realize my dream by joining Olympic Cards Private Limited as a procurement engineer. After a year of experience I joined a top electronic manufacturing company (Foxconn International Holdings) in order to attain global experience. The company trained me in global procurement and appointed me as a team leader for the procurement team at Foxconn India Private Limited which I consider as one of the biggest achievement so far in my life. Early in my life‚ at the high school level‚ I learnt the value
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Strategic Management Applying and critically evaluating three of the following analytical processes with respect to the three mobile phone manufacturers‚ Microsoft Nokia‚ Samsung and Apple. Your analysis can be applied to one‚ two or a combination of all three organisations. You are required to select and evaluate any three from the following: Yip’s Drivers of Internationalisation‚ Johnson’s Culture Web‚ Porter’s Diamond‚ Bowman’s Strategy Clock‚ Porter’s Generic Strategies and McKinsey’s 7-S Framework
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Background Information Apple computers was established on April 1‚ 1976 by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne and incorporated on January 3‚ 1997. The first Apple Computer was put together by Steve Wozniak and sold for $500.00. The computer‚ called Apple I‚ went on sale in July of 1976 and consisted of a circuit board‚ keyboards and screens. While Wozniak built the computers himself‚ both he and Jobs and sold them to a computer store‚ the Byte Shop‚ in Mountain View California. Most people
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Manager of Danshui plant number 2‚ Wentao Chen‚ has to form viable strategies and decisions without losing much time to catch up with their production schedule to meet Apple’s requirements. A few potential strategies that hopefully will help speed up the plant’s production of Apple’s new iPhone 4 will be discussed below. A strategy that Chen can consider is to train his workers to full knowledge regarding the assembly of the new iPhone 4. Before Danshui accepted the manufacturing contract with Apple
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References: Markoff‚ J. 2006. ‘Apple finds no forced labour at iPod factory in south China’‚ The New York Times pg. C.3 http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/19/the-fate-of-a-generation-of-workers-foxconn-undercover-fully-tr/
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A budget is an estimated financial plan which includes a list of planned incomes and expenses in the future. As such‚ budgeting is the process to manage these incomes through responsible spending by calculating all planned expenses and allocating funds to pay these expenses. This is especially important for businesses as it help managers determine the amount of money they have and how they use it to come up with a suitable plan to achieve the company’s financial goals. Budgeting is an important
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Corporate Social Responsibility – Seminar Work Apple Inc. Current company position including market size/share 90% of the market is controlled by the top 10 manufacturers‚ Apple being the most profitable. During the fourth quarter of 2012‚ Apple took 70% of all profits generated by the smartphone market while Samsung trailed at a distant second with 25%. Q2 2014 – Apple (iOS) controls 11.9% of current smartphone market share whilst Samsung dominates 25.2%‚ however Apple are actually more profitable
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Dollars and Sense. Fleming‚ Ryan. “Microsoft Accused of Using Sweatshop Labor.” Digital Trends. 22‚ 2010 Kristof‚ Nicholas A. “Where Sweatshops are a Dream.” New York Times. Jan. 14‚ 2009. 21 Sept Ojo‚ Bolaji‚ and Charlie Barnhart. "Fallout from the Foxconn suicides." Electronic Engineering Times 1583 (2010): 4 Workers Rights Consortium. Mission. 23 Sept. 2010. <http://www.workersrights.org/about/>.
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Apple is a global giant whose success has been built on outsourcing to a range of other organisations located across the world. How can different organizational theory perspectives assist us in acquiring different understanding of Apple‚ its organizational network and influence? In this essay you must use at least two perspectives to analyze Apple. Introduction In this revolutionised world‚ changes occur rapidly‚ be it in an organized or disorganized way (Henry Veltmeyer 2008). Organisations are
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Exploitation of Workers: Causes and Solutions In 2010‚ Foxconn became more famous not for its products but for the series of suicides among its workers in China. At least 14 people died‚ most of whom were adolescents coming from rural areas‚ trying to make more money in order to have a better life. However‚ the exploitation broke their dreams. Exploitation of workers occurs all over the world‚ especially in recent years‚ with lots of workers from less developed areas to the relatively developed
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