video: Ford’s Global Auto Strategy Running time 5 minutes. Available from ABC News A good film to use as part of lecture on Chapter 2: Global Enterprise [which lecture?] This short film describes Ford’s big gamble in the auto industry to develop a global car on the same platform worldwide. The auto is the Contour in the U.S. or the Mercury Mystique; in Europe it has been very successful as the Mondeo. The narrator explains the auto is to be sold in 60 countries yet remain responsive to local
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Apple Case 1. What were Apple’s competitive advantages? Apple was a hip alternative to other computer brands. It supported a plug-and-play peripheral‚ offered a cutting-edge‚ tightly integrated user experience. The Apple Mac Pro had a sleek metal case and featured high-end graphics capability. Apple had attractive design factors‚ enabled ease of use‚ had high security and was high-quality bundled software. 2. Analyze the dynamics of the PC industry. Are these dynamics favorable or problematic
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Scientific Approach‚ One of the Group’s most recent challenges is the African market. The Group merged and purchased Soft Sheen and Carson‚ thereby offering African consumers a new product line. The chosen approach was scientific. Alain Evrard‚ L’Oréal’s managing director for Africa‚ the Orient and the Pacific‚ explains that L’Oréal boosted African awareness of the combined brands by: "educating hairdressers about our products and providing training in how to use them."They opened a Chicago laboratory
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Apple‚ Inc. 2014 and the Global Smartphone Industry Learning Objectives • The dynamics of industries and customers change over time and its implications for strategic actions • The nature of sustainable competitive advantage • The timing of strategic moves • Multisided business platforms • The challenge of reinvigorating competitive advantage through innovation • The role of technology standards in competitiveness • Role
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APPLE CASE STUDY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT GENERAL INFORMATION • Apple Inc.‚ is a multinational consumer electronics and computer software corporation. • Headquartered in California. • Formerly known as Apple Computer Inc. • Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and 2009. APPLE STRATEGY • The transformations that occurred during the years from inception to present day have included many strategic management variations that drove the equipment and software
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Capitalizing on Social Media Trends and Opportunities A key to business survival is capitalizing on popular cultural trends. Communication though social media websites like Facebook‚ MySpace‚ Twitter‚ and You Tube is the latest cultural phenomenon. Companies are now taking advantage of this external opportunity in an effort to reach new markets and communicate more effectively with current and potential consumers. The purpose of this activity is to explore this trend as a strategic opportunity
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School of Business Course Syllabus Course Name: Global Business Strategies Course Number: MGT/448 - Version 5 Group Number: DB13BSA04 Course Start Date: September 17‚ 2013 Course End Date: October 15‚ 2013 COURSE SCHEDULE: Workshop 1: Tuesday – September 17‚ 2013 Workshop 2: Tuesday – September 24‚ 2013 Workshop 3: Tuesday – October 01‚ 2013 Workshop 4: Tuesday – October 08‚ 2013 Workshop 5: Tuesday – October 15‚ 2013 COURSE LOCATION‚ DAY/TIME: Pasadena Learning Center
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation Company that was co - founder by three people at the year of 1976‚ April 1 by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Apple Inc. is known for it product such as "The iPhone series‚ The I-Pad series and The MacBook Series". Apple first product was the ’Apple 1 personal computer kit’ that was hand-built by Steve Wozniak and first showcase to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club (Is an computer hobbyist users ’ group in which computer hobbyist
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Unilever is a complex global organization that has a portfolio of 400 brands‚ spanning 14 categories in home and personal care and food products. The company has 163‚000 employees in the 170 countries within which it operates (Unilever‚ 2010). Organizations such as Unilever face the challenge of configuring a global structure that “works well in diverse locations but also brings units together in a coordinated fashion” (Shenkar & Luo‚ 2007‚ p. 312). Given its wide range of products and the diversity
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Analysis of the global smartphone market and the strategies of its major players Hee-Chan Song Hanyang University‚ University of Texas at Dallas1 Business Administration‚ Philosophy Acknowledgment The author would like to acknowledge the valuable assistance of University of Texas at Dallas in the preparation of this manuscript‚ in particular the assistance of Professor Lee from the Management Department. The author is grateful to Professor Lee for offering positive feedback and suggestions for
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