Appendix A: Porters 5 forces 35 Appendix B: PESTLE 39 Appendix C: SWOT 41 Appendix D: Trends and Drivers 42 Bibliography 43 Executive Summary This report provides a comprehensive strategic analysis on Research in Motion (RIM) and its Blackberry products‚ and provides strategic recommendations for the firm for its business. The goal of this report was to understand the industry in which RIM is competing and analyze the firm for investment opportunities. The industry in which RIM competes
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best known as the developer of the BlackBerry smartphone. RIM is headquartered in Waterloo‚ Ontario‚ Canada. It was founded by Mike Lazaridis‚ who served as its co-CEO along with Jim Balsillie until January 22‚ 2012 when RIM announced that both have stepped down and the new CEO will be Thorsten Heins. 1.) What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property‚ and how did RIM handle those challenges? BlackBerry users are facing a new wave of disruptions
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Report Student Name: Cy Gabriel Module Code: 6MM006 Module Name: Individual Project Project Title: Comparison of smartphones operating systems such as Apple ’s iOS‚ Google ’s Android OS‚ Microsoft ’s Windows Phone OS‚ and RIM ’s BlackBerry OS. Module Leader Name: D.I. Beardsmore Supervisor Name: Cheong Teck Kee Submission Date: 25TH May 2012 Award Title: Bsc Computing Department: School of Computing and Information Technology Declaration Presented in partial fulfilment
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Meet the Chinese consumer of 2020 - McKinsey Quarterly - Retail & Consumer Goods - Sectors & Regions ian.coleman@newellco.com Log Out Search Home Retail & Consumer Goods Sectors & Regions Added to E-mail Alerts Create RSS Feed Recommend (59) Meet the Chinese consumer of 2020 Evolving economic profiles will continue to be the most important trend shaping the market. Text Size E-mail China’s confident consumers Print What China’s five-year plan means for business Download PDF Link to
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likelihood of a current or former employee becoming CEO of a large company. Top on the list is management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Amazingly‚ if we extrapolate into the future from the current stock of McKinsey alums who are CEOs‚ of every 1‚060 McKinsey employees‚ one will become CEO of a Fortune 1000 company. Company Size (employees) CEOs Produced Odds McKinsey & Co. 17‚000 16 1‚060:1 Baxter International 48‚500 11 4‚410:1 Motorola 60‚000 7 8‚570:1 Intel 82‚500 8
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technology. Copyright John Wiley & Sons Canada 4 OPENING CASE CASE 1.1 Will Blackberry Survive? THE PROBLEM In 2012‚ BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion or RIM) was losing money. The Canadian company laid off thousands of employees in an attempt to reduce costs by as much as $1 billion. After several other wireless products‚ RIM‚ founded in 1985‚ had a highly successful BlackBerry e-mail service in 1999. BlackBerry is no longer an only player. Instead‚ we have seen several competitors constantly
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The First World War was the first ’total war’ - the whole nation had to be mobilised to fight. Men joined the army while women took over their jobs‚ but was this change lasting or a temporary effect of total war? The population at home - the basics People in Britain were affected by six main ways: 1. Recruitment - there was a huge poster campaign to get people to join up‚ and the government had to introduce conscription in 1916. Conscientious objectors could be imprisoned. Women were recruited
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phones use stripped down mobile version of an OS that doesn’t provide as many features and capabilities as more advanced mobile operating systems. These higher end mobile operating systems that we will be focusing on are iOS‚ Android‚ Windows Phone‚ Blackberry‚ and webOS. While there does exist a greater variety of mobile operating systems‚ the following operating systems are the main OS’s that exist in the United States and around the world. What is a mobile operating system? How do you know which mobile
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1.0 Introduction to the Internship Study 1.1 Background of the Study As per the requirement of Bangalore University to submit the internship report during third semester of the MBA program‚ the students need to submit the report conducted in a particular organisation under the university’s prescribed format during the summer holidays after the completion of the second semester examination. The primary reason for this internship is to make the students acquainted with the real world business
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This strengthens RIM’s internal structure through reducing employee turnover and having happy employees who enjoy their jobs and in-turn demonstrate good work ethics. One of RIM’s greatest strengths is the security of information provided by the blackberry. Their smart-phones maintain a high level of security through securing information behind company firewalls and the encryption of information when it is being transferred to other consumers. This allows RIM to capture large organizations that demand
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