Strategic Management Case plus Case Answer – Apple’s Profitable but Risky Strategy Case study Apple’s profitable but risky strategy When Apple’s Chief Executive – Steven Jobs – launched the Apple iPod in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007, he made a significant shift in the company’s strategy from the relatively safe market of innovative, premium-priced computers into the highly competitive markets of consumer electronics. This case explores this profitable but risky strategy. Note that this
Words: 2834 - Pages: 12
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT NOKIA NAME: SHALINI DEVI A/P MANOHARAN ID NUM: DCA 07-04101148 LEC NAME: MR SELVAMATHAN SUBMISSION DATE: 28 MAY 2012 TABLE OF CONTENT INTODUCTION Nokia is a multinational corporation engaged in the manufacturing of mobile phones devices, in converging internet and communication industries, having about 132,000 employees working worldwide. The organization is the World’s largest mobile manufacturing company and is operational is 150 different countries
Words: 19174 - Pages: 77
Human Resource Sustainability & Organizational Behaviours at NOKIA Case Study Assignment 3 Human Resource Sustainability & Organizational Behaviours at NOKIA Case Study Assignment 3 Contents History & Introduction to Nokia 2 Work- Life Balance (WLB) 3 Action Plan/Steps 4 Sustainability 5 Recruitment & Training 5 Action Plan/Steps 5 Sustainability 6 Retaining top talent by incentivising 6 Action Plan/Steps 7 Sustainability 7 Conclusion 8 REFRENCES
Words: 2819 - Pages: 12
Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s devices & services business, license Nokia’s patents and mapping services Sept. 03, 2013 Send EMail inShare1,157 REDMOND, Washington and ESPOO, Finland – Sept. 3, 2013 – Microsoft Corporation and Nokia Corporation today announced that the Boards of Directors for both companies have decided to enter into a transaction whereby Microsoft will purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s
Words: 5838 - Pages: 24
Nokia: Nokia Corporation is a multinational communications and information technology corporation (originally a paper production plant) that is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Its principal products are mobile telephones and portable IT devices. It also offers Internet services including applications, games, music, media and messaging, and free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services through its wholly owned subsidiary Navteq. Nokia owns a company named Nokia Solutions and Networks
Words: 6740 - Pages: 27
corrective actions. Nokia smartphones provide security and device management capabilities for both the business user and company IT needs. For most business users, security is a transparent feature that enables safe usage of the smartphone. Companies whoenable their employees to access email and other intranet data from smartphones, security accompanied with device management, provides tools to protect sensitive company data against unauthorized access. [pic] Security foundation Nokia Lumia smartphones
Words: 1020 - Pages: 5
Supplemental In-Depth Integrative Case Nokia Targets the Base of the Pyramid One of the most widely used clichés in the world of business is the so-called 80/20 rule. In the realm of sales, the rule is sometimes interpreted as “80 percent of our sales come from 20 percent of our customers.”1 One recent business theory that has challenged this rule is the so called BOP or Bottom of the Pyramid perspective, developed and popularized by C.K. Prahalad.2 It refers to the around 4 billion people at
Words: 5786 - Pages: 24
Supplemental In-Depth Integrative Case Nokia Targets the Base of the Pyramid One of the most widely used clichés in the world of business is the so-called 80/20 rule. In the realm of sales, the rule is sometimes interpreted as “80 percent of our sales come from 20 percent of our customers.”1 One recent business theory that has challenged this rule is the so called BOP or Bottom of the Pyramid perspective, developed and popularized by C.K. Prahalad.2 It refers to the around 4 billion people at
Words: 5786 - Pages: 24
Nokia - connecting people. Introduction In 1963 Nokia starts its journey in the field of telecommunications with developing radio telephones for the army and emergency services. Since then, Nokia came a long way with launching the world’s first international cellular network and the first to allow international roaming in 1981. Nokia introducing the first car phone in 1982 and in 1991, Harri Holkeri- the Finish prime minister by then, makes the world’s first GSM phone call with Nokia handset
Words: 2796 - Pages: 12
SVEN GRUNDBERG In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop talks about innovation, management, and guiding the embattled company through a difficult transition. Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single
Words: 2495 - Pages: 10
