1.   But design changes can be a key determinant of the experience curve for a generic group of products.

2.   Cost-leadership policies do not, therefore, depend for their success upon some crude belief in the experience curve.

3.   How might knowledge of the experience curve be used strategically?

4.   In such situations an assessment of the slope of the experience curve is vital in determining the likely profitability of new investments.

5.   It is also worth bearing in mind that the experience curve does not apply only to single products.

6.   The experience curve reflects the mix of all these forms of learning.

7.   This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve.