When Is It Wise to Sacrifice Profitability for Market Share?

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  adam@...12/01/07 Reported as spam
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  It's not about share, it's about growth

  Companies need to grow both revenues and profits, and seeking market share is a diversion that creates problems. Focus on share implies that growth cannot be accomplished without growing the total market - and those who use innovation know that it's new products and solutions which grow revenues - sometimes by stealing share and sometimes through market expansion. In Motorola's case, the company had lots of growth projects but by not pushing on them hard enough to produce results faster discussions devolved to market share discussions - which are inherently meaningless. Read more at http://www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com

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  jsmith686804/08/08 Report as spam
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  RE: When Is It Wise to Sacrifice Profitability for Market Share?

  It's not about growth; it's a choice among increasing gross profits ability, sustaining gross profits, decreasing gross profits to a sustainable level, or losing money.

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  furniturestorenyc10/02/09 Report as spam
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  RE: When Is It Wise to Sacrifice Profitability for Market Share?

  Well, both opitions are not bad,, seems, that running own business become more and more difficult in this country. Not only competition are growing, but government are not making small business choice of growth. http://www.Furniturestorenyc.com