SWOT analysis of Nokia Strengths Nokia world’s largest producer and manufacturer of cell phones as well as has the largest distribution network around the world. It is also known for the Creativity‚ Innovativeness‚ durability & reliability. It has very good financial position‚ higher return on equity (ROE)‚ return on assets (ROA) and net profit margins (NPM) Nokia leads the global cell phone industry Nokia dominates the world cellular industry because it has the Strong R & D facilities
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Executive Summary IBM and Accenture are both huge companies and uses five factor DuPont analysis to achieve a return on equity. IBM has a higher return on equity than Accenture‚ and therefore the management are more efficient in generating shareholder value per dollar invested. However both the companies are performing better than the industry average. IBM does also take lesser number of days to convert cash on hand compared to Accenture and industry average. But‚ Accenture is taking more days
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1. IBM as a product centric organization before its near failure was a bloated organization with 400 000 employees heavily invested in low margin‚ transactional‚ commodity-based businesses. As technology progressed‚ the demand for IBM’s inventions began to diminish. The entire organizational structure was also growing redundant‚ making it more challenging to face off competition from smaller and less diversified competitors. As Louis Gerstner‚ Jr embarked on turning the entire company around‚ there
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Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications‚ driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones‚ devices and solutions for imaging‚ games‚ media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment‚ solutions and services for network operators and corporations. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on four major exchanges. Nokia comprises
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Mission Statement-Suitability for IBM The mission statement of IBM is suitable for the organization‚ and that not only because it sufficiently refers to the features a mission statement must have‚ but also because it expresses a spirit of success‚ teamwork and customer consideration‚ a spirit that only big companies can generate. Mission Statement-Strengths and weaknesses Though much important a mission stetement is‚ it can develop some strengths and weaknesses regarding mostly the customers
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August 13‚ 2007 Nokia’s New Chipset Strategy Let the chips fall where they may ♦ Nokia announced a new chipset strategy including the use of standard 2G chipsets and the licensing of its protocol stack for merchant market chipset suppliers. ♦ Broadcom‚ STMicroelectronics and Infineon are the clear winners (in that order). ♦ To varying degrees all other chipset suppliers are losers while Texas Instruments faces a “two birds in the bush” situation. Signals Flash provides timely information
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innovation paradigm. With whom‚ why and on what does Nokia collaborate on product development? Whom… Alliance‚ Competitors and Non-familiar partner Why… To create a market for a new product and set the standard for that particular technology. To collaborate with a local manufacturer in order to enter the mobile phone and network technology markets in China‚ Brazil and Australia as the local or national authorities or government required Nokia to nationalize their production facilities abroad. To
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Enterprise Introduction Framed by the year 2009‚ the International Business Machines Corporation (hereafter IBM) aims at becoming a ‘globally-integrated enterprise’ and is therefore facing the act of balancing between being deeply connected (in order to provide value for customers and society) and yet above the fray (to avoid divisive controversies). Over its nearly 100 year history‚ IBM moved from international (exporting form the U.S.) to multi-national (with subsidiaries in many countries) to
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TERM PAPER: IBM SUPERCOMPUTER‚ WATSON IBM Supercomputer‚ Watson Watson uses two thousand eight hundred and eighty processor cores to perform its calculations. This is made possible by the use of ninety IBM Power 750 Express servers which contain eight quad core processors. So each server contains thirty two processor cores and there are ninety servers to combine to make the two thousand eight hundred and eighty processor cores that make up Watson’s brain . So what
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Starwood Hotels and Resorts Case Summary Starwood and its competitors Vision and Mission Statement Vision At IBM‚ we strive to lead in the invention‚ development and manufacture of the industry’s most advanced information technologies‚ including computer systems‚ software‚ storage systems and microelectronics. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions‚ services and consulting businesses worldwide. Create experiences that combine
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