Viscosity regulates a competitive strategy

Strategy and Competitive Advantage

Winning business strategies are grounded in sustainable competitive advantage. A company has competitive advantage whenever it has an edge over rivals in securing customers and defending against competitive forces. There are many sources of competitive advantage: making the highest-quality product, providing superior customer service, achieving lower costs than rivals, having a more convenient ...

Do Japanese companies have a competitive strategy ?

Responding to Michael Porter’s claim that “Japanese companies rarely have a strategy”, this paper argues that the competitive advantage of Japanese enterprises is not to be found in traditional practices. Rather it is due to the way these practices are upgraded and reinforced by ideological factors such as the “community of fate”, as well as the formation of governance structures that cultivate...

Do You Have a Competitive Strategy?

Brand Extension: A Strategy for Competitive Advantage

The success of a product depends upon its positioning which in turn is related to its brand name. A brand name may be defined as, a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of these, that identifies the manufacturer or seller of a product or service (Kotler and Armstrong, 2002). Zikmund and d’Amico (1984) defined brand as any name, term, symbol sign, design, or unifying combination...

Dynamic Vegas: A Competitive Congestion Control Strategy

TCP Vegas is regarded as balanced congestion control strategy, however, shortcomings such as low bandwidth utilization and not gain fairness when sharing link with TCP Reno. We reinvestigate these issues and propose a modification strategy called Dynamic Vegas, which changes initial TCP Vegas’ in slow start and congestion avoidance phase. It dynamically chooses slow start algorithm and adjust d...