Apple‚ Inc. in 2010 Assignment Questions 1. What are the chief elements of Apple’s overall competitive strategy? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving? 2. What are the key elements of Apple’s strategy in computers‚ personal media players‚ and smartphones? Have its strategies in its core businesses yielded success? Explain. 3. What does a competitive strength assessment reveal about Apple’s computer business‚ as compared to the leaders in the personal computer industry
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Apple Inc. in 2012 1. What‚ historically‚ have been Apple’s competitive advantages? First competitive advantage of Apple is high margin. In Exhibit 5 you can compare the percentage of gross margins and R&D/Sales of three major PC manufacturers. The percentage of gross margin of apple is the highest among the three from 2006 while there is no big difference in R&D/Sales. This implies that the manufacturing process of Apple is more efficient than those of other companies and that consumers are willing
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Whether “Apple Computer” or “Apple Inc”‚ the company’s competitive advantage has historically always been innovation mixed with secrecy. Their superiority arises from being the first and furtive. They broke new ground with the first usable “personal computing devices”. They created a Mac OS and refused to license it out. They changed the way we listen to music‚ the iPod‚ and what we want our cell phone to do‚ iPhone. Job’s theory was to tell people what they want and this idea made Apple a leader
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Apple and Dell 1. Explain how each business differentiates itself. 2. Evaluate the benefits to apple of differentiating itself from its competitors. Apple Inc. and Dell Inc. are both regarded as reputable‚ distinguished businesses. They both provide products and services which are associated with consumer electronics‚ computer software and/or hardware‚ and general‚ personal computing devices. This means that both companies produce products which are sold within the same market. However‚ even though
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it.‚ a manger who wants t Basically‚ a manager who wants to organize hoir or her department must address these issues: 1. Determine what is to be done 2. Assigning tasks 3. Decide how achieve coordination 4. Decide on a span of management 5. Decide how much authority you should designate 6. Draw an organization chart ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE Is the basic framework within which the manager and his subordinates operate. ORGANIZATION CHART The purpose of organization
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Apple Inc. 2010 Apple’s Competitive Advantages Apple was the first company that launched computers for personal use but by 2010 the company viewed itself as mobile device company. The competitive advantages for Apple throughout history have been ease of use‚ industrial design and technical elegance. Apple designed its products from scratch using chips‚ disk drives and monitors. For instance the iMac that came out in august 1998 was available to buy with colorful translucent cases with an eggshell
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BACKGROUND 3 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 3 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY 5 INFOSYS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 6 THE K SHOP 7 PROCESS DATABASE ASSISTANCE 8 PEOPLE KNOWLEDGE MAP 8 CATCH THEM YOUNG INITIATIVE 9 INFOSYS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 9 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND E BUSINESS 10 CONCLUSION 11 REFERENCES 12 INTRODUCTION This assignment is aiming to critically appraise the knowledge and knowledge management process and evaluate the importance of knowledge management in success
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. executive summary 1 2. INTRODUCTION 1 3. Social media 2 4. social dynamic model 2 5. knowledge management 4 6. organization learning 6 7. innovation 7 8. conclusion 8 9. references 9 Executive Summary Social media become one of the most powerful tools for communicate with a group of people. However‚ with a change in technology create WEB2.0. WEB2.0 let internet surfer interact with the writer by sharing their text‚ picture‚ Video back and forth. This report provides
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The two most important factors that made it difficult for Apple to compete in the PC industry were the lack of software availability for the Macintosh operating system and the lack of differentiation of Apple’s products. These two factors are key reasons why Apple’s share of the global PC market still languishes in the 3% range. Macintosh lagged in available applications early and is still paying the price for this today. In the 1990s‚ while the number of applications on PCs exploded‚ the Macintosh
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Knowledge Management "Knowledge management is the set of practices aimed at discovering and harnessing an organization ’s intellectual resources. It ’s about finding‚ unlocking‚ sharing‚ and altogether capitalizing on the most precious resources of an organization: people ’s expertise‚ skills‚ wisdom‚ and relationships. Knowledge managers find these human assets‚ help people collaborate and learn‚ help people generate new ideas‚ and harness those ideas into successful innovations" (Bateman
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