Challenge In The News

Microsoft’s New X-Box 360 Creates Challenges for Game Makers
This could be good or bad, depending on what kind of challenges were created for game makers? What good is a new game device with no new games to play? Did game makers need a new challenge?

The reasons include the technical challenges of the work and restrictions by the U.S. government.
A great idea or invention faces numerous challenges in order to come to market. Technical challenges need to be overcome and then presented to differentiate the product from any competition. Government restrictions demand compliance to existing guidelines and sometimes need to be revised in order to meet new technical challenges not previously covered.

“This unfortunately marks the real challenge being laid at the feet of AtomFilms: How are they going to compete with Viacom?
Ultimately, this is the real challenge of all businesses: How to compete with the market leader in our field? It is better to be first in the mind of a customer than first to the market. If you are not first in a category, create a category in which you are first and make the market leader compete with you.

Be prepared to have your preconceptions challenged daily.
Be Prepared, at all times, to be challenged on your point of view. When you are being challenged, someone is comparing their preconceptions to yours and presenting differences, in their opinion. This is a learning opportunity for you. The challenge is to listen and then incorporate the new concept into your development of the final conception.

The Bushes reflected on a challenging year ...
Wonder which reflections the President and First Lady feel challenged them the most this year. Am sure they had a lot to choose from.

Near-monopoly status challenged: Amgen patent attacked
Challengers challenge in order to compete. Attacking a patent is one way of challenging a market leader.

Has been challenged to sell 20 units by the end of the year.
Sounds like a sales challenge. Is it possible to sell 20 units by the end of the year or is this a request for help to accomplish a sales goal? Why do I care about your challenge to sell 20 units? If I help you meet your challenge, how do I benefit? Thanks for sharing your challenge with us.

A little more than a year ago, Jewish National Fund embarked on a challenge, a long term vision.
Developing the Negev into a hospitable, habitable, profitable environment that would become home to an additional 250,000 people.

And they are challenging the Madison Avenue establishment in New York City, the industry’s historic home.
The Dutch shop is part of a new wave of independent agencies that believe they can profit from the same market forces that have brutalized the business. The Information Age has changed the advertising establishment and challengers are entering the market with vim and vigor. Gone are the days when you can’t do for yourself or at least, part of the work.

... the disruptor is facing the challenge of disruption.
Be careful when you stir up the pot because you may have to face the same disruption as you intended for others. From disruption comes clarity. Be sure to answer questions before they are asked and solve tomorrow’s predicable problems today.

Retirement Age Poses Challenges
For me, the good kind of challenges – whether to hang out with family or friends, play tennis, go fishing, travel, read or do whatever else feels good. These are the kind of challenges you can pose to me all day long.