Case study: Strategic planning at Apple Inc. Comparative Advantage Apple has gained a comparative advantage over its competitors by carefully picking their employees. According to researcher and author Alex Frankel Apple tends to only hire people whom are “passionate about what they were selling”‚ this often meant that they hired enthusiastic Apple product users. In addition‚ Apple’s employees are trained to follow a specific three-step sales process known as position‚ permission‚ and probe
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4. List three SCM metrics Apple should track‚ along with the reasons these metrics will add value to Apple’s business strategy. SCM metrics could include * Back order * Customer order promised cycle time * Customer order actual cycle time * Inventory replenishment cycle time * Inventory turns All of these metrics will add value to Apple by giving them insight into current production and order fulfillment issues. 1.INVENTORY TURN In its eighth annual Supply Chain
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Apple Mini Case SWOT Strength: 1. Strong brand name and customer loyalty. Weakness: 1. Limitation on customer segmentation because Apple has limitation on its price and product varieties. Opportunity: 1. Chinese economy is still booming right even though the economy is kind of slow down right now‚ it still has a lot of room to grow. If Apple could catch the chance‚ for sure it has a lot of business opportunities. 2. Largest population in China so there is a lot of potential customers
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iSlave is used by human rights activists to describe the labor conditions at the Apple ’s manufacturing plants in China. Sadly‚ most of us do not even care where and how these products are made as long as we can enjoy the wonders of technology that Apple can provide us. But there is something more behind these dazzled wonders‚ something that some people have chosen to ignore and some others just really ignore. Whatever the case is the reality is the same‚ a greedy company making a fortune while the real
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INTRODUCTION MEM Company‚ Inc.‚ started up in 1883 by Mark Edward Mayer‚ produces an extensive range of colognes and toiletries. Sales had decreased over the year and MEM is now looking into several options to improve growth. After much extensive analysis‚ our team had decided to drop the option of launching Cambridge due to the stiff competition from Shulton’s Blue Stratos which has a $12 million marketing budget with a fresh slogan‚ ’Unleash the Spirit’‚ which we believe will differentiate Blue
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Case Study: The Fashion Channel 1. Define the segmentation scenarios considered by Dana Wheeler and discuss the pros and cons of each scenario. In the HBS Fashion Channel case‚ Dana Wheeler considered 3 different market segmentation scenarios. Various market research firms had divided viewers into 4 distinct groups: “Fashionistas”‚ “Planners and Shoppers”‚ “Situationalists”‚ and “Basics”. These four groups were comprised of a mix of consumers with a plethora of demographics‚ all with specific
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Apple Case Study Part I: Overview (Ren‚ Xinxin) Introduction Apple Inc. Apple Inc. Apple Inc. APPLICATIONS: 1 MAC 2 iPad 3 iPod 4 iPhone 5 iComputer 6 iTV Mission Statement of Apple Inc. 1. The best personal computing experience to students‚ educators‚ creative professionals and consumers 2. Enhance resources for future generations and for continuous improvements Customer Profile 1.50% of all households across the US and Europe 2.36% of people claim to be regular users of Apple
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Business Concept Innovation In Apple business concept innovation in Apple The business concept innovation of apple will be analyzed by several business models. One of them is the concept of Gary Hamel . He defines the business concept innovation as following: "Business Concept Innovation is the capacity to imagine dramatically different business concepts or dramatically new ways of differentiating exiting business concepts" Business conept innovation changes the basis of competition
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Harvard Case Review and Analysis 1. Jeff Immelt’s strategies for GE were solid in a theoretical sense. The company should have been delivering above-average returns and seen all the positives that he preached about it. The reason this did not happen and they faced some humiliation in 2008 until 2010 were due to GE Capital. Immelt thought that they were diversified enough to survive the economic downturn. However this proved to be wrong. In an interview for BusinessWeek magazine David Magee
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Please divide Apple ’s history into periods and trace the changes in business models that took place over these periods. Apple history is explained in the case history from 1972 – 2006. Apples history is described below‚ reflecting on the changes in Business Model (how the company generated revenue). The Beginning years‚ 1976 – 1985: Apple was founded in 1976 and they built a computer circuit board named the Apple I. Within span of 4 years they went to IPO with the help of Venture capitalist
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