Organizational Analysis: Apple Inc. Part 1 Apple Inc. History/Background: Apple Inc. is an iconic United States technological company based in Cupertino‚ California. Apple is engaged in the development of World changing consumer electronic products such a mobile phones‚ music media devices‚ tablets‚ and personal computers. The company also sells and creates operating system software‚ peripherals and delivery of third-party digital content (iTunes) to consumers. Apple sells its products and
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CEO of Genentech‚ Inc. Tim Cook since 2011‚ $4174992 William V. Campbell‚ $68657 Male‚ 71‚ Chairman of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and Member of Audit & Finance Committee ‚ former CEO and president of Intuit‚ Prior Apple Executive( 80s) Andrea Jung since 2008‚ $73657 Female‚ 53‚ Lead Director and Chairman of Compensation Committee ‚ former CEO of Avon Ronald D. Sugar since 2010‚ $82438 Male‚63‚ Chairman of Audit & Finance Committee ‚ former Chairman and
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between CSR communication‚ identity‚ image and reputation. 31 8.6 Preliminary conclusion 31 9.1 The perfect identity - Aaker’s brand identity planning model 34 9.2 A framework for CSR communication (SKC) 37 10. Apple inc. – The most admired company in the world (LMP) 41 11. Apple and CSR (SKC) 43 11.1 Apple’s current CSR situation 43 12. Apple’s brand identity (LMP) 49 12.1 Apple’s mission statement 49 12.2 Brand-as-product 50 12.3 Brand-as-organisation 52 12.4 Brand-as-person 53 12
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Apple established itself as a successful employer by taking care of its employees and ensuring their proper conduct. The information regarding Apples’ four integrity principles is explained on their company website. These are drafted into code of conduct and all the employees are believed to follow them. As many products are outsourced to low wage countries‚ ensuring that suppliers don’t take undue advantage of the workers in these countries‚ Apple has drafted a supplier’s code of conduct too and
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Describe the industry in which these two companies operate and assess the competitive environment? Both Kohl’s Corp and Dillard’s Inc represent retail industry and operate department stores in USA. The US department store industry includes about 20 companies that operate about 3‚500 stores with combined annual revenue of about $60 billion. The industry is highly concentrated where the top eight companies generate about 95 percent of industry revenue. What current economic factors affect the company’s
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between android devices and iphone devices is one of the most rivalrous and talked about in the mobile market. Both sides could argue for days on which device is better than the other. We are going to go into deep discussion about why androids are superior and why you should choose it over iphone. Androids have the ability to be fully customizable‚ while iphone offers limited customization. Second‚ Apple phones and Android phones have different operating systems‚ iOS (Apple) and OS (Android). Third
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APPLE PESTEL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS Political These refer to government policy such as the degree of intervention in the economy Apple‚ being a Cupertino based company in California‚ is subject to American laws and regulations. These include taxation laws and product manufacturing regulations. Economic * These include interest rates‚ taxation changes‚ economic growth‚ inflation and exchange rates. For example: - higher interest rates may deter investment because it costs more
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Introduction Analytics competitors are define as strategic technique used to evaluate outside competitors. The analysis seeks to identify weaknesses and strengths that a company’s competitors may have‚ and then use that information to improve efforts within the company. An effective analysis will first obtain important information from competitors and then based on this information predict how the competitor will react under certain circumstances (http://www.businessdictionary.com) All these
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Comparing the iPhone and Android Cell phones in this day in age are very popular and all carriers are booming with sales. When it comes down to the big sales‚ most major carriers advertise the latest and most up to date smartphones. What is a smartphone exactly? It is a device that can provide the user to interact through a network of social and personal applications; all with a touch of a button. Almost everyone owns a cell phone and the majority of us own either an iPhone or an Android smartphone
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Product Presentation: iPhone 3G The iPhone is one great device that combines a mobile phone‚ a mulitmeda players‚ and a web browser in one neat package. In fact‚ the iPhone can even do more than tose things as it will be able to give you high quality entertainment that you never imagined possible in a mobile phone. Just over a year alter Apple birthed the first iPhone‚ we now have the long-awaited‚ next-generation of the iPhone‚ the new 3G that has arrived with a midly tweaked design and a
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