#The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
#The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.
#(geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
# calculus The process of determining the derived function of a function.
Bowen's theory (1978) of differentiation is the personality variable most critical to mature development and the attainment of psychological health. The study of psychological differentiation has been confounded by confusion regarding the constructs being studied and the measurement tools used to assess them. The purpose of this review is to...
Competitive advantage includes two variables; the amount of customer-valued differentiation between what the company offers with regard to the direct competitors, and the sustainability of the differentiation over time. The large differentiation increases the prospects for creating above-average returns for investors in an organization. The paper stresses the need to...
Differentiation plays a key role in branding and is the foundation of a competitive advantage. And it profoundly affects one's position in the minds of his or her prospects and customers. Effective differentiation can position one as No. 1 among his or her competitors - the company or brand customers...
First-price auctions and multilateral negotiations are experimentally compared after introducing horizontal product differentiation into a standard procurement setting. The two institutions yield the buyer the same surplus, a difference from prior findings with homogeneous products that results from differentiation's influence on the sellers' pricing behavior. In particular, this paper finds...
A standard "Solution" offered to the deleterious effects of all-out price competition is for firms to engage in differentiation strategies. This solution, however, depends critically on the inability of rivals to imitate a successful differentiation strategy. With imitation, the author shows how "Red Queen" pricing effects can arise: All firms...
The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, DC) has patented methods and compositions for altering the growth, organization, and differentiation of plant tissues. The invention is based on the discovery that, in plants, genetically altering the levels of...
As consumers find themselves besieged by advertising campaigns, smaller companies, in particular, can benefit from the strategy of differentiating their product from the competition. This distinguishes "push" campaigns from "pull" campaigns. This article points out that the larger companies, including the top sellers in the beer industry, often opt to...
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) has patented a human gene sequence that encodes the CDDP-1 polypeptide, which is involved in cell differentiation, in particular differentiation of undifferentiated progenitor cells into neutrophils, monocytes/macrophages, mast cells, and/or erythroid cells. Assays for detecting CDDP-1 expression, vectors that...
The authors study vertical integration and product innovation as interdependent strategic choices of vertically related firms. Product differentiation in the downstream market is considered as a strategic device of downstream firms facing a threat of vertical integration and market foreclosure by an upstream monopolist. The main finding is that, although...
From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that most products and services today have been commoditized. There is minimal differentiation. Customer experiences now define the brand. Great brands are the result of great common consistent customer experiences. Customer experiences are the next battlefield for differentiation. Thus, the people can help companies...
The Brands are in crisis again, not because of the difficulty in competing for the consumer’s attention among the 3,000 new brands launched each year, without counting the Internet, nor because of the repercussion on the brand’s image of the unethical business practices of certain multinationals, but because of a...
Product, brand, and service remain significant and the marketing concept is here to stay, but its content is changing. The paper looks into the question of the changing nature of differentiation. It focuses on the fact that taking cost out of an operation, maybe through new tools and techniques in...
Insurance firms that lack a cohesive vision and strategy across their entire enterprise are failing to take advantage of the bounty of newfound technological options available to them and are limiting their capacity for differentiation and growth. Insurance firms that lack a cohesive...
Brand value can be created through real product differentiation, including re-bundling and de-bundling. The key to creating value through product differentiation is value pricing - showing buyers how to trade off specific performance levels against product or service price. The ability to customize production and service delivery to meet the...
LONDON, February 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Medic4all Presented With 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product and Services Differentiation Innovation, in Recognition of its Innovative Telemedicine Offering - Frost & Sullivan confers the 2006 Product and Services Differentiation Innovation Award...
Product differentiation in durable-goods markets is often complicated by the fact that decision processes for the market participants are intrinsically dynamic. Transaction costs in selling used goods prompt consumers to think ahead in order to avoid adverse lock-ins, and hence have a strong influence on the endogenous formation of these...
The paint department of your local hardware store may not seem like the place to go for strategic insights, but on display is one strategy that offers the potential to streamline offshore manufacturing operations, create markets and even generate new jobs. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The strategy is called postponement,...
From the executive summary: ‘Securing the right talent to drive an organization at the right time requires that recruiters are able to garner that talent's ear at recruiting time. At best, recruiters may get a few seconds before the target candidate has to make a decision to stay or move...
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