first quarter 2011. In June 2011, Nokia was overtaken by Apple, as the world's biggest smartphone maker by volume. For many years Nokia enjoyed an overwhelming domination on the market of personal mobile devices. The company managed to build the strong brand, easily recognizable style of it’s devices and consumer favorite. Due to serious mistakes in product and distribution strategy, as well as growing competition from companies like Apple, Samsung ,Motorola and others, Nokia started to experience
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Most Important Cybersecurity Vulnerability Facing IT Managers Today: You and I Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the early years generally revolved around problems with computer hardware and software with no solid definition of what a vulnerability really was, much less which vulnerability would take home the “Most Important Vulnerability” title. In his thesis proposal on “Computer Vulnerability Analysis”, Krsul (1997, p. 2) starts his “Definition of Vulnerability” section by delving into the fact
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AngularJS Starter Kit Copyright © 2013 Hakin9 Media Sp. z o.o. SK Table of Contents Angular: The DOM API You Have Been Waiting For Brad Davis 08 11 16 26 34 43 Angular.js, a javascript library and framework created in Google, is a fresh view into building great web applications. You can read a lot of articles on how it separates the concerns of the application, improves testability, and keeps to web app best practices, but I want to highlight a feature that is not shown off as regularly
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A Study of Production and Operation Management Of McDonald's Submitted to: Prof. Vivek Raina Submitted by: Mahesh Kumar Meena (M00220) Ajay Patel (M00226) McDonald's Himalaya Mall Location Gurukul › Ground Floor, Himalaya Mall, Gurukul, Ahmedabad Cuisines Fast Food Opening hours 10 AM to 12 Midnight World's largest chain of fast food restaurants. The Golden Arches—the corporate emblem, symbolized pleasant, fast service and tasty, inexpensive food. Serve around 68 million customers
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MANAGING FOR STAKEHOLDERS: TRADE-OFFS OR VALUE CREATION1 One of the central uses of stakeholder theory, in its original form, was as a counterpoint to the idea that corporations should be managed in the interests of shareholders. As the theory developed the debate was often framed in terms of “shareholders vs. stakeholders.” While developing “theories of the firm” is an interesting and useful project, focusing solely on “theory of the firm” obscures a more important contribution of stakeholder theory
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recognizable. Research showed that the Virgin name was associated with words such as 'fun', 'innovative', 'daring' and 'successful'. The personal image and personality of the founder, Richard Branson, were high profile; in British advertisements for Apple Computers, together with Einstein and Gandhi, he was featured as a 'shaper of the 20th century'. Origins and ownership Virgin was founded in 1970 as a mail order record business and developed as a private company in music publishing and retailing
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Hi, I noted down she wanted to see the board of directors, chain of governance, csr - Nokia have self-enlightenment for their work in emerging countries... and then any legal requirements that we think will be relevent to stakeholders. BRIEF HISTORY OF NOKIA Nokia is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of mobile phones. In the 2nd quarter of 2008, it was able to grab 80% share from the global market. It elevated Finland to being an even wealthier country accounting for 30% of it's GDP
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gamification4.3 Gamification’s effects on business4.4 Examples of gamification4.5 Criticism – The dark side of gamification | pp.18-20 | Chapter V – Corporate Social Responsibility5.1 Introduction5.2 Defining and explaining CSR 5.3 The Foxconn and Apple scandal5.4 Recommendations and Actions | pp.21-22 | Chapter VI – Recommendations to Management | pp.23-24 | Chapter VII – Conclusions | pp.25 | References | pp.26-27 | Executive Summary Executive Summary This report provides an analysis
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2 The Entrepreneurial Process "Who can be on entrepreneur you ask? Anyone who wants to experience the deep, dark canyons of uncertainly and ambiguity, and who wonts to walk the breathtaking highlands of success. But caution, do not plan to walk the Iotter until you hove experienced the former" An entrepreneur Results Expected Upon completion of this chapter you will have: l. Developed a definition of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process that spans lifestyle to high potential ventures
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proper leadership can be seen in the technological enterprise of Apple. Apple’s mission is not only to make money but to change the way individuals’ learn. The reason that Apple constantly shares with other enterprises is common managerial requirements that insure basic levels of organizational purpose, competence, reliability, structure, and stability. However, the leaders within these organizations must also respond as well to Apple in the unique political realities that they face. Role in management
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