Originally posted by cali92rs They are going to have to take risks.
OK, someone else will Ignore me after this - but - that is called Business Risk. It is necessary that a company take Business Risk in order to earn a Return. In order to earn a larger Return, such as in order to increase market share, a company must take more Business Risk than in the past. In fact a company must take more Business Risk RELATIVE TO ITS COMPETITORS' Business Risk than in the past.
If a company's competitors increase business risk, that company must increase its Business Risk JUST TO STAY EVEN, much less to
gain market share.
Increased Business Risk does not include the apparent discontuniation of the DA16~45, DA35/2.4, the deal packaging of the FA Limiteds with the K5II's, the Q10, silence on the Ricoh brand, 400 DA560's a month for a 6 month planned production run.
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keiretsu are not the power arbiters they once were, nor are the core banks within them. The Diet doen't control the economy as it once did. The Yen is declining relative to the dollar and the Euro for at last a while, but now that so much of the manufacturing is offshore that might not help as much as it once did.
When your market share is 24% a bad business decision - a misplaced Business Risk - that costs you 2% won't cost you the entire company (see Canon sensors and Nikon QC). When your market share is 5% ...........
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast; They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that - They'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.
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Last edited by monochrome; 04-11-2013 at 01:36 PM.