2010: Appointed new CEO - Stephen Elop - to drive strategic change - February 2011 - Elop issued the famous “burning platform” memo bluntly explaining the serious strategic challenges facing Nokia - Elop outlined results of his strategic review on Feb 11 2011 - making it clear that Nokia had to undergo a substantial programme of change - Elop announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft in March 2011 to jointly develop smartphones using the Windows mobile platform - ditching Nokia’s previous investment
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Thursday‚ 2nd February 2012 Prepared by: • Velisya (551496) • Aktalisa Tifany (548994) • Steffany Ciputri (551288) • Gabriela Tiffany (546561) Executive Summary This essay discuss about how Starbucks utilizes its marketing mix in order to gain market share. Starbucks‚ which has been in the coffeehouse industry for 41 years‚ face higher competition than before. Even so‚ Starbucks is able to not only survive through this‚ but they are able to be “one of the most valuable
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Sony’s Marketing Strategy New Product Development and Brand Sony understood the importance of brand from its inception. The origin of “Sony” shows the global mindset of its founders; who coined the brand name Sony in 1955 because it was easier for Western consumers to pronounce. “Sony” sounded cute‚ like the pet name Sonny‚ but it also meant sonus‚ or “sound‚” in Latin. In 1958‚ the firm adopted this brand name as its corporate name. When Morita went to the United States with a Sony-branded
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Apple Marketing Strategy A. Marketing Strategy 1. Company Presentation The Company was created on April 1st‚ 1976 by two friends‚ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak along with one of the former colleagues of Jobs at Atari‚ Roald Wayne who was supposed to act as an arbiter between the two former students but who left the company after only 2 weeks because of his financial situation and the risks involved in the project. The first computer ever created by the company‚ Apple 1‚ was built in
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As discussed by (Palmer‚ 2012‚ p. 259) the marketing mix is a conceptual framework that identifies the principal decisions made in configuring offerings to meet customer’s needs. It is made up of four coherent elements which include: Product‚ Place‚ Price and Promotion. The newspaper and publishing industry is dominated by 4 major companies (News Australia Holding Pty Limited‚ Fairfax Media Limited‚ Seven West Media Limited and APN News and Media Limited)‚ each owning large sectors of the market
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Introduction. In this assignment I am going to explain the following concepts‚ generic strategies‚ alternative directions and alternative methods. Indeed‚ I would like to support these concepts by referring my work to the automobile sector (as a continuing line provided with the Morgan´s example in class). I am going to use the example of General Motors and Ford‚ they are well known and also provide us a long struggling and interesting history. The first part of my assignment gives a theoretical
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EliteBook 8460w Mobile Workstation HP EliteBook 8570w Mobile Workstation HP EliteBook 8470w Mobile Workstation HP ProBook 4430s Notebook PC HP ProBook 4530s Notebook PC HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation HP ENVY (7) Elite class The HP ENVY series is a line of high performance laptops manufactured and sold by Hewlett-Packard‚ which was launched on October 15‚ 2009 as two models‚ the Envy 13 and the Envy 15. Since then‚ Hewlett-Packard has expanded the series with
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[pic] KFC New Zealand Marketing Strategy [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] Table of Contents Present Market Situation ____________________________________________________________ _____________ pg 3 Macro Environmental Factors ____________________________________________________________ _________ pg 3 Customer Analysis ____________________________________________________________ __________________ pg 4 Competitor Analysis ____________________________________________________________
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A Task 1: Sales strategy 1.1 Ansoff’s strategic growth model • Marketing Penetration Refers to a growth strategy in which the business focuses on selling existing products into existing markets. • Market Development It is the growth strategy in which the business extends their existing products into new markets. • Product Development This growth strategy refers to business that develops new products for existing markets. • Diversification Refers to the growth strategy in which business
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selection‚ I have choose the question five for my assignment this time‚ this question is regarding to two areas‚ one is the market entry strategy and explain why no single strategy can be used in all circumstances; another one is explaining why franchising is popular method of entering markets abroad and describe its characteristic. 2 Market Entry Strategy Why firms go abroad First of all‚ we need to know why firms go abroad and looking for entering foreign countries’ market. In General
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