Memorandum To: Dr. Bruce Bellner From: Joel Meyer, Daniel Orlando, Raymond Osterhage Date: February 5th, 2015 Re: Apple Case Analysis 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. The PC industry has been declining over the years. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was the only option for people who wanted a computing device. As Apple moved into the market and started
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achieving and extending best practices. An absolute improvement and leads to competitive convergence. 2. Industry analysis a) Industry: collection of firms whose products (or services) are perfect or near perfect substitutes. b) Defining an industry’s boundaries: 2 components: a. Scope of products or services b. Geographic scope c) Porter’s five forces analysis 1. Threat of new entrants: Profitable markets that yield high returns will attract new firms. This results
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Clara, California. The American multinational corporation mainly involves in designing and marketing consumer electronics, computer software and as well as personal computers. Differentiation is the current strategy position of Apple Inc. There are five main firms in the PC industry and among them; the world’s leading brand is Dell. Apple’s major target is to sustain their present strategic position and to take over the market position as a leader. The key stakeholders include Steve Jobs, employees
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techniques for developing a comprehensive integrated strategic plan and for managing implementation of the plan in dynamic environments. The key objectives of the course are: • To provide a clear understanding and framework for dynamic strategic analysis and formulation. • To establish clear relationships between strategy formulation and
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Intel Corporation Strategic Analysis Group-11 Maithilee Deshmukh-123 Siddhesh Hegde-51 Swapnil Wagh-53 Swati Agrawal-54 (PGDM-B) Group-11 CONTENTS 1. History & Introduction 2. Industry Analysis 2.1 Porter’s Five Forces Framework 2.2 Complementors & Strategic Groups 2.3 Life Cycle Analysis 2.4 SWOT Analysis 2.5 PESTEL Analysis 3. Internal Analysis 3.1 Resource Based View Analysis 3.2 VRIO Framework 4. Business Strategy
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driven strategy in nowadays markets. 26.01.2012. ______________________ Table of content * Introduction, Resume page 4 * Supply Chain page 5 * Buying behaviour page 8 * ABC analysis page 11 * PESTEL page 13 * Porter’s 5 forces page 16 * SWOT page 19 * Summary/ Conclusion page 23 Würth Case Würth is a German company and it was established by Adolf Würth, in 1945. The company supplied screws, nuts and bolts at the beginning
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Apple in case study Question 1/ Analyze the microenvironment and drivers of changes of the PC industry. What are the opportunities and threats facing Apple, Inc. (PESTEL analysis, “Uncertainty/Impact” drivers’ analysis and Scenario Planning)? 20% : a) Opportunities and threats facing Apple, Inc. Opportunities: * Entrance in new markets; * High levels of demand of Apple’s products (IPhone, IPad); * Damages from competitors who doesn’t respect Apple’s patent; * Exploitation
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Table of Contents 1. PESTEL analysis 2 2. Porter's five forces model 4 3. Strengths and weaknesses of Apple, Inc (7-s model) 6 4. Core competency of Apple Inc and VRIO model. What were Apple’s competitive advantages? 8 5. New formula to create a sustainable competitive advantage 8 6. Assessment of Apple’s initial strategy for the iPhone. Quick change to a different strategy. 8 7. EFE and IFE matrix; strategic recommendations on Apple Inc SWOT matrix; SPACE matrix; evaluation of strategic
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Evaluating a Company’s External Environment LEARNING OBJECTIVES LO1 Identify factors in a company’s broad macro-environment that may have strategic significance. Recognize the factors that cause competition in an industry to be fierce, more or less normal, or relatively weak. Become adept at mapping the market positions of key groups of industry rivals. Learn how to determine whether an industry’s outlook presents a company with sufficiently attractive opportunities for growth and profitability
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Lenovo is the number one PC maker in Chinese PC industry which gained 35.8 percent of market share in 2007. In recent year, it started to operate businesses out of greater China such as Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Lenovo’s current pillar strategy is that strive to grow faster and more profitably than the industry by delivering best-engineered PCs and unequaled ownership experience in the global PC market. Since the Lenovo decided to go international, the Europe becomes
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