JIMMA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS COLLEGE MBA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MBA 641) ASSIGNMENT ON IPAD AS DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY SUBMITTED TO: YOSEPH TILAHUN SUBMITTED BY: AKLILU GUULAY GHIDAY April 7‚ 2014 CASE STUDY QUESTIONS Evaluate the impact the ipad using Porter’s competitive forces model? In Porter’s competitive forces model‚ the strategic position of the firm and its strategies are determined not only by competition with its traditional direct competitors but also
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Due to competition‚ companies are driven by innovation imperatives. 2. One of these is product change which is change in an organization’s product or service outputs according to Daft (2008). This is a coping mechanism to changes in markets‚ technology and competition. Example of such product change is with Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Bloomberg Business Week (2014a) reported that Coca-Cola planned to remove brominated vegetable oil (BVO) from all its U.S. drinks by the end of 2014‚ due to health concerns
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Through all the positive up lifting possibilities of the internet‚ some disruptive practices could be found. These will all be viewed in more detail in these following sections. Contents How to use the internet to raise money? 2 On a personal level the internet can be used for making cash quickly: 2 What types of businesses could benefit from trading on the internet? 3 Some types of internet business are: 3 Disruptive or non-traditional ways to use the internet 5 Conclusion 6 Bibliography
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reaction (Enacting) 5 2.3) Critical analysis (Explaining) 6 3) Lack of communication and the cultural change: 6 2.1) Change challenge (Diagnosing) 6 2.2) Kodak’s reaction (Enacting) 7 2.3) Critical analysis (Explaining) 9 4) Digital technology and its disruption of the film business 9 2.1) Change challenge (Diagnosing) 9 2.2) Kodak’s reaction (Enacting) 10 2.3) Critical analysis (Explaining) 11 5) Conclusion: 12 6) References: 14 Books: 14 Articles: 14 Internet sites:
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part of the virtual drugstore industry. Specifically‚ the organizational structure‚ fundamental design of the autonomous innovation‚ and strategic positioning of CVS.com were considered in evaluating the drug store’s ability to react to the disruptive technology. This paper serves to evaluate the effective initiatives‚ problems‚ and possible solutions to the considerations outlined above. As a result of this analysis‚ one can deduce that acquiring the web company Soma.com‚ instead of creating its
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Growth and Innovation Weekend 1 Growth Imperative Gross Sales - $100 Desk John gets commission - $20 Net Sales - $80 All anyone cares about in growth is NET – Don’t site gross sales (shark tank! Hates this ) * Evidence that once a company’s core business has matured‚ new platforms are hard to come by * Roughly 1-in-10 companies are able to sustain growth for shareholder value * Attempt to Growth causes corporation to crash * Equity markets demand that companies grow but
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transformation and has published extensively in leading academic and business journals. is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the architect of and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation. “Businesses worldwide have been guided and in uenced by e Innovator’s Dilemma and e Innovator’s Solution. Now e Innovator’s DNA shows where it all starts. is book gives you the fundamental building blocks for becoming more innovative
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1. After reading the articles and the case‚ what does "disruptive technology" mean to you? What are the principles behind it? How can you determine whether a technology is disruptive or not? Disruptive technology is an innovative technology providing a new set of attributes‚ which may not be valued and accepted by the mainstream customers but can make a faster performance improvement than the existing mainstream technologies. In doing so‚ it has the capability of creating its own market with a
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Kittyhawk This paper aims to analyze the Hewlett Packard- Kittyhawk by taking into account “Disruptive Technologies” and “Value Network” by Christensen. In 1992‚ Hewlett Packard (HP) decided to produce a 1.3-inch disk drive-the Kittyhawk Microdrive‚ in hope to establish itself as a leader in a disk drive market. This smallest drive in the world will represent a disruptive innovation and a breakthrough in technology. A special team was dedicated to developing Kittyhawk and high hopes were laid for its
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Disruptive and sustaining technologies – the difference Disruptive technologies are technological innovations which‚ as their name suggests‚ disrupt the status quo. They may displace existing technology‚ or introduce an entirely novel concept to society. The digital camera and the telephone are two examples of disruptive technologies. Developing and marketing such technologies requires skill and some financial backings‚ as consumers may initially be wary of such technologies before adopting them
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