INTRODUCTION Apple Inc. designs‚ manufactures and markets a wide range of personal computers‚ computer software‚ and portable music devices. Some of these Apple products include the Macintosh‚ iPods as well as the iPhones. Apple’s strong value chain is one of the reasons for its success today. Its’ efficient and strong value chain has allowed the company to expand globally with a strong presence in 102 countries. Furthermore‚ Apple has joined in the process of reintermediation‚ adding
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There are 6 levels of structural organization. We first begin with the chemical level which consists of atoms and molecules‚ which then combine together to form cells (the basic unit of life) this is known as the cellular level of organization. These cells will come together to form the next level of organization known as Tissue. After that tissue will join together creating organs; the very next level of organization. Organs all perform a particular function individually‚ but when there is more
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contrasting business. Stake Holders for Marks & Spencer’s and Pool Hayes Community School: 1. Customers 2. Management 3. Suppliers 4. Employees 5. Owners/Share holders 6. Trade Unions\Employer Associations 7. Local & National Communities 8. Environment 9. Government Customers are the most important stakeholders in Marks & Spencer’s as they are the people that by there products off of them. They have the potential to make the business or break
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Syllabus Business Studies: Recommended Book: Business Studies by Karen Borrington Peter Stimpson Session: 2011 to 2012 Class: 8A 1st Term April-June‚ 2011 | April-2012 | Unit 1 | The purpose of business activity | | Unit 2 | Types of business activity | May-2012 | Unit 3 | Forms of business organization | September-2012 | Unit 4 | Government and economic influence on business | October/November‚ 2012 | 1st Term Exams | | November-2012 | Ch.5 | Other external influences on business
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Unit four: Principles of supporting change in a business environment Assessment Name: Philip Bickerton Section 1 – Understand why change happens in a business environment 1. Explain why change happens in a business environment. You should include at least three reasons in your answer. For any business to be successful it must be willing to make changes to best provide the services that are required whilst at the same time being profitable‚ Businesses must constantly evolve and improve
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Q4. Is Apple’s strategy in its computer business strong enough to compete successfully against Dell and HP? From Exhibit 3 we can see that in 2008 Apple upholds 8.5 % of the U.S. PC Market. Today’s generation are now more techno aware and therefore their expectations are higher than what they used to be. Apples rivals such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard possess a large size of the market at 31.9% and 25.3% respectively. From analysing the case study it is evident that a vast majority of consumers
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Unit 1-P1 Business Ownership. There are several different types of business ownership which are most commonly used in business’ and company’s today‚ these include; Co-operative which is a business owned by its employees‚ Partnership which is a business owned by between 2 and 20 people‚ Private limited which is a business owner by a small groups of people who have shares and a Public limited business is owned by private individuals by shares bought and sold on the stock market. A charity is a
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Area 2 (p2) As a large Publicly-owned organisation‚ Bridgend College has a number of different types of stakeholders. To ensure that Bridgend College has to carefully manage these stakeholders. Customers (students)= with out students there would be no Bridgend college. Students are the customers of Bridgend College‚ the college depends upon the students and the success that they achieve both while at college and to a extent after they finish their education in order to keep the co college up
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Apple Inc. (Apple) has managed to create substantial value in the highly competitive personal computer industry‚ by innovating and forging a path considerably different from those of the largest competitors in the industry‚ successfully differentiating its products from those of the competition by choosing to focus on quality‚ design elegance‚ and superior customer service‚ while outsourcing actual manufacturing to trusted original equipment manufacturers. Yet‚ despite the advantages Apple has created
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Levels of Processing and memory The aim of the experiment is to investigate (a) whether level of processing (IV1) affects memory for words‚ (b) whether the intention to learn (IV2) has an effect upon memory and whether an effect of level of processing on memory for words is dependent upon intentionality of learning (IV1xIV2)‚ i.e. Is there an interaction effect? Levels of Processing is an influential theory of memory proposed by Craik and Lockhart (1972) which rejected the idea of the dual store
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