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...Unit 1 Case Analysis: Apple Inc. GB520 Strategic Human Resource Management Chola Kelly Oct 30, 2012 Introduction For the past 30 years, Apple Inc. has been successful with their products. In 2007, Apple sales were $24 Billion range and had a 24 percent increase from the 2006 sales. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in a car garage in Los Altos, California on April 1, 1976. They sold 200 computers in a short period of time and decided to take on a third member in order to take the Apple to the next level. A.C Markkula Jr. a retired millionaire from Intel joined Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and launched a product, a simple computer that can be used straight of the box and called it Apple II. They sold more than 100,000 and increased they annual sales to $1billion in less than three years and became the new leader in PC industry by the end of 1980 (Yoffie& Slind, 2008). In 1981, Apple’s revenues was growing but their market shares was dropping when IBM enter the PC industry. By 1982, Apple market shares dropped to 6.2% and during this time Steve Jobs had left Apple and John Sculley was hired. John Sculley was able to raise Apple’ market share from 6.2 percent to 8 percent in three years. When Apple decided to sale their Macs for more than $8,000 in order to stay above their competitors such as IBM their sale strategy back fired with IBM lowered their computer prices, which made Apple’s computers overprices...
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... ENIAC 8 Colossus 9 • Describe some of the earliest forms of computers. 10 The Emergence of the Personal Computer 11 Objective • Discuss the transition of influence in the development of the personal computer. 12 Prior to the Personal Computer • Computers were very large. • Computers were very expensive. • Computers were quite rare. 13 History of the PC • Before the IBM PC – 1975 to 1981 • The IBM PC – 1981 • The IBM XT – 1983 • The IBM AT – 1984 • The IBM PS/2 – 1987 • Waning of IBM as the pace setter – 1987 to present 14 The First PC • Generally considered the MITS Altair • Introduced in January 1975 • Based on the 8080 Intel Processor • Sold for $395 in kit form 15 Before the IBM PC, personal computers used: • A variety of microprocessors • Many different architectures • A variety of operating systems 16 The IBM PC • Introduced on August 12, 1981 • Used the Intel 8088 microprocessor • Operated at 4.77 MHz • No hard drive • One or two single-sided floppy drives • Used MS-DOS 1.0 • Introduced the 8-bit ISA bus 17 The IBM PC brought standardization • Intel Microprocessors • Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) • Architecture 18 The IBM XT • Introduced in 1983 • Included a 10 MB hard drive • Used MS-DOS 2.0 • 16-bit ISA Bus 19 The IBM AT • Introduced in 1984 • Based on Intel’s 80286 microprocessor • Operated at 6 MHz • 20 MB hard drive • Used MS-DOS 3.0 20 The IBM PS/2 • Introduced in 1988...
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...that loss can be played down as an anomaly for a company that has been a reliable moneymaker for decades, weak sales in Microsoft’s Windows business cannot. Microsoft said on Thursday that its revenue from Windows fell 13 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter, which ended June 30. Windows sales looked worse than they really were in part because Microsoft had to change how it recognized that revenue because of an offer it has extended to people who buy PCs running Windows 7. Under that offer, users can pay $14.99 to upgrade to Windows 8 when it comes out in October. If Microsoft had not had to defer a portion of its Windows sales — $540 million in this case — its Windows revenue would have declined 1 percent, still a dismal performance that underscores the challenges in the traditional computer business right now. Sales in the PC market have stagnated as consumers have diverted their technology spending to more exciting technologies, including smartphones and tablet computers like the iPad. Microsoft and other companies in the PC industry are hoping to reignite growth in the business with the release of Windows 8, an operating system that has been revamped to work better on touch-screen devices. The blockbuster success of the iPad has forced other significant changes at Microsoft, most notably the company’s decision to design and sell its own tablet computer, called Surface. Technology executives and analysts say they believe Microsoft chose to make Surface, the first computer...
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...Managing in the global environment Respected Professor Michael Altamirano Week 7 Assignment Submitted by Jayamoorthy Arulmani 1. Do a SWOT analysis of the Nokia-Microsoft Strategic Alliance in the Global Mobile phone industry. SWOT Analysis is referred in 4 terms which is used in competitor analysis of each company must care about four terms as follows as Strength: * World biggest cell organization, * Extension more than 50 nations and a business’s offer of 31%, * Continuous innovative work area, * Cells are incredible value extent making it reasonable by any social class and signifying its prevalence, | Weakness: * Claims a backup serving its advanced mapping and route, * Amassing of the administration areas in the created nations when contrasted with creating ones, * Presenting telephones aren't utilize cordial so couldn't accomplish the normal achievement, * The new promptings are basically for the high innovation telephones as opposed to advancements with respect to low value sparing telephones, | Opportunities: * Nation telephones for prominent telephones are hard to interpret, * Nokia have a high game changer over its rivals regarding brand mentally separate biggest piece of the overall industry and infiltration, * Has the crest time to enter developing markets in India | Threats: * Advancements are liable to expand piece of the overall industry alongside deals, * Contenders like Samsung, Sony Ericson, and Motorola...
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...IJB-2735; No. of Pages 23 ARTICLE IN PRESS i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f m e d i c a l i n f o r m a t i c s x x x ( 2 0 1 1 ) xxx–xxx journal homepage: www.intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/ijmi Older adults: Are they ready to adopt health-related ICT? Tsipi Heart ∗ , Efrat Kalderon Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel a r t i c l e Article history: i n f o a b s t r a c t Background: : The proportion of older adults in the population is steadily increasing, causing healthcare costs to rise dramatically. This situation calls for the implementation of healthrelated information and communication technologies (ICT) to assist in providing more costeffective healthcare to the elderly. In order for such a measure to succeed, older adults must be prepared to adopt these technologies. Prior research shows, however, that this population lags behind in ICT adoption, although some believe that this is a temporary phenomenon that will soon change. Objectives: : To assess use by older adults of technology in general and ICT in particular, in order to evaluate their readiness to adopt health-related ICT. Method: : We employed the questionnaire used by Selwyn et al. in 2000 in the UK, as well as a survey instrument used by Morris and Venkatesh, to examine the validity of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the context of computer use by older employees. 123 respondents answered the questions...
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...Case Analysis, Apple Inc. 1 Case Analysis, Apple Inc. 1 of 4 Case Analysis, Apple Inc. 2 This case analysis is written to analyze the topic of Strategic Management and answering the question of why it is critical to the success of an organization in meeting its goals and mission. This analysis will address the major issues surrounding the organization or individuals involved with the organization, will identify alternate courses of action to address the issues identified with a decision/recommendation for action. Once called Apple Computer and historically know for its Macintosh personal computers (PC) line, Apple Computer dropped the latter part of its name in 2007 and became Apple, Inc. Even though non-PC product lines drove the majority of Apple’s financial performance there still seemed to be no real change in the company’s strategic profile. There were several thousand people that were laid off and by lying off employees to try and fix their financial issues, could have been a portion of the problem (Yoffie & Slind, 2008). Jobs are what contribute to a company’s effectiveness. If the jobs had been retained and management had attempted to find new ways of conducting business to survive by being innovative, Apple, Inc. may have witnessed success earlier (Mello, 2011, pp 112-115). Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and John Sculley came on board and made great strides towards increase in effective marketing, partnering with other companies and joint ventures...
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...FTP – TCP PORT 21 – control command SSH – TCP PORT 22 – secure shell used for secure log-in, file transfer and port forwarding TELNET –TCP PORT 23 – telnet unencrypted text communications SMTP – TCP PORT 25 – simple mail transfer protocol, email routing DNS – TCP/UDP PORT 53 – domain name system TFTP – UDP PORT 69 – trivial file transfer HTTP – TCP PORT 80 and TCP HTTPS PORT 443 – hypertext transfer protocol and secure hypertext POP3 – TCP PORT 110 – post office protocol SNMP – UDP PORT 161 – simple network management protocol HTTPS – TCP PORT 443 – hypertext transfer protocol/ over SSL/TLS POP3 servers hold incoming email messages and SMTP server handle sending of your email TCP is connection-oriented protocol and UDP is connectionless protocol Orig. IEEE Standard Shortname Informal Name Speed Type Cabling 802.3 10BASE5 Ethernet 10Mbps Thick Coaxial 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet 100Mbps UTP 802.3z 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet 1000Mbps Fiber 802.3ae 10GBASE-X 10GbE 10Gbps Fiber 802.3af Power over Ethernet enhancements 12.95w 802.3at Power over Ethernet enhancements 25W • Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection- it’s the LAN access method for Ethernet • CAT5 – 2 variety cabling UTP or SCTP flexible with speed 10 or 100Mbps up to 100Mhz ...
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...Case Study 1-2 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in 2010 In 1979, Wal-Mart store was an unknown retailer compared to Kmart, the industry leader. “In less than 25 years, Wal-Mart had risen to become the largest corporation in sales,” (Barney & Hesterly, 2012, PC 1-13). Wal-Mart had many challenges to face in the discount trade. This case displays Wal-Mart’s competitive advantages, how they developed them, if they are sustainable and how they have battled with their competitors. Furthermore, through the VRIO Framework and Porter’s Five Forces Model, it helped analyze how Wal-Mart has strived passed its competitors and what keeps it the market’s frontrunner. Competitive Advantages Wal-Mart has a competitive advantage over other discount stores. Competitive advantage is described as, “When it is able to create more economic value than rival firms,” (Barney & Hesterly, 2012, p 10). The most critical competitive advantages over their competitors would be pricing. “Large discount retailers such as Wal-Mart derived considerable purchasing clout with suppliers because of their immense size,” (Barney & Hesterly, 2012, PC 1-7). Due to the fact that Wal-Mart has so many stores, they can negotiate price. Competitors were not able to get their products pricing down as low as Wal-Mart’s, which in return allowed them to offer their customers lower prices. “Economic value is simply the difference between the perceived benefits gained by a customers that purchases a firm’s products...
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...stage.3 KFC also started international expansion early, opening its first overseas outlet in England in 1964. However, it was given a bumpy ride when it began to penetrate the market in Asia. The Japanese outlets were far less successful than McDonald’s and only started to make a profit in 1976, six years after KFC entered Japan. KFC outlets opened in Hong Kong in 1973 but were all closed down within two years. The company would eventually win the confidence of Hong Kong customers ten years after its first entry. In Taiwan it experienced relatively smoother development, although KFC headquarters was to spend a huge amount of money and effort in order to get the ownership back from its joint venture partners at a later stage.4 This case was written by Gabriel Szulanski, Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, Weiru Chen, Assistant Professor of Strategy, and Jennifer Lee, Research Associate. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. The...
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...noting that, “The enthusiasm of the Apple faithful may be overdone, but Mr. Jobs’s record suggests that when he blesses a market, it takes off.”1 The company started off as “Apple Computer,” best known for its Macintosh personal computers (PCs) in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Despite a strong brand, rapid growth, and high profits in the late 1980s, Apple almost went bankrupt in 1996. Then Jobs went to work, transforming “Apple Computer” into “Apple Inc.” with innovative non-PC products starting in the early 2000’s. In fact, by 2010, the company viewed itself as a “mobile device company.”2 In the 2009 fiscal year, sales related to the iPhone and the iPod represented nearly 60% of Apple’s total sales of $43 billion.3 Even in the midst of a severe economic recession, revenues and net income both soared (see Exhibits 1a through 1c). Meanwhile, Apple’s stock was making history of its own. The share price had risen more than 15fold since 2003 (See Exhibit 2). By almost any measure, Apple’s turnaround was a spectacular accomplishment. Yet Steve Jobs knew that no company in the technology industry could relax. Challenges abounded. In 2009, for example, iPod sales were falling. At the same time, Microsoft introduced Window 7, which led to a resurgence in PC sales. Even though Macintosh sales had grown faster than the industry in...
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...1. How attractive is the PC industry? Conduct an industry analysis on the PC industry (A) in its early stages, and (B) in its later stages. Comment on how the industry has evolved. In personal computer industry, we considered two different time periods. The early stage includes development from 1980s to the early 2000s, and the later stages starts from early 2000s to now. Threat of Entry Early Period PC industry has low entry barrier which is brought by IBM’s entry to the market. In 1980s, IBM adopts open architecture strategy which outsources its operating system (OS) and microprocessors to Microsoft and Intel respectively. This strategy also has several implications: (1) product design and feature information is also available to other potential competitors, (2) IBM does not possess any patents related to product design, which allows competitors to copy the product designs. For small companies, open architecture significantly reduces the risk of market entry as it significantly reduces capital investment for firms to develop their own OS and microprocessors. Another industry environment that sustains lowers entry barrier to 1990s is network effect, which is defined as increase in products’ value due to increase in its popularity among consumers. As IBM converts PC as the mainstream and adopts open architecture strategy, Microsoft and Intel collaboratively develops a new standard known as “Wintel”. Manufacturers, ranging from Dell to generic companies, are able to use...
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...The present case study «Apple Inc. in 2010» deals with the main problems of Apple Inc. (previously known as Apple Computer, Inc. for the first 30 years) - an American multinational corporation that along with its subsidiaries designs, manufactures and sells personal computers, consumer electronics and software. The company's best-known hardware products are the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Its most popular software includes the Mac OS X - a PC operating system and iOS – а mobile operating system as well as the iTunes media store. By 2009 Apple Inc. had over 300 retail stores in several countries. It is one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world by market capitalization, as well as the largest technology company in the world by revenue and profit. As of 2010, the company had approximately 46,600 full-time employees. Within the last decade (2000-2010) Apple has successfully introduced three major innovations – iPod in 2001, iPhone in 2007 and iPad in 2010. To view how the company got so successful let us review in short the history and growth of the Apple Inc. over the years. As we know it was founded in 1976 by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, two young talented electronics masterminds both in their early twenties, who unfortunately dropped out of college. Their first computer was manufactured in the Jobs family's garage and called Apple I. The company was incorporated in 1977 and was named Apple Computer, Inc., but the word "Computer"...
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...Session II 2009 Instructor: Dr. Lou Adler Office: Bella Vista, AR Telephone: 479-855-2233 Office Hours: Upon Request Email: ladler@uark.edu Required Textbooks & Equipment 1. Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 7th edition, Jack Meredith & Samuel Mantel, John Wiley and Sons, 2009. 2. Project Management Case Studies, 3rd edition, Harold Kerzner, John Wiley and Sons, 2009. 3. Access to a personal computer (PC) for assignments in MS ProjectPro, which must be loaded into the machine. Grading |Homework |Weekly Assignments |100 pts |10% |Grading | |Exams |Mid-Term |200 pts |20% | A ≥ 90% | | |Final |300 pts |30% | B 80-89% | |Course Projects |Individual Project |150 pts |15% | C 70-79% | | |Team Project |150 pts |15% | D 65-69% | |Class Participation | |100 pts |10% | F ≤ 64% | |Total | |1000 pts |100% | | The grading scale reflects the baseline for the course. ...
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