...school regulation will have a huge impact on their lives. To sufficiently influence policy makers, these parents need to be educated on the issues and involved in advocating for the new regulation. Their involvement will give ABC’s advocacy work the necessary visible support of young families. However, few young parents participate in ABC’s advocacy programs, preferring to join XYZ for their relevant information and support groups or LMN for their help in addressing problems in the school system. ABC recognizes that young parents have a limited amount of free time and wants to make it easy for them to participate in its advocacy efforts. In addition, ABC needs to be a good steward of its resources and not compete for clients with other organizations that are providing excellent complementary services. Purpose of the alliance The purpose of this alliance is to • Share information about the proposed school regulation • Recruit young parents into the project • Provide training to young parents so that they can assist in revising the proposed school regulation • Defray the costs of parent involvement in the project Outcomes An alliance of ABC, XYZ, and LMN (and perhaps other partners) will directly impact people with disabilities and their families and make a difference in their lives for years to come. The involvement of informed, concerned constituents will influence policy makers and help to make needed revisions in the proposed school regulation. The first steps Before...
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...the candles. The Holland House Candles Inc. is the company making these elaborate candles. Each candle has to be done in 15 minutes or the wax will be come to cool to carve. Once started, the artist will quickly and efficiently make a beautiful decorative candle. At the beginning of the process the candle maker starts by dipping the wax base into the hot wax. Each time the candle maker dips the base into the wax they have to then dip it in water to seal the color of wax and ensure that the candle is staying the temperature needed to finish and sculpt the candle. Once the candle is finished with the wax, the candle maker then cuts off the base and sculpts a mushroom candle out of it, so there is no waste. The candle maker then starts sculpting the candle. Once this process starts the candle maker only has 15 minutes before the candle becomes to cool to sculpt. She uses the cookie cutter like tool to dig out some of the middle to ensure the candle burns down the middle and not over the edges ruining the design. Then, the candle maker uses a hot pan to melt the bottom of the candle to make an even bottom to apply the company sticker. Once this step is completed the candle maker then dips the candle into an acrylic glaze to seal everything and to give it a shiny look while burning. It is then set up to finish drying before being ready to sell. Waste created from the base of the candle is sculpted into a mushroom shaped smaller candle. The direct materials used in this process are...
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...1. What is the major problem or opportunity facing Dave? The major problem that Dave is facing is the low morale of his team. From that issue, other issues have grown over time. The team does not work well together like it used to, the team has stopped caring for their trucks, and each member of the team has been vying for the new truck. Dave is also afraid of losing one of his team members because they would be hard to replace. 2. What are the courses of action available to the decision maker? Describe the possible impact of each action on the team members, the company, and Dave. Dave, the decision maker, can make an effort to increase the morale of his team through bonding programs or something similar. He also needs to select a better way to decide who gets the new truck. The first new truck went to a junior employee whose truck was not very old. This was the cause of the decrease in morale, which is likely because the senior employees whose trucks are older did not feel appreciated. Dave could give the second new truck to the member with the most seniority and the oldest truck, which would be George, but that may cause some issues still; other team members may feel like they are worth less than the others. Dave could randomly select who gets the truck by doing a drawing of some sort, but that may leave a feeling of unfairness amongst the team members. Dave could also make it a competition of some sort, but that will likely increase the tension between the team members...
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...the individuals are at the very basic level are motivated to participate in a monetary transaction or other trades for the sake of making a living. Making a living or a good living is basically a motive to acquire and maintain the basic needs in life such as shelter, food, clothes among other luxuries along the way such as comfortable couch, or a cozy blanket and etc. To acquire a living at first, an individual is motivated to conduct himself in a marketplace and offer a product or service in return for a monetary value or factor that will help him/her attain a good living. Not necessarily does the maker or seller of the product creates and sells the product out of a good heart – he may, he may not – but to gain something else in return for him. The buyer may not necessarily buy the product just because it is just a good product, but also that it solves their need or want and the maker is trying to earn a living like everybody else. There is a chain to it – just like a food chain – it is a chain. John buys the raw material from Doyle to finish making a beverage that in return will be bought by customers, by more Doyles. Those customers are a provider (seller) of another product or service to another buyer who are their customers. Again, a cleaner doesn’t offer to clean your house just because they want to be nice, but at the same time to earn something...
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...BlackBerry in International Markets: Balancing Business Interests and Host Nations' Security Concerns TARGET: * To understand the various issues and challenges facing a company in international markets. * To understand the controversy regarding BlackBerry usage and also why this controversy is more prominent in Asia and the Middle East. * To analyze the remedial measures available to RIM in addressing the national security concerns and its business interests effectively. * To understand the strategic lessons from Blackberry episode for MNCs in general and for technology and telecom companies in particular Research In Motion (RIM), a Canadian company, was the maker of the BlackBerry smatphone. Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of RIM, launched the first BlackBerry smartphone in 2002. Initially Blackberries were sold to business entities and government agencies in UK, US and Canada, but later in 2005 as the smartphone market took off all over the world, RIM decided to expand its overseas business. At that time RIM had no clue that its biggest selling point - strong encryption built into the design of the BlackBerry system that guaranteed customers privacy- would turn out be a major hurdle in its overseas expansion spree, especially in Asia and the Middle East. This case study discusses Research In Motion's (RIM, maker of BlackBerry smartphone) dilemma of striking a balance between its business interests and the security concerns of governments across the world. In 2010, the...
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...MK100- Principles of Marketing February 3, 2013 Research in Motion (RIM) - Blackberry in Decline Week 4 Assignment #1 Blackberry Cell phones have been an established brand and product offering on a global scale by Research in Motion (RIM). Research in Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. Research In Motion Limited, (2013) RIM directly competes with several Smartphone companies like Apple, Nokia, and Google’s Android for market share. RIM’s product offerings include the same product that Apple, Nokia, and Google offer the consumer. The BlackBerry product line includes the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, the award-winning BlackBerry Smartphone’s, and software for businesses and accessories. Research In Motion Limited, (2013) RIM’s blackberry devices were well known for their security and reliability as an email device. The demographics of the current Blackberry target market is composed of mid to upper class buyers aged 30-55 in the professional, executive, and industrial segments. Blackberry devices served the business world with a sturdy, reliable device that offered the business consumer a device that performed many types of business functions. One of these...
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...Zandi, Cameron Marketing 605 BlackBerry Marketing Campaign Analysis Research in Motion, now operating under the name BlackBerry Limited, was once the leading smartphone maker. The term BlackBerry was coined by Lexicon Branding marketing company, inspired from its keyboard resembling the drupelets of a blackberry. The motivation behind the company name switch from Research in Motion to BlackBerry Limited was to consolidate the company’s brand into a single cohesive global presence and to strengthen its recognition among its operating system, smartphones/devices, and its stock trading name. The telecommunication and wireless equipment company was founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada by Mike Lazaridis, who served as CEO until January 22, 2012. He was replaced by John Chen immediately. Chen wanted to change BlackBerry’s strategy by outsourcing manufacturing of its hardware to Foxconn, which is most notable for manufacturing the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Wii U. The reason behind this move is to have the company focus more heavily on software technology development. The company wants to make the brand name synonymous with work. Blackberry’s new brand focus is software and service centric, making up 54% of the company’s revenues in 2013. Blackberry Limited has a loyal consumer base, and is most recognized for its sophisticated network security system, most notably its advanced encryption capabilities, which allows for secure exchange of e-mails. This...
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...In Motion (RIM) commonly known as RIM is an Canadian company is the primarily maker and provider of BlackBerry wireless devices and e-mail services (Roberto, 2010). In 1984, Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) is founded by Mike Lazardis. The headquarters of the company are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (RIM, 2012). Slogan Following is the slogan of RIM: “Love what you do” (BlackBerry, 2012). Company Overview "Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is the company behind the BlackBerry product line" (RIM, 2012). RIM is a designer, producer and marketer of wireless solutions in the worldwide mobile communications market and revolutionized the mobile industry with launch the BlackBerry smartphone in 1999 (RIM, 2011). The company was founded by Mike Lazaridis and RIM was established in 1984, while Lazaridis was studying at the University of Waterio, Ontario (RIM, 2011). There are approximately 16.000 employees in the company and the company's approximately 5000 employees work in the R&D department, in Europe, Canada and the U.S (RIM, 2011).Since 1996 the company has been developed and grown and RIM the world's fastest growing company became the cover on the Fortune magazine in August 2009 (RIM, 2011). Approximately 150 million BlackBerry smartphones sold in 2011 (RIM, 2011).Blackberry smartphones are the top-selling smartphones in the US (Maisto, 2012). Mission Statement RIM's mission is to make BlackBerry smartphones and other products became the most popular around the world (Roberto...
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...BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1999.[2][3] BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more. They are primarily known for their ability to send and receive (push) email and instant messages while maintaining a high level of security through on-device message encryption. BlackBerry devices support a large variety of instant messaging features, including BlackBerry Messenger. BlackBerry accounts for 3% of mobile device sales worldwide in 2011, making its manufacturer RIM the sixth most popular device maker (25% of mobile device sales are smartphones).[4] The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies.[5] As of October 2011, there were seventy million subscribers worldwide to BlackBerry.[6] At present the Caribbean and Latin America, have the highest penetrations of BlackBerry smartphones worldwide – with up to about 45 per cent in the region having a RIM device.[7] Modern GSM-based BlackBerry handhelds incorporate an ARM 7, 9 or ARM 11 processor,[8] while older BlackBerry 950 and 957 handhelds used Intel 80386 processors. The latest BlackBerry models called "Torch" (Torch 9850/9860, Torch 9810, and Bold 9900/9930) have a 1.2 GHz MSM8255 Snapdragon Processor, 768...
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...------------------------------------------------- History Mike Lazaridis - Founder and former co-CEO of BlackBerry The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany. The name BlackBerry was coined by the marketing company Lexicon Branding. The name was chosen due to the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to that of the drupelets that compose the blackberry fruit. In 2003, the more commonly known smart phone BlackBerry was released, which supports push email, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet network. BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on email. RIM currently offers BlackBerry email service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through its BlackBerry Connect software. The original BlackBerry device had a monochrome display, but all current models have colour displays. All models, except for the Storm series and the all-touch Torch 9850/9860 have a built-in QWERTY keyboard, optimized for "thumbing", the use of only the thumbs to type. The Storm 1 and Storm 2 include a Sure Type keypad for typing. Originally, system navigation was achieved with the use of a scroll wheel mounted on the right side of phones prior to the 8700. The track wheel was replaced by the trackball with the introduction of the Pearl series which allowed for 4 way scrolling. The trackball was replaced by the optical track pad with the introduction of the Curve 8500 series. Models made to use iDEN networks...
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...troubles BlackBerry blues Research In Motion can ill afford embarrassing service interruptions CAN’T live with them; can’t live without them. Users of BlackBerry smartphones often curse the flashing red light telling them that another e-mail demands attention. Yet they curse its absence more. October 12th was the third day running of service failures, starting in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and then spreading to Asia and the Americas. Anger found work for idle thumbs: many tweeted their rage at Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes BlackBerrys—presumably from other devices. For RIM, the outages could scarcely have been worse timed. The company has had a bad year. In the quarter ending in August its revenues were 10% lower than a year before, at $4.2 billion. Profits, at $329m, were down by more than half. According to Gartner, a research and consulting firm, in the second (calendar) quarter RIM’s share of the smartphone market dropped to 12%, from 19% a year earlier. BlackBerrys are still to many people’s taste. Corporate road-warriors swear by them as well as at them. Wielders of clumsy middle-aged thumbs like a QWERTY keyboard of buttons (though touch screens are also on offer). Information-technology departments, particularly in companies that put a special premium on security, love them too: life is fairly simple with a PC on every desk and a BlackBerry in every hand. And many youngsters, especially in Britain, have taken to BlackBerry Messenger...
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...group, Im Md shihab Alam khan, then…..well today the topic of our presentation is how blackberry does it. So here we will discuss on blackberry’s history, features, advantages, market share etc. before that I would like to talk a bit on the emergence of smartphones. Emergence of smartphones: Who introduced smartphone first apple, rim, htc, nokia. Actually IBM was the first organization offered consumers a highly advanced mobile phone. In 1993, the company introduced what could be considered the world's first smartphone - simply called Simon. This first smartphone featured an amazing array of features - email, address book, clock, calendar, note pad, and even the ability to send and receive faxes. During the mid-90's, Nokia began to heat things up by introducing its first line of smartphone - the Nokia 9000 series. This phone was not only the first in a series of popular smart phones manufactured by Nokia, they were also the most expensive, coming in at 20-40% more costly than its rivals. The Nokia 9210 was indeed the first real and true smartphone due to its open operating system. After that company like Rim, HTC and apple started producing smartphones. History of BlackBerry: BlackBerry is a line of wireless mobile devices developed by Canadian company Research In Motion popularly known as RIM. In the picture we can see Jim balsilli and mike lazaridis, maker of the world renowned Blackberry wireless solution. previously it was a computer science consultancy firm in 1984. Although...
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...| RIM and Organizational Change | [Type the document subtitle] | | MGMT 419 | 10/15/2011 | | Research in Motion Research in Motion (RIM) began as an electronics and computer science consulting business started by Mike Lazaridis (current Co-CEO) and Douglas Fregin in 1984. Within 4 years of inception RIM became the first wireless data technology developer in North America. While RIM started out working with pages its focus changed to two-way wireless communication around the same time that Jim Balsille (current co-CEO) joined the company in 1992 (RIM, 2011). Since Research in Motions beginnings in 1984 there have been various organizational changes. This paper will analyze these changes based on internal and external pressures, the various types of changes that occurred, management’s role in these changes, the resistance to these changes and the consequences of the entire change process. This paper will conclude with a summarizing flowchart showing how these changes progressed. Organizational Changes at Research in Motion The period of time that this paper will discuss ranges from January 2010 to present. It is important to note that not all the consequences of the decisions made have become apparent so when looking at results there will be some items that serve as possible outcomes. In January of 2010 Research in Motion had a stock value of $69.30. At this time competitors like Apple were announcing new products such as the iPad. In light of Blackberry’s...
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...Strategy 3.1. Current Strategy 3.2. Projected Strategy 3. Core Competencies 4. Industry Dynamics 5. Technology Sourcing 6. Product Development Strategy 7. Strategy to Protect Innovations 8. Bibliography Executive Summary This document has been prepared to provide RIM, the makers of Blackberry, with a new insight for a strategic plan that will aid the organization into becoming a fair market leader once more. RIM transformed into a dominating force in the cell phone industry between the early 1990s and late 2006 with innovative technology for their Blackberry Smartphones. As an avid Blackberry user, I’ve seen RIM prosper into a fine organization, but most recently the company has been in a downturn. Research and Development hasn’t been effective in creating products with greater return on investment (ROI). With all the new technological advances in the cell phone industry, competitors Apple and the Google Android market, has gained several new customers from RIM. This is mostly due to RIM’s lack of new product innovativeness, such as design and improved system functionality. RIM’s revenue has suffered greatly from what makers of the iPhone and Android product-line has placed on the market for consumers and businesses alike. In order for RIM to begin to strive in its industry again, a few adjustments need to be made with respects to implementing a better marketing strategy. They will need to re-establish who their target market or demographics...
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...additional distracting infringement suits arose. Those holding patents thought they could get rich just by having a lawyer knock on RIM’s door. The study shadows Norm Lo trying to bring BlackBerry’s entry into mainland China to fruition. Should he “play hardball?” Is slow and steady going to do it? Is RIM getting walked all over in China, or is this what an outside firm should expect? Wishful thinking and a great product are not enough. Incentives must be properly aligned with the local partner China Mobile. Meanwhile, China Mobile moved to introduce products that compete at the low end—which may be the best point of entry into this market. RIM could introduce a stripped-down product, but this would be uncharted territory for a BlackBerry, and potential customers may not...
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