1. Describe Alexander the Great using Functions of Management. Planning Alexander knew a thing or two about setting objectives and what needs to be done to achieve it. He knew how to strategize. This was best shown when they were planning the attack to kill Darius. Leading The movie presented Alexander’s excellent leadership skills. He trusted his subordinates by delegating the jobs to them. He communicated with his army‚ if possible‚ one by one‚ to show his soldiers how he values them‚ to encourage
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LGT3105 Operations Management - Tutorial 5: Service Processes 1. The wheat harvesting season is short. Most farmers deliver their truckloads of wheat to a central storage bin and return back to the fields. The central storage bin is owned cooperatively by the farmers and they have assigned a waiting cost of $18 per hour for each truck and driver. The storage bin operates 16 hours per day and 7 days a week. It is capable of unloading an average of 35 trucks per hour. Full truckloads arrive at
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Strategic Posture 1. The company’s strategic posture is clearly stated‚ and is also back up by its strong performance. 2. Mission • Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing and music experience to its customers. The company has a unique ability to design and development its own hardware and software. 3. Objectives • Today‚ Apple is committed to lead the industry with its award-winning computers‚ OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. The company’s
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Marketing mix - Product Agenda ✦ Product ✦ Service ✦ Product life cycle ✦ Experience Aim: transform strategic decisions already take into a sustainable and attracted commercial offer. From a managerial point the key question is: how can we transform our decision‚ our value proposition into something that can be bought by the market? We have to consider that there are several models that have been suggested over time to depict from a managerial view point what marketing mix meansthey clarify the
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| Directional policy matrices | | | | Space | | | | PIMS | | Be able to formulate a new strategyLO2 | 2.1. Produce an organisational audit for a given organisationChapter 3 | Benchmarking | | | | Swot analysis | | | | Product positions | | | | Value-chain analysis | | | | Demographic influences | | | | Scenario planning | | | | Synergy culture and values. | | | 2.2. Carry out an environmental audit for a given organisationChapter 2 | PESTEL
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External Factor Analysis for Apple Inc Apple is an American organization that specializes in the conception and manufacturing of consumer electronics as well as connected software products (Breillatt 45). It operates over 300 stores in the world. The company has an employee base of about 50‚ 000.In order to understand and analyze the external environment and to know the current state of affairs and what the future holds‚ the PEST analysis method is used in this paper. Societal Environment Political
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customers to purchase from the first day of its launch and 1.4 million units within 90 days. Apple started off iphone with a high price to cover marketing and development costs as well as to create the perception of the iphone being worth $599. Suddenly Company reduced it to $399. It is one of the parts of their excellent marketing strategy which gives customers the feeling of getting a great deal. Apple also has an effective supply power‚ for them iphone is nothing more than summing up different
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Financial Analysis Project APPLE INC. Rev 1.1 A Financial Analysis Project By Josie Chavez Submitted to Kendra Huff‚ Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance College of Business Administration Texas A&M University-Kingsville BUSINESS FINANCE 3338 Spring 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES iii LIST OF FIGURES v 1. CORPORATE OVERVIEW 1 1.1 Overview of Industry 1 1.2 Overview of Corporation 2 1.2.1 Product/Service Description 4 1.2
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people around us use apple’s products. For example there is an iPhone‚ iPod‚ iPad‚ and iMac. The change of the Apple’s management strategy has a big impact on our daily life‚ so we conducted research on actual management situation. Apple co. sells both hardware and software products and join the personal computer‚ mobile‚ and music business. Apple co. recorded the highest market capitalization of about $660millions ever in the U.S market. Above the information‚ Apple co. is a success corporation
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Logos: Apple A very common sight for many people: The Apple logo. In the diagram on the separate sheet‚ we see how they used Fibonacci to make an aesthetically pleasing picture. The logo looks nice because of its rounded‚ almost spherical shape. Some would argue that it is perfect whereas others find it boring. Over the years the colours have changed from the rainbow stripes of 1976 to the monochrome of 1998. It had changed to be monochrome to look more professional as opposed to childish. It
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