Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington‚ that develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ supports and sells computer software‚ consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems‚ Microsoft Office office-suite and Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4‚ 1975. Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker
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Economic Journal‚ Vol. 75 No. 299‚ pp Bloemer‚ J. and De Ruyter‚ K. (1999)‚ “Customer loyalty in high and low involvement service settings: the moderating impact of positive emotions”‚ Journal of Marketing Management‚ Bolton‚ R. (1998)‚ “A dynamic model of the duration of the customers’ relationship with a continuous service provider: the role of satisfaction”‚ Marketing Science‚ Vol Bowman‚ D. and Narayandas‚ D. (2001)‚ “Managing customer-initiated contacts with manufacturers: the impact on share
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7.Explain the difference between search‚ experience and credence qualities giving suitable examples. Discuss their implications for services marketers. SEARCH -is the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone try to locate or discover‚ or try to establish the existence of; In the marketing concept‚ we conduct consumer research -to determine consumer needs / wants. -then to try to satisfy the consumer with a product or service. -then create a sense
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Bibliography: Baker J.M et al‚ (2003)‚ The Marketing Book 5th Ed.‚ Butterworth-Heinemann‚ Oxford. Dibb S. et al.‚ (2006)‚ Marketing‚ Houghton Maffun‚ Boston. Hoang P.‚ (2007)‚ Business and Management‚ IBID Press‚ Victoria. Kotler P. & Armstrong G.‚(2009)‚ Principles of Marketing 13th Edn‚ Prentice Hall‚ New Jersey. Lovelock C. & Wright L.‚(2001)‚ Principles of Service Marketing and Management 2nd Ed.‚ Prentice Hall‚ New
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ability to attract‚ motivate and retain superior people. In attracting employees Microsoft mainly targeted the stars. Stars are the core employees that can add value to the organization through their knowledge‚ skills and abilities (Boselie‚ 2010). At Microsoft there has been a hands on mentality made for ambitious people. Lepak and Snell (2007) built a theory about different employees and its HR strategies. Microsoft has an internalized and relational focus with its employees. Strategic value of
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with Microsoft in 1998[1]; it later developed the iPAQ‚ one of the earliest PDA for Compaq in 2000. HTC’s close tie with Microsoft led them to develop XDA[2] in 2002‚ first ever smartphone operated on Windows. The company remained true to ODM principles when it produced smartphones by efficiently catering for carriers’ specifications and requests. HTC’s ODM smartphones continued to generate profit margin as high as 20% compared to industry average of 5%[3]. According to Harvard Business Review
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The business partnering model and its impact on both the HR function and HR practice Since the concept of the business partnering model was introduced by Ulrich in 1997‚ the composition of the HR function has dramatically changed. As Goodge (2005) identified‚ “partnering is fundamentally changing almost every HR function‚ every HR job‚ and every HR career” (Pg. 32). Ulrich argued that HR needed to deliver on both a strategic and administrative level and identified four key roles through which organisations
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Home assignment Case study: Business models-Aldi Q: Description of the business model of Aldi by using the business model canvas Usually the first thing coming on our minds when the word model is mentioned are models of real objects in engineering‚ architecture and etc. But the point with the business model is to gain understanding of the ``big picture``. The business model canvas designed by Dr. Alexander Osterwalder provides you with this knowledge and also with visualizing the
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Summary of PPT Slides Introduction (PPT 2‚ 3‚ 4) Think Pizza‚ Choose Domino’s! Domino’s pizza is a passionate team in pursuit of becoming The Unrivalled No.1 Pizza Company in Malaysia. Here is the video about the Domino’s Pizza. The title of the video is Domino’s Pizza Turnaround. After the video‚ here is the background of Domino’s Pizza. Domino’s started with one store‚ which is called "DomiNick’s“. It bought by brothers‚ Tom and James Monaghan. By 1989‚ Domino’s had 5‚000 stores in operation
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measurement of financial assets base on two categories: the objective of the entity’s business model for managing the financial assets; and the characteristics of the contractual cash flow. Under AASB 9‚ the entity’s business model for managing the financial assets is a new accounting concept‚ which applying to classify the financial instruments. The evaluation of this model is based on how key personnel actually business‚ rather than the intents of management for specific financial assets. It means
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