STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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Strategic Management Model Applied Study on Starbucks Prepared by Spring 2013 Class Supervised by: Dr. Ola Elgeuoshy Spring 2013 Table of Contents Introduction Module (1): Environmental Scanning Ch1: External Environment Analysis Ch2: Internal Environment Analysis Module(2): Strategy Formulation Module(3): Strategy Implementation Module(4): Control & evaluation Summary & Conclusion References Introduction Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee company
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Apple Inc criticized for double-standard warranties Updated: 2013-03-16 10:45 (Xinhua) | | | | | |
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Is cultural diversity proving to be compatible with social unity? Britain has changed quite significantly over the past few decades in terms of cultural diversity. Whereas Britain was largely white not so long ago‚ the number of ethnic minorities has been steadily increasing and this growth does not look likely to stop anytime soon. Demographic experts have‚ infact‚ predicted that by 2050‚ 1 in every 5 British person will belong to an ethnic minority. The question issue I will be discussing in the
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In the past few years Apple and other electronics manufacturers have been in the news for alleged unethical practices carried out by some of their suppliers. The ethical issues were concerning the 2010 suicides in the Chinese Foxconn factories‚ which are the main suppliers for Apple‚ and the IPhone5 strikes that occurred in the beginning of October. All of these events were as a result of the workers’ poor living conditions‚ inadequate health care benefits and a load of overtime hours. Apple’s speedy
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Drew Adams Intro to Art (FINE 1001 002) Learning to Look 02/07/2013 Source. iPhone. Apple. 2009 Formal Analysis The product that is advertised in this advertisement is the new iPhone. The composition of this advertisement is only a concept version of the iPhone. It is showing only the back of the iPhone‚ which gives a different perspective of the main product which makes viewers want to learn more. The color palette of this advertisement consists of mostly dark colors with the print
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The World Is An Apple By: Alberto S. Florentino Characters: Gloria - Mario - Pablo ( An improvised home behind a portion of the Intramuros walls.Two wooden boxes flank the doorway. At left is an acacia tree with a wooden bench under it.) (MARIO enters from the street at left. He is in his late twenties‚ shabbily dressed and with hair that seems to have been uncut for weeks. He puts his lunch bag on the bench
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PEST ANALYSIS FOR APPLE INC The PEST analysis is the useful procedure to grasp market growth or decline. So it is a business dimension tools that helps to identify an organisations macro environment. The factors include in PEST analysis are Political factors‚ Economical factors‚ Social influence‚ Technological factors. An organisation cannot control the changes in those factors but any changes effect directly to an organisation. So the organisation should react quickly if any
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could you provide for your firm to follow in order to be more socially responsible? The issues of social responsibility within a technology field usually fall within two areas: environmental and social‚ specifically labor. Somewhere there is a balance between product quotas and corporate social responsibility. Public opinion and clever communication often determines the outcome. In 2005 Apple began a supplier code‚ which stated Apple’s corporate stand on issues like employee workload‚ child labor
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and the Apple No one completely understands the ways of God. Many of us can come up with our own opinions‚ and justify his ways in our own minds‚ just as Milton did in Paradise Lost. Just as Adam and Eve‚ we all are gifted with free will and the responsibility of making important decisions and choices in our life‚ which will determine our future. But we may well ask ourselves today‚ of what use would this free will be to us if we did not know good from evil? When Eve ate the apple in the Garden
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