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objectives. Apple through its innovative hardware‚ software‚ peripherals‚ and services aims to be a continued leader at bringing the best user experience to its customers. With its unique ability of designing and developing its own operating systems‚ hardware‚ application software‚ and services‚ Apple provides its customers with new products and solutions with ease-of-use‚ seamless integration‚ and innovative design. The Company has various products like the iPhone‚ iPad‚ Mac‚ Apple TV‚ and Operating
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Unit1 Case Analysis: Apple Inc. Michelle Wilson GB520 Strategic Human Resource Management Dr. Steven Cates What is strategic management and why is it critical to the success of an organization in meeting its goals and mission? Background In January 2007‚ Apple Computer a global company changed its name to Apple Inc. and it has been on a strategic path from being a vendor of Macintosh PC to creating innovative twenty-first-century products. With the technology that many companies can’t complete
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4.0 Situation Analysis Situation analysis refers a systematic collection and evaluation of past and present economical‚ social‚ political and technological data and aimed to identification of internal and external force that may affect the organization’s performance and choice of strategies‚ and assessment of the organization’s current and future strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats. A Marketing Plan is created to guide businesses on how to communicate the benefits of their products to
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A. Company Analysis Company Information (source Apple’s latest annual report on their web site) Apple Computer‚ Inc. was incorporated in 1977. Products include personal computers and related software‚ services‚ peripherals‚ and networking solutions; line of portable digital music players along with related accessories and services; personal communication devices; online sale of third-party audio and video products. Products sold worldwide through online stores‚ retail stores‚ and
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Customer Value Based Analysis (CVF Approach) Apple’s brand name has a very highly valued name in society. As an American‚ it is common for people of all ages and demographics to be a customer of Apple. It is prestigious yet also almost considered the normal in today’s society to have an Apple iPhone‚ Apple iPad‚ Apple iPod‚ or Apple Macbook. Society values Apple as having a high quality product that consumers can rely on but this also comes at a price. Most customers of Apple are just below the
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Situation Analysis/ Environment / Industry The rise and fall of the Schwinn Bicycle Company seems unreal especially after having over 100 years of experience manufacturing bicycles. Schwinn was once a household name in its category of bicycles in the U.S.A. You didn’t have to be rich to own a bicycle by Schwinn because the bicycle was always very affordable. They were known for their quality but they kept their product too simple for too long. Schwinn started out as the most desired bicycle
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Market Analysis of the Apple iPod The market studied here is that of the iPod: ‘a brand of portable digital media player de-signed and marketed by Apple Computer.’ Apple have cleverly created a mp3 player that has outsold all competition by using the advantage of brand loyalty. The iPod family has evolved since the original launch in October 2001 when the 5GB iPod was released‚ fol-lowed in 2002 with the launch of the 10GB and 20GB versions. By 2004 Apple had re-leased the iPod mini‚ iPod shuffle
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Increasing the Profit of Training Part Three When working to increase the profitability of training and running a training team as a P&L‚ as with any other business there are only two way to increase profit: increase revenue or decrease costs. Previous white papers have looked at how to quantify training efforts into revenue and discussed some strategies to reduce expense‚ but for most departments‚ the single largest expense by far is salary. In challenging economic times and a company is faced
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1) Define and compare the business models and areas of strength of Apple‚ Google‚ and Microsoft. A) Microsoft’s business model is operating systems which 95%of all computers use worldwide. The strengths for Microsoft are that they are still the leader in PC operating systems and desktop productivity software. But has failed miserably with regards towards smartphone hardware and software‚ mobile computing‚ cloud-based software apps; its internet portal B) Apple’s business model mainly focuses
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