distinctiveness
(noun)
Something which distinguishes something from anything else
Examples of distinctiveness in the following topics:
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The Process of Incorporation
- The papers should clearly state the distinct name of your business.
- A corporation has a distinct name and it is generally made up of three parts: "distinctive element," "descriptive element," and a legal ending.
- All corporations must have a distinctive element, and in most filing jurisdictions, a legal ending to their names.
- ", the word "Tiger" is the distinctive element; the word "Computers" is the descriptive element; and the "Inc." is the legal ending.
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Publicly Held Corporations
- Government-owned companies are either partially or fully owned by a government and have both a distinct legal form and commercial presence.
- Their defining characteristics are their distinct legal form, and their operation in commercial affairs.
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Brand Categories
- A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers.
- Strategic Awareness occurs when your brand is not only top-of-mind to consumers, but also has distinctive qualities that stick out to consumers as making it better than the other brands in your market.
- The distinctions that set your product apart from the competition are also known as the Unique Selling Points or USP.
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Service marketing versus goods marketing
- The distinction between services and goods products is not always clear-cut.
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Cluster Structure
- The divisions are distinct parts of the business, and the company is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of each division.
- Subsidiaries are separate, distinct legal entities for the purposes of taxation, regulation, and liability.
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Starting the journey
- A value map is much like a process map with one distinct difference: a value map starts from the customer end and makes a clear distinction between value-added activities (transformational activities for which the customer is willing to pay) and non-value-added activities (activities that add cost without adding customer value).
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Using a Product Life Cycle Framework
- A useful way of looking at this phenomenon is in terms of competitive distinctiveness.
- Often, new products may, upon introduction, realistically expect a long period of lasting distinctiveness or market protection—through such factors as secrecy, patent protection, and the time and cash required to develop competitive products.
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Macromarketing versus micromarketing
- In 1982, Bunt and Burnett surveyed the academic community in order to define more precisely the distinction between macro- and mircomarketing.4 Their findings suggest that the separation depends upon "what is being studied", "whether it is being viewed from the perspective of society or the firm", and "who receives the consequences of the activity".
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Styles of Leadership
- All of these positions require a distinct set of characteristics that give the leader the position to get things in order or get a point across.
- To maintain emphasis on the distinction between authoritarian leaders and their followers, these types of leaders make sure to only create a distinct professional relationship.
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The paradox of skill
- Understanding this difference is the key to the classic distinction between a trade and a profession.
- In a time when everyone wants to be called professional, a real danger lurks in Brandeis' distinction, an elitism (‘mere skill'), a snobbery, a class bias that is inappropriate both to the tradesperson and the professional.
- Once, the trades were a source of enormous pride and distinction.