competitive advantage or edge

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• Competitive Advantage — An advantage that a firm has over its competitors, allowing it to generate greater sales or margins and/or retain more customers than its competition. There can be many types of competitive advantages including the firm s cost structure, product… …   Investment dictionary

• Competitive exclusion principle — In ecology, the competitive exclusion principle,[1] sometimes referred to as Gause s law of competitive exclusion or just Gause s law,[2] is a proposition which states that two species competing for the same resources cannot coexist if other… …   Wikipedia

• Edge coloring — A 3 edge coloring of the Desargues graph. In graph theory, an edge coloring of a graph is an assignment of “colors” to the edges of the graph so that no two adjacent edges have the same color. For example, the figure to the right shows an edge… …   Wikipedia

• competitive edge — /kəmˌpetɪtɪv edʒ/, competitive advantage /kəmˌpetɪtɪv əd vɑ:ntɪdʒ/ noun an advantage that one company or product has over its rivals in the market ● Any competitive edge we have in this market is due to our good after sales service. ● Why does… …   Marketing dictionary in english

• Competitive intelligence — A broad definition of competitive intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in… …   Wikipedia

• competitive edge — UK US noun [S] ► the fact that a company has an advantage over its competitors: »The low overheads of the company gave it a competitive edge over other retailers. gain/maintain/retain a competitive edge »The business needs to innovate in order to …   Financial and business terms

• competitive edge —  Advantage …   American business jargon

• edge — I n. margin, border (also fig.) 1) a cutting; jagged, ragged edge 2) at, on an edge (she stood at the edge of the crater) advantage (colloq.) (esp. AE) 3) an edge on (to gain a competitive edge on smb.) misc. 4) to take the edge off one s… …   Combinatory dictionary

• edge — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 place where sth ends ADJECTIVE ▪ top, upper ▪ the top edge of the picture frame ▪ bottom, lower ▪ inner …   Collocations dictionary

• competitive — com|pet|i|tive [ kəm petətıv ] adjective ** 1. ) a competitive activity is one in which companies or teams are competing against each other: a competitive edge/advantage: The weakness of the pound should give manufacturers a competitive edge.… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• competitive — adjective 1 a competitive situation is one in which people or organizations try very hard to be more successful than others: an extremely competitive market | highly/fiercely/intensely competitive: Advertising is an intensely competitive business …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English