STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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Explain your company and its business My company is a wellness business. We are into the business as a result of the need for an alternative medicine. We use touch and other therapeutics technique to effect changes in the body for relaxations and healing. What is your company’s strategic intent? The company’s strategic intent is management action plan for competing successfully and operating profitably based on an integrated array of considered choices like action to gain sales and market share
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Chapter 5 Business Level Strategy Successful business model is the product of successful business level strategies. A successful business model can give a company competitive advantage over rivals. To craft a successful business model‚ strategic managers must determine three issues stated below: 1. What to be satisfied-customer’s needs: Customer needs are the wants that can be satisfied by the means of attributes of the products. Customers choose a product based on: A. Product differentiation
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MOTOROLA BUSINESS STRATEGY There are several strategy that Motorola use to gain competitive advantage to enter the market and widening their market opportunity to attract more customer to use their product. 1. Forward Integration strategies Motorola also now has their own website to give various information related to product and services that their offer. Through the creation of the website are causing an e-commerce activity between user and the retailer. The Motorola website also can be choose
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the basis of value added for customers. People will pay the premium over lesser brands for the coca cola product and this may be why they have chosen (from Porters model) a differentiation strategy. This has paid off for them. Their manufacturing and distribution system has been an effective business level strategy. The Coca Cola Company and its bottlers can work together to determine local responsiveness and produce products that best suit the local tastes in that particular geographical area. Amongst
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other things consist‚ such as technology‚ and the producers expectations (p.60). Chapter 4‚ Question 4. Identify five things which could shift a supply curve to the right or left? The five things that can ship a supply curve to the right or the left include; the state of technology‚ the prices of resources‚ the prices of other goods‚ producer expectations‚ and the number of producers in the market (p. 60). Chapter 4‚ question 12. Assume the market for corn is depicted as in the table that appears below:
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MGT4394 Business Policy & Strategy Days 2-3 Mini-Case A Horror Show at the Cinemaplex? Steve Gove‚ Virginia Tech Brett Matherne‚ Loyola University of New Orleans If the motion picture industry’s performance in 2007 were a feature presentation‚ the marquee would read “Massive Box Office: Smashing Records the Sequel!” At $9.63 billion‚ box office revenue set another record in 2007‚ a full 5 percent above the record set in 2006’s.1 An astonishing 1.4 billion tickets were sold in 2007. But beyond the
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Chapter 1: Business Model: is a framework for making money. It is the set of activities which a firm performs‚ how it performs them‚ and when it performs them so as to offer its customers benefits they want and to earn a profit. Components: Positions‚ Resources‚ Costs‚ Industry Factors = Profitability. Determinants of profitability: Industry factors: Competitive Forces: exerted by suppliers (is high – bargaining power over industry firm; extract high prices raising costs; lower quality supply)‚ customers
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1. Describe DaimlerChrysler’s business strategy? Why has the company been so successful? DaimierChrysler studied every step in the vehicle production and sales process‚ starting with the first stage of vehicle design and ending with its service and repair. The company becomes more successful because it has its own System through which they build a series of information that automate and streamline all of its transaction‚ queries‚ support‚ service and maintenance with suppliers around
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University Hospital Memo To: Pat Rowe‚ Vice President From: Yilin Zhang CC: Jon M. Werner Date: 5-Nov-13 Re: Technology Training Recommendations With the development of medical science and medical technology‚ high-tech medical devices‚ which come out constantly‚ help caregivers stay informed about new equipment and principles of work performance‚ safe use of new equipment‚ and other issues that are increasingly prominent. Meanwhile‚ the poor attitude of staff during training is also a big
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