Competitive Strategies Student Name Professor Name BUS 508 Contemporary Business Date Differences of Apple and Microsoft corporate culture Scully (2011) gave a bird ’s eye view of Apple and Microsoft corporate culture. He said "In Steve ’s world‚ ’No compromises ’. ’ In Bill ’s world‚ ’Hey‚ compromise is alright. We ’ll get it right the third time. We just want to have a land grab ’." According to Scully‚ the two have entirely different approaches‚ both very‚ very successful. But in
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Case study: Apple iPhones - Not "Made in America" 1. What is meant by the globalization of human capital? Is this inevitable as firms increase their global operations? The globalization of human capital refers to the fact that employees are now spread out across the world by their employers. This including‚ the companies‚ employed‚ unemployed‚ stockholders‚ consumers‚ contractors‚ supply chain‚ firms and economies. Companies branch out because labor costs are cheaper and productivity is faster
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Financial objectives: • Constant product innovation (at least two upgrades and one new product launch) to prolong the product lifecycle which will help in maintaining and growing the market share. Current product portfolio (April 2012 sales) is I phone:60%‚ I Pad:20%‚ I pod: 13%‚ Mac 7% • Focus at achieving key performance index which are aligned with the investor’s expectations: o Earnings Per Share = 50 o Return on Equity= 45% o Credit Rating: A++ (Superior grade) o Generate and maintain
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1. Four Contextual Fators Apple have shown an ample example that they have implemented the four contextual factors in the organization which then lead to their organization successfulness. i. Culture – Steve Jobs‚ the founder of the organization have a clear vision and yet simple that he wants the whole organization to know.“Bringing the best personal computing‚ mobile communication‚ and portable digital music and video experience to consumers‚ students‚ educators‚ businesses‚ and government
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Questions: What do you think was the main reason for Ipone’s success in America? ➢ Innovations ➢ Apple retail stores ➢ Emphasis on design ➢ Digital music player’s success ➢ Successful marketing effort - meet the expectation - mystique ➢ Good service plan (unlimited data with direct internet aceess‚ visual voicemail and a host of other goodies) 4Ps: Product: Fashionable‚ new advantages. Promotion: Tv campaign Price： Consumer psychology Place With tough competition from
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In this book‚ Steven Johnson is talking about the control that mass-media is having on people. Everything moves around mass-media‚ internet‚ games and all that includes this industry‚ taking over the idea of „brainwashing”. First of all‚ he’s describing his favorite game from his childhood‚ that his dad bought him when he was nine. The game was called „ American Professional Baseball Assosiation” (APBA)‚ it was a baseball simulation. A company in Lancaster‚ Pennsylvania‚ had analyzed
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8 Best Vintage Synth Television Commercials (897 Words) Back in the early days of synthesizers it still took some convincing for people to invest in these newfangled instruments. Luckily‚ there were plenty of advertising folks who believed that they knew just how to entice consumers with flashy commercials. Thanks to YouTube‚ many of these commercials are still available and make for facinating viewing. Here are just some of the best vintage synth television commercials designed to make you covet
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Death the Motivator of Life Steve Jobs was the CEO of the Apple computer and of Pixar animation studios. When Jobs was offered to give a speech for graduates of Stanford University in 2005. During this speech he stated something very important. Steve Jobs argued that death is the best motivator and I completely agree because if life was eternal we would not strive for greatness. There are also several other people who agree with what Jobs claims of the motivation of life such as Roger Ebert. Roger
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Film director and producer‚ Ridley Scott‚ in his Apple advertisement‚ “1984‚” revives George Orwell’s dystopia to introduce Apple’s new product‚ Macintosh‚ as an icon of technological freedom. Scott’s purpose is to persuade the audience that Apple’s new product symbolizes a revolution in the technology industry as it would individualize technology from IBM’s industry. He adopts a revolutionary tone in order to appeal to individualistic characteristics in the public or future buyers. Scott’s initiates
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Elon Musk‚ known for many accomplishments‚ Tesla and PayPal to name his biggest achievements. If he keeps going down the path he is‚ he’s going to be the first trillionaire ever. However success doesn’t come without hard work. As Elon Musk was a young boy he wasn’t like the others. At 10 years old‚ Musk was very fascinated with computers‚ and with the Commodore VIC-20 he taught himself to program and 2 years later created a game called Blastar‚ which he sold for 500 dollars. Fast forward to 1995
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