Case Study- Research in Motion (RIM) “Leading the Way the World Communicates” “It is the partnership and teamwork that underpinned the company and transformed the world!” The blackberry has challenged a number of very basic concepts in work and life. It eliminates distance and time and challenges the boundaries between work and home. It has enabled us to do things that would have been impossible 10 years ago. As a company itself RIM breaks the status quo by encouraging teamwork‚ empowering
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CASE: Research in Motion (RIM) Introduction Research In Motion (RIM) is the company behind BlackBerry‚ one of the best-selling smartphone brands in the US. RIM first went public in 1997 and introduced BlackBerry as a paging device that allowed user to read emails. Soon‚ BlackBerry evolved into a full blown smartphone: a call‚ text‚ email capable organizer. It first gained ground in the business community and government‚ with its high-se curity and essential business features. BlackBerry was
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DeVry University Keller Graduate School of Management Research in Motion (RIM) By Gbolade O. Soneyin gsoneyin@my.keller.edu (770) 598-5006 NETW-583-18552 Strategic Management of Technology Professor John Lambrou Friday‚ January 24‚ 2015 Abstract BlackBerry Limited‚ formerly known as Research in Motion (RIM)‚ was a key player in the smartphone market. Created by two friends in 1984‚ it grew to become one of the leading manufacturers of applications and hardware for the mobile phone industry
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Research in Motion: The Mobile OS Platform War; and Netflix The company you work for has just woken up‚ smelled the coffee‚ and realized the potential impact of disruptive innovation on its strategy and its ultimate survival. In particular‚ your company wishes to avoid Research in Motion (RIM)’s fate in the smartphone devices and mobile operating software systems markets. As part of your company’s reassessment of its current situation‚ you have been tasked with providing an overview and summary analysis
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Managing Growth and Transitions Introduction 1990s saw various changes in the organizational design philosophy‚ work structuring and management. Increasing customer- centric environment is the primary reason for such change. Therefore‚ it has become necessary for the organizations to become flexible to be able to respond to the competitive and market changes. An organization faces various changes during its lifetime. The problem with a change is not the change‚ but the transitions involved with
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JetBlue Managing Growth JetBlue Case JetBlue’s main strategy is to be a low cost carrier (LCC) and use differentiation as a competitive advantage. The main problem that concerns this case is that JetBlue has the need for slower capacity growth but the exact size of the cuts from each of the airlines’ two aircrafts was far from obvious. The contents of this case analysis will show how they managed to get to this point through the use of business strategy tools. Also I will give some recommendations
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Managing Growth Assignment FIN/571 Kent Kelly February 16‚ 2015 Suzanne Elliot During the past six weeks‚ this class has provided tools to help analyze financial statements for Sunflower Nutraceuticals with accuracy in order to make a precise educated decision in the working capital simulation. The following decisions were made as each phase and how they influenced the final outcome and the impact on SNC’s working capital and access to financing. Sunflower Nutraceuticals (SNC) is private
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QUESTION: Discuss the expansion and growth strategies: joint venture‚ acquisition‚ merger‚ hostile takeover‚ leverage buy outs. Give examples of each in the discussion. ANSWERS AND DISCUSSION: All successful small business startups eventually face the issue of handling business expansion or growth. Business expansion is a stage of a company’s life that is fraught with both opportunities often fortunes and for perils. it a owners On the one hand‚ business in In growth carries with corresponding and
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Introduction to Business Research in Motion Ltd. Strategy Analysis Executive Summary According to their website‚ "Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (TSX: RIM‚ NASDAQ: RIMM) is a Canadian wireless and telecommunication equipment company. It is headquartered in Ontario‚ Canada and employs more than 17‚000 people. It is famous as the production of the tablet and BlackBerry smartphone." (Research In Motion Ltd.‚ 2012) With the increasing competition in the telecommunication industry
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Research in Motion Porter’s Five Force Porter’s Five Force Model There are some different approaches available when measuring the profitability in a market‚ or industry. I choose to use the model by Michael E. Porter‚ where the profitability potential of an industry‚ described as the long run return on investment‚ is reliant on the degree of competition in the selected industry. The five forces that Porter mentions are; threat of entry‚ supplier power‚ buyer power‚ threat of substitutes and industry
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