CASE ANALYSIS: IBM IN 2009 Analysis Industry: Computer Services Industry Porter’s 5 Forces 1) Risk of entry by potential competitors The risk of entry by potential competitors is relatively low (+). This is due to the newly entrant competitors that need a large market capitalization‚ software materials‚ services and consulting; to gain consumer’s interests. If consumers are able to choose buying their products from a large company that are adequate in the computer hardware‚ services
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Individual business report IBM and APPLE Executive summary The purpose of the report is to demonstrate the various aspects of the marketing theory and practices. The report selects two well known companies IBM and Apple to do this study. The hardware range from IBM like the note book is selected and the Consumer electronic range like e IPod has been taken as the products for our research. The report studies the various aspects like industrial background‚ company background
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How much is Tanto Supply’s 2000 after-tax earnings? c. What was the firm’s average tax rate‚ based on your findings in a? d. What is the firm’s marginal tax rate‚ based on your findings in a? 1-6 Average corporate tax rates. Using the corporate tax rate schedule given in Table 1.4‚ page 29‚ perform the following: a. Calculate the tax liability‚ after-tax earnings‚ and average tax rates for the following levels of corporate earnings before taxes: $10‚000; $80‚000; $300‚000; $1
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About ibm IBM is a global technology and innovation company that stands for progress. With operations in over 170 countries‚ IBMers around the world invent and integrate hardware‚ software and services to help forward-thinking enterprises‚ institutions and people everywhere succeed in building a smarter planet. IBM has been present in India since 1992. The diversity and breadth of the entire IBM portfolio of research‚ consulting‚ solutions‚ services‚ systems and software‚ uniquely distinguishes
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1. The SWOT analysis for IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative is as follows: Strengths: 1. IBM has high quality and efficient employees who satisfy all the customers’ needs and want. 2. IBM is a well-known brand name in the world. Weaknesses: 1. IBM seems to focus only on big companies whereas there are a large number of small and medium companies around the world. 2. They are exploring new products in complex markets which might make changes difficult. Opportunities: 1. Offering new technologies
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There are three main reasons for IBM to come up with “Think”: the first one is that the ThinkPad’s success has created high awareness in the customers’ mind‚ and then without absolutely giving up the old popular brand‚ IBM’s managers abstract a similar but new brand—“Think”‚ which contains the managers’ expectation to continue the success of ThinkPad; the second one is that the original founder of IBM—T. J. Watson—has made “Think” the motto since he established IBM. Therefore‚ deepening its own brand
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implications for related research in areas of accounting and finance‚ Time series behaviour of earnings is crucial for empirical studies (Beaver 1970). Issues regarding Income smoothing‚ the relative forecast ability of alternative income measurements‚ and interim reporting‚ were discussed by Beaver (1970: pp. 62). These studies share mutual reliance upon a knowledge of the process creating accounting earnings‚ despite representing a comprehensive spectrum of predictive contexts (Beaver 1970). When
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MKG-300 Module 3 Nikon: Earning Loyalty the Hard Way Ken Wright Colorado State University Global Campus In 1985 the F2 camera was Nikon Corporation’s flagship model. Quite basic in design and function‚ yet perfectly designed and somehow exuded a sense of professional legitimacy when it hang from my neck. Though my feeling of legitimacy was premature‚ my desire to live up to a professional standard as profoundly important to Nikon‚ as it was to me. In the fall of 1985 I was issued an F2 and three
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Week 2 - DQ1 For a time‚ people would joke that IBM was an acronym for ‘Inferior But Marketable’. The thinking behind this was that IBM produced inferior products‚ but did a better job of marketing them than competitor companies that produced superior IT products. What was IBM doing from a competitive capabilities perspective? Consider factors such as brand and core competencies in your answer. Which of these factors may have played a role in earning the company its nickname mentioned above? Please
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IBM and their workforce diversity program. 1. IBM is a pioneer in diversity programs. How does it diversity its employees (the criteria). Discuss those (the criteria) in brief. Answer: IBM considered by many to be the leading organization in the field which manages a strong workforce diversity. IBM diversified their workforce in these criteria’s: A. Gender B. Physical Ability C. Age D. Ethnicity Discussion: A. IBM diversified their workforce by advancing women’s which represents ”Gender”
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