Research in Motion: Managing Explosive Growth Research in Motion was founded in 1984 by Mike Lazaridis and was a world leader in the mobile communications market and manufactures products such as the BlackBerry. Mobile wireless communication involves the transmission of signals using radio fequencies between wireless networks and mobile access devices. One of the main economic characteristics of the industry is the high growth potential that exists. This growth potential is exemplified by RIM expecting
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RESEARCH IN MOTION MANAGING EXPLOSIVE GROWTH In the January of 2008‚ Research in Motion (RIM) is standing at the strategic juncture where important decisions need to be taken regarding global expansions. The biggest strategic issue it faces is to carry over yesteryears’ growth to next level through sustainable innovation at global level. Although its R&D expenditure has grown 6 times in the last four years‚ the ratio of R&D expenditure to sales has been halved. This ratio shows RIM is
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------------------------------------------------- Research In Motion: Managing Explosive Growth Case Facts Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) * RIM was a world leader in the mobile communications market. RIM designed‚ manufactured‚ and marketed the very popular line of BlackBerry products that had recently reached 14 million subscribers worldwide and had just over $6 billion in revenue. * RIM generated revenue through the “complete BlackBerry wireless solution‚” which included wireless device
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Case Study- Research in Motion (RIM) “Leading the Way the World Communicates” “It is the partnership and teamwork that underpinned the company and transformed the world!” The blackberry has challenged a number of very basic concepts in work and life. It eliminates distance and time and challenges the boundaries between work and home. It has enabled us to do things that would have been impossible 10 years ago. As a company itself RIM breaks the status quo by encouraging teamwork‚ empowering
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Managing Growth and Transitions Introduction 1990s saw various changes in the organizational design philosophy‚ work structuring and management. Increasing customer- centric environment is the primary reason for such change. Therefore‚ it has become necessary for the organizations to become flexible to be able to respond to the competitive and market changes. An organization faces various changes during its lifetime. The problem with a change is not the change‚ but the transitions involved with
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Kentucky fried Chicken (KFC) has achieved another milestone in delivery. The explosive growth in Asian region most particularly in their current trends in China that KFC fried chicken‚ burger and fries is gaining its way to superstardom. In China‚ Yum! Brands is opening a KFC store every day. But this is not the KFC you know in America. A recent case study written by professor David Bell and Agribusiness Program director Mary Shelman reveals how the chicken giant adapted its famous fast-food formula
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Working Capital Simulation: Managing Growth Assignment Gwen Pritchard FIN/571 – Corporate Finance July 28‚ 2015 Elmer Lewis Capital Simulation: Managing Growth Assignment In the University of Phoenix (2013) simulation‚ Harvard Business School set up a small business Sunflower Nutraceuticals (SNC) to assist with managing growth through capital budgeting. Capital budgeting involves short and long-term financial decisions. Financing decisions establishes how a business will raise money to pay their
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Managing Growth Susan Vasquez April 27‚ 2014 FIN 571 Troy Mahone Sunflower Nutraceuticals (SNC) operates on a very tight cash flow. The past has not been had resources to stay above the water. SNC has been looking at some new projects and for the past nine years the projects and their impact on SNC’s financial impact has been tracked. In the first phase of these new projects two were applied to SNC. Acquiring a New Customer Atlantic Wellness was acquired as a new customer
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the poker table of the casino of world mobile technology. The loyal customers of the company waited for more than two years to witness the launch of a revolutionary operating system and new range of mobile phones. Blackberry (formerly known as Research in Motion) has seen itself go from top to bottom in the smartphone market. It decided to refine its products and present the best of the best in front of the world after a long break‚ instead of coming out with latest technology and bouncing back in
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Explosives A chemical explosive is a compound or a mixture of compounds susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction causing a quick physical outburst of gases or heat radiation. The first explosives were created by the Chinese in the 11th century. These were mixtures of nitrate salts‚ sulfur and charcoal‚ now known as black powder. Gunpowder which is a low explosive‚ exhibits deflagration‚ or rapid burning‚ rather than detonation‚ the reaction exhibited by high explosives. While‚ perhaps counterintuitively
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