in its history.

Every dimension of merit must be witnessed in order to be appreciated, and any single behavior can reveal precious details about a partner-competitor's synergistic strengths and weaknesses in one or another domain; hence the permanent necessity of vigilant synergistic who's who learning and synergistic self-promotion (who's who teaching), upstream from mere technical (what's what) learning.