...Strengths • Integrity and Ethical Values – New Phone Inc.’s management has high integrity and an established code of conduct. Since the behavior of employees can often stem from poor ethical behavior by management, it is important that they display a high level of integrity and ethical values. • Commitment to Competence – The Corporation has a reputation for hiring competent personnel which is vital for the success of the company. • Management’s Philosophy and Operating Style – The Corporation’s management is somewhat conservative in terms of accounting principles and practices. Weaknesses • Board of Director or Audit Committee Participation – New Phone Inc.’s Board of Directors and Audit Committee are not very active, which is important to maintain good internal controls and accurate financial reporting. Generally, auditors report their findings directly to the audit committee, who in turn reports to the Board of Director. The audit committee is also responsible for identifying potential risks. • Organizational Structure - New Phone Inc.’s organizational structure places the corporation at risk for unethical behavior by its upper management since it allows its individual divisions to operate autonomously. Managers are in a position to make decisions based solely on the performance of their division with little regard for the financial integrity of the entire organizational. In addition, there is little monitoring of the individual division unless they...
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...NEW LINE IN MOBILE PHONES: A Case Study As final requirement for the course MARKETING MANAGEMENT KAYE MICHELLE B. VILLAFLOR 2015-1515 DR. RUBEN A. SANCHEZ, MBA, DPA Professor 16 August 2015 INDIVIDUAL CASE STUDY NEW LINE IN MOBILE PHONES 1. Identify the principal benefits to customers which derive from a mobile phone. What differences are likely to exist between market segments? Figure 1: Evolution of Mobile Phones – the image shows a line-up of famous mobile phone brand and models over the years from the birth of wireless communication; that is from the first generation (analog) to the fourth generation (smartphones) (tanwang, 2015) Figure 1: Evolution of Mobile Phones – the image shows a line-up of famous mobile phone brand and models over the years from the birth of wireless communication; that is from the first generation (analog) to the fourth generation (smartphones) (tanwang, 2015) When mobile phones were first introduced, the only benefit they provided is the communication made easy and mobile. The core function then was to provide consumers with wireless telephones which will enable them to make and receive phone calls wherever they are. Then there was the technology of beeper also known as pager where people receives messages wherever they are especially when needed. During the early years of mobile phones and pagers, having either of the two (or both) is already a luxury. But as technology advances in a glimpse of the eyes and paved the...
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...RFP for Phone System ABCD PVT. LTD. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM Introduction ABCD Pvt. Ltd. requires an integrated voice connectivity solution for their Thapathali branch. This is a request for proposal to provide the equipment and services outlined in Section II - System Requirements. ABCD Pvt. Ltd. of Thapathali will award this contract on a competitive basis. Instructions for Completing the Proposal The proposal needs to answer all questions listed in Part I - Project Description. Be as brief and accurate as possible. Submit three copies of your proposal. Proposal Deadline All proposals must be hand delivered no later than 5:00 PM, Wednesday, MMMM DD YYYY Submit your proposal to ABCD Pvt. Ltd. at the following address: ABCD Pvt. Ltd. Street Address City, Anchal Attn.: xxxxxxxxxxx (999) 999-9999 Or Mail an e-copy to info@abcd.com.np Project Evaluation Each submittal will be evaluated on a competitive basis against other proposals submitted by other interested applicants. Meetings between the vendor and ABCD Pvt. Ltd. to review the proposals will be scheduled and confirmed by xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Proposal Schedule The schedule for the Telecommunications System Projects is as follows: MMMM DD, YYYY Request for Proposal faxed to vendors MMMM DD, YYYY Proposals Due MMMM DD, YYYY Project Evaluation Period by ABCD Pvt. Ltd. MMMM DD, YYYY Meetings with Vendors to Review Proposal MMMM DD, YYYY ABCD Pvt...
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...of the report was to create a proposition for a new product or service that will be in either one of the four industries: tourism, banking, technology or entertainment and leisure. The task is to become the class expert on the product/service and the industry it operates in. Creating a market plan for the product/service begins to enter its introduction stage. Analysing the market and industry, then planning the product and creating the business proposition and action plan will be the following stages of the cycle. As an expert in the technology industry, there was a gap in the industry to launch a product called ‘Solar Your Phone’. Solar Your Phone is a product as well as being a service. There will be a mini solar panel that can be fitted into an individual’s iPhone, which will allow it to charge and gain power in a sustainable way. The service part of the product will be getting the solar panel fitted into your phone. Technical experts that have full knowledge on the product itself will do this. Once I have compounded all the data I will then be able to identify strengths and weaknesses for Solar Your Phone as well as the competitive market. This will allow me to see where ‘Solar Your Phone’ will be able to impact the market most productively and efficiently. GSMA released a report revealing that “a US$2.3 billion* opportunity for mobile operators through the provision of off-grid charging solutions such as solar phones or external solar chargers in emerging markets...
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...reciprocal relationship between the government and the press. That is, it is the job of the press to act as a watch dog for a nation’s citizens, as it is long believed that a free media is the key to an effective democracy; and that it is the job of a government, to govern justly and in turn act as a watchdog for its citizens, to ensure the press does not violate their human rights as well as take action on parties choosing to engage themselves in criminal activity. In 2005, one of the biggest if not the biggest and most public phone hacking scandals came to light. The scandal in question is none other than the “News of The World” phone hacking scandal. (Chandrasekhar. Wardrop. Trotman. 2005.). The nature, size and impacts of the scandal were so immense that it led to not only several cases of litigation over the span of 6 years but also more on going cases outside of the scandal as a result of evidence collected, ultimately culminating in the closure of the “News of the World” in 2011. (Chandrasekhar. Wardrop. Trotman. 2005.). Moreover, in 2007 former British Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered a speech in regards to the scandal which very much relates to this essay. He said in a statement and I quote, “I do believe this relationship between the media and public life is now damaged in a manner that requires repair. The damage saps the country’s confidence and self-belief; it undermines its assessment of itself, its institutions; and, above all, it reduces our capacity to take the right...
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...Case Analysis Evaluation of New Phone Inc.’s Control Environment Strengths • Integrity and Ethical Values – New Phone Inc.’s management has high integrity and an established code of conduct. Since the behavior of employees can often stem from poor ethical behavior by management, it is important that they display a high level of integrity and ethical values. • Commitment to Competence – The Corporation has a reputation for hiring competent personnel which is vital for the success of the company. • Management’s Philosophy and Operating Style – The Corporation’s management is somewhat conservative in terms of accounting principles and practices. Weaknesses • Board of Director or Audit Committee Participation – New Phone Inc.’s Board of Directors and Audit Committee are not very active, which is important to maintain good internal controls and accurate financial reporting. Generally, auditors report their findings directly to the audit committee, who in turn reports to the Board of Director. The audit committee is also responsible for identifying potential risks. • Organizational Structure - New Phone Inc.’s organizational structure places the corporation at risk for unethical behavior by its upper management since it allows its individual divisions to operate autonomously. Managers are in a position to make decisions based solely on the performance of their division with little regard for the financial integrity of the entire organizational. In addition...
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...We will be discussing business ethics and social responsibility in our presentation today, and relating these theories specifically to the News of the World phone hacking scandal that broke in 2007. This scandal involved journalists and editors of the publication, News of the World illegally hacking into people's phones in order to access information that would not have been available to them otherwise. Though exact numbers are not known, lists of phones were confiscated listing thousands of mobile numbers, including the numbers of members of the royal family, some celebrities and the families of soldiers, terror and murder victims (BBC News UK, 2013). The scandal was further complicated when members of the London Metropolitan police engaged in behaviour that covered up or misrepresented the legality of the actions undertaken by the paper (BBC News UK, 2013). So to start, what are business ethics and social responsibility? Ethics are not easy to define. They represent a social contract between individuals of a given community, and define what a person ought, and conversely ought not, to do, (Andre & Velasques 1987). However, ethics are not defined by individuals, but rather represent the values of the largest majority. This means that the things an individual values may not be congruent with acting ethically as is defined by the community. This conflict is representative of an ethical dilema. This occurs when an individuals values contradict the behaviour that the code of ethics...
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...Cell phones have been around for quite a few years now. The cell phone came out back in 1983. The first design that came out was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (2009). Since then we have seen the cell phone evolve from a huge block to what we have today. One of the major problems with cell phones is cell phone waste. When a new phone comes out or we break our phones we usually just throw them away. This causes a lot of waste in the dumps. There is a cell phone though in the works that I feel will help shape the way we build cell phones and other devices, if it can ever get off the drawing board. Every day we throw away millions of cell phone. The reason we throw them away is because they are out of date or they are broken. The problem with the broken cell phones is that usually it is one piece that is broken that is near impossible to fix. So when the average person finds out just how much it is to fix the phone they usually just buy a new one. That’s where Dave Hakkens comes in. Dave’s idea is simple in theory. Build a phone made up of several exchangeable blocks that connect to the base (the middle of the phone) and the base connects everything together.( Mcnicoll & Article, 2013) The blocks have two pins on one side that allows them to be connected to the base. All this is held together by two screws at the bottom of the phone. By doing this you can extend the life of the cell phone by upgrading the specific block on the phone you want. For example let’s say...
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...Background Samsung Corporation is one of the largest electronic manufacturing companies in the world. This is a Korean conglomerate business. Their mobile phone manufacturing holds the number one position according to the sales unit as at third quarter in 2013 (Gartner Inc. 2013). Samsung mobile have both Smartphone’s as well as featured phones. Samsung Smartphone leads the Smartphone sectors as well holding 32.1% market share. Their main competitors are Apple in Smartphone and Nokia in featured phones. Samsung Mobile highly trusts on innovations and they have introduced many innovative ideas to the mobile phone users. Their latest innovation is the Galaxy Round, a Smartphone with a curve screen. The business philosophy of Samsung Corporation is very simple and their goals include creating the best products and services and contributing the society. Purpose of the Study Customer of mobile communication largely looked for new applications to match their demand for high data range, complex applications and switch between complex network solutions. Mobile phone manufacturers are highly investing their money on research and development activities, human knowledge and creativity and intellectual assets to develop innovative solutions to enhance consumers’ expectations competitively. They have experienced that consumers always prefer new product designs with innovative ideas. Therefore, investigation of the impact of innovations on the market share will be a vital aspect of the organization...
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...with Mobile Phone Providers ECO/365 Competitive Strategies with Mobile Phone Providers The following report details cellphone analysis that will deal with cellphone services. In order for the different existing cellphone providers such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Metro PCS to survive in the business market, they need to implement competitive strategies. It will establish stability and profitability in the long term. The key personnel and maintain for each service is the customer's loyalty. Mobile phone providers can have a challenge entering in today’s market. For a new company to be successful they would need to find a way to give the customers phones and service cheaper than the other companies or have a new innovative phone available. T-Mobile does not require their customers to have a contract making the upgrade at the contract renewal time obsolete. The purchase of the initial phone when signing up with T-Mobile is where they make most of their money. The monthly plans with T-Mobile are not exorbitantly priced giving them an edge on the other phone companies. T-Mobile was also the first to give customers access to international services for free. A new smaller provider can be merged with one of the larger companies easily. It would be a horizontal merger between these companies because they provide the same services. In 2004 AT&T merged with Cingular Wireless. This merger gave Cingular customers a wider network to use their cell phones in over 100...
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...Information Technology Course Project: Installing an IP Phone System Company Information and Abstract: Holt’s Cigar Company has been in business for over 100 years. The first store opened in 1898. There are now two retail locations in the Philadelphia area. Holt’s also provides a mail order service where cigars can be purchased online or by phone in most states. Holt’s Cigar Company is also part of Ashton Distributors. The same person owns them. Holt’s is the retail store and Ashton is a wholesale company. The total amount of employees for both companies is around 100 people. I work in the IT Department. We are in charge of maintaining the network, helping users, and maintaining the phone system. The phone system is over 10 years old and is an analog system. This system runs off of Windows Server 2000. Windows Server 2000 is very old software and Microsoft does not support it anymore. So this means there are no new updates or patches to software. This can leave our phone system open to outside attacks from hackers. Our biggest problems with the current system are functionality and features. The system randomly stops working about once a week and this usually occurs during business hours. The server needs to be re-booted when this happens. The IT Department cannot re-boot this system remotely. It must be manually re-booted at our Northeast Philadelphia location where it is housed. The phones will not work at all until one of us re-boots the server....
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...Marketing Plan Phone Zone (One Stop Shop) Nidal Maali Devry University (Keller School of Management) November/2013 1.0 Executive Summary Phone Zone (One Stop Shop) is a premier cell phone shop that concentrates on providing state of the art services regarding all cell phone needs from A to Z. such as Activation to your choice of any phone service provider using the latest technology of flashing or unlocking, Phone Zone will also offer customers with a quick fix to most major issues in software and hardware like system restore, application updates, screen replacements or charging ports fix and much more. Repairs that normally take days, would only take minutes or few hours in most cases, under the same roof without having to ship phones out of town for repair like what all major phone companies do especially for major repair like screen replacements . All that will have a lot to do with customer time and convenience, in some incidence frustrations and disappointment when customer left without phone for long hours or some time days. Phone Zone will be selling to individuals as well as business. While there are many different Competitors in the market, now they are larger in corporate setting and size but much less Flexible when it comes to services and quick repair. Phone Zone will be able to meet customer Demands through superior technical IT supports, customer service, quality products and most Important a quick fix and repair with 100% satisfaction. Local market...
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...90’s cell phones were so simple and easy. In this century, IPhones, Androids and other touch screen phones are just too difficult to even understand for certain individuals. Old phones are precisely how my life style right now is, simple and easy. I enjoy getting straight to the point with no time being wasted when it comes down to doing any sort of activity, as if I myself were an old phone. Majority of the population have a better understanding when it comes to old phones rather than the new phones we have here today. Old phones consists basic contents which makes it more comprehensible to everyone including the elders. Since there were no texting back in the 90’s cell phones would only be used for simply making and receiving calls. With old phones, no one had to worry about their screens not working anymore or any other difficulties that came along with having a touch screen phone. Even the games were simple (Tetris and snake), you would also never hear anyone complain about how their screen cracks easily or how their phone broke. Old phones were never filled with unnecessary things so the phones would work perfectly fine with very little objections. New phones would be slow sometimes even just to turn on because of all the extra contents. New phones today have very similar but improved features in which old phones had. The capability of making phone calls has not change nor did the phones purpose. Even though the old phones screen is smaller than the new phones we have today...
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...Product Innovation & Creativity Assignment Mobile Phone Report Table of Contents Introduction 3 Product concept 3 Secondary research 3 Primary research 5 Conclusion 6 Appendix 7 Bibliography 7 Figures 8 Questionnaire 8 Introduction Nowadays, the way of information transfer is changing rapidly as the change of advanced technology. People could communicate with each other more conveniently and effectively by the use of mobile phone. As the technology change of mobile phones, people not only use mobile phone to make a phone call, but also do something else. People can use mobile phone to watch TV, surfing on the internet, and take photo. By the way, the consumer needs for mobile phone may be different by their occupation and lifestyle. Therefore, the decision maker of the organization needs to know more about the customer needs and wants in order to handle the market opportunity successfully. Product concept Our concept is innovation and be creative to build a unique product experience for customers. And provide close service and convenience to customer in the daily life and working. Secondary research Secondary data which means the information has already been collected or already existed for specific purpose (Crossman, 2013). Secondary research could help an organization to know the current situation of market and competitor. It’s very help for organization to evaluate current potential opportunity within the market. From the Euromonitor...
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...Research on Mobile Phones Effects Dr. Abdullah AlOrainy Inst. of Electronics Research, KACST P. O. Box: 230471, Riyadh 11321, Saudi Arabia E-mail: alorainy@kacst.edu.sa ABSTRACT The use of mobile phones always accompanied by the issue of health implications for human. Previous research studies show no evidence of the impacts of mobile phones to human health. New studies suggest that mobile radiation might double the risk of developing cancer on the side of the head used, increase brain activity, can cause damage to nerves around ears and, more importantly, damages the BBB. Also new research shows that biological effects are possible without any warming of tissues which impose of the current radiation exposure levels. KEYWORDS Mobile Radiation, Health Effects INTRODUCTION There are now about 1 Billion mobile phones in use worldwide, and it is expected to reach 1.6B lines by year 2005. In many countries, penetration rates of more than %50 has been reached. At present, there are approximately 4.5 million GSM subscribers in Saudi Arabia and STC has commissioned Ericsson and Nokia to expand its GSM network to 5.5 million lines (~ %20 penetration rate). This wide use of mobile technology have often raise the question about if there are health implications for human. In fact, there are conflicting reports relating to possible health effects from mobile phones and base stations. In April 2000, an independent expert group in UK has issued a report on Mobile phone effects on health based...
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