background: Apple is an American multinational corporation that manufactures‚ designs‚ markets and sells mobile communication and media devices‚ digital music players‚ personal computers‚ consumer electronics and softwares and provides related services. The company’s variety of products such as Ipod music player‚ which has been an experience for Apple in dramatic growth since 2001‚ Ipad‚ Imac‚ Apple TV‚ professional software support and application through Itunes store‚ IBooks store‚ Apple Store‚ compatible
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* Apple is a company which produces computers and technological products like computers‚ mobiles . On April 1‚ 1976‚ the Apple computer was established . Steven Wozniak‚ a high school drop-out who worked for Hewlett-Packard‚ dabbled in computer-design and created what would become the Apple I. His high school buddy Steven Jobs‚ also a drop-out‚ worked for Atari and convinced him that the two should form a company to market the new computer‚ which eventually took off in 1977 with the Apple II.
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Case Background and Problem Statement Synopsis of the case situation This case is set in 2007‚ when Apple Computer Inc. just dropped the last word in its name and become Apple Inc.. This action is a remarkable milestone which indicates that Apple was no longer just a computer company. It moves into digital music‚ with the IPOD and with ITunes‚ and mobile devices‚ with the IPhone. Apple‚ Inc. Apple is really involved in two businesses: the computer market and the entertainment and media market. Its
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REVIEW OF ARTICLE USING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING AND FORECASTING TO IMPROVE STRATEGIS PLANNING BY Joel D. Lapin The Community College of Baltimore County Journal of Applied Research in the Community College‚ Vol.11‚ No.2‚ Spring 2004‚ pg 105-113 Joel D. Lapin is a professor of Sociology at The Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)‚ Catonsville Campus‚ and Vice President and lead consultant in external environmental scanning and forecasting for The Clements Group which
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Mercede Usiski and Ryan Hernandez In recent times‚ Apple has become one of the mightiest‚ richest‚ and most successful companies in the world‚ in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers- as well as multiple other American industries- have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history. However‚ the workers assembling iPhones‚ iPads‚ and other devices often labor in harsh conditions‚ according to workers themselves‚ worker advocates‚ and documents
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Wozniak and Steve Jobs were established Apple together after they graduated. When Wozniak successfully created Apple I‚ co-worker relationship between Steve Jobs and him began. The uses of Apple I was to make free phone calls for long-distance. Steve Jobs who had an eye for the future‚ sold the Apple I with Wozniak to the public and got the great appraisal for the public. Apple Computer Company started in 1997 and the first Apple Computer was born. Apple Inc. created manufactured and marketed mobile
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1. Introduction Apple Inc.‚ is known to be one of the world’s most valuable companies. It is a multi-national company with a worldwide presence; approximately 72‚800 employees and total net sales of $156 billion in the year 2012 (Apple annual report‚ 2012). Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak‚ both college dropouts‚ founded this corporation in 1976 - “Steve Jobs‚ helped to transform the way in which the computer is used today through his creation of the first computer processing unit and his creative
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upload your final paper to the anti-plagiarism system (Turnitin) no later than 11 a.m. on Friday 6 December and hand a hard copy to me in Lecture 9 on Friday 6 December. Introduction: The Apple brand name has become synonymous with innovation. Apple is no longer just a computer company. By 2012 Apple was worth more than Microsoft and Google combined. The question arises of the sustainability of Apple’s position in its various product markets – PCs‚ digital music‚ smartphones‚ and tablets.
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Chapter 3 The External Assessment Chapter Outline The Nature of the External Audit Strategic Management: Concepts & Cases 10th Edition Fred David The Industrial Organization (I/O) View PowerPoint Slides by Anthony F. Chelte Western New England College Copyright 2005 Prentice Hall Social‚ Cultural‚ Demographic & Environmental Forces Ch 3 -1 Chapter Outline (cont’d) Copyright 2005 Prentice Hall Ch 3 -2 Chapter Outline (cont’d) Political‚ Governmental‚ and Legal Forces Porter’s Five-Forces
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Introduction 3 LIDL Spain 3 Company Statement and operating principles (in summary) 3 1. Understanding the retail marketplace and customer needs and wants 4 1.1 Macro environment 4 1.1.1 Political: 4 1.1.2 Technological: 4 1.1.3 Environmental 4 1.1.4 Legal 4 1.2 Micro environment 5 1.2.1 Competitors 5 1.2.2 Customers 6 1.2.3 SWOT – analysis 6 2. Designing a customer-driven retail strategy 7 2.1 The market(s) toward which the retailer will direct its efforts 7
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