white-label firms? C.P.: HTC Corp in 2012. (HBS 9-712-423) ▪ Evaluate HTC’s performance to date. What are its competitive assets and liabilities? ▪ Is HTC’s competitive position sustainable? What are the main challenges HTC faces? How do they affect HTC’s competitive position? ▪ Peter Chou and Cher Wang led HTC’s transformation from a small player to a top-five producer of smartphones. What strategic actions would move HTC into the top three? Specifically: How can HTC differentiate its products
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High-Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) HTC was founded in 1997 by three business people and technology enthusiasts Cher Wang, HT Cho and Peter Chou. The company was introduced to the public as an independent brand starting from June 2006, and manufactured its first own brand product HTC Touch, which is claimed to be by the company a first finger-friendly touch-screen smartphone in June 2007. Masterman and Wood (2006) suggest identifying the business’s current market position through identifying if
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HTC (High Tech Computer Corporation) 1. Search for a vision, mission statement, and statement of values for your chosen firm. Note that not all organizations publish these statements specifically, so you may need to make inferences from the available information. Relevant information is often available at the firm's website (though it may take some searching) or is contained in its annual reports. You may also interview a manager of the firm or contact Investor Relations. You may also be able to
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HIC was founded in 1997 by three business people and technology enthusiasts Cher Wang, HT Cho and Peter Chou. The founders took the roles of Chairwoman, Director of Board and Chairman of HTC Foundation, and President and CEO respectively. Today HTC boasts with its popular products as Touch Diamond, Hero, HD2, HD Legend, and Desire, and has been ranked by Business Week as the second best performing technology company in Asia in 2007, and third place in Business Week Global listing in 2006. Since 2007
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GUPTA SECTION:D ENROLLMENT NO. : A1506914057 ASSIGNMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY HTC transformed itself an ODM to one of the leading provider of telecommunication devices. Empowered with strong R&D the company enters market as a first movers with numerous innovations which prized the company with high growth and many recognitions. While innovations, partnership with giant brands, strong manufacturing facility its strength HTC also have weakness of producing pricy products, having weak shipment network
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As more and more people continue to adopt mobile devices, they increasingly use them to store and access a variety of personal information. In addition, my companies are utilizing mobile devices to increase productivity and collaboration among employees. As of December 2013 Google’s Android Operation System was the top smart phone platform with 52.5% of the market share ("iOS Continues Gaining U.S. Smartphone Share"). As these numbers continue to grow cybercriminals have taken notice and there has
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1 HTC Market Segmentation HTC Corporation, formerly High Tech Computer Corporation, is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones founded in 1997. The company initially made smartphones based primarily on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, but in 2009 it began to shift its focus away from Windows Mobile devices to devices based on the Android operating system. Although initially the company made notebook computers, HTC decided to make a strong push towards hand-held devices. In 1998, they
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used and the most popular for smartphones and tablets today. Android has a distinct advantage over its competition in that it is available on a myriad of devices from nearly all the smartphone and tablet manufacturers today like Samsung, LG, Motorola, HTC, and many others whereas their closest competitors Apple and Blackberry are limited to only one or two devices. Smartphones have replaced nearly all home and regular cell phones almost entirely and have enabled people to do almost anything they would
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HTC - 8 keys elements in Business Model 1. Value proposition Value proposition is the benefits, including the intangible, nonquantitative ones, that a company can derive from using EC. In B2C EC, value proposition defines how a company’s product or service fulfills the needs of customers. Thus, a company can fulfill the needs of customers when they can obtain four sets of values that are created by e-business. According to Amit and Zott (2011) the four sets of values includes search and transaction
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