ROUTINES AND INNOVATION Copenhagen‚ CBS‚ Denmark‚ June 18 - 20‚ 2007 ENTERING A MATURE INDUSTRY THROUGH INNOVATION: APPLE S IPHONE STRATEGY Joel West San José State University joel.west@sjsu.edu *Michael Mace Rubicon Consulting mike@rubiconconsulting.com Abstract: Innovation competencies are valuable in emergent and high-growth phases of the lifetime of a product or industry segment. For mature industries‚ researchers have emphasized strengths in operations and execution‚ with the implication
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Table of Contents A. Part A: Industry Life Cycle Framework - Critique 3 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Industry Life Cycle Framework 4 2.1 Introduction Phase 4 2.2 Growth Phase 4 2.3 Mature Phase 6 2.4 Decline Phase 7 3.0 Conclusion and My Views – Part A 7 B. Part B: Industry Level Analysis 8 4.0 Introduction 8 5.0 Resource-Based View (RBV) of the American and Japanese Automobile Industry 9 5.1 Mass Production Capabilities - Economies of Scale 9 5.2 Lean Production Capabilities 11 6.0 Conclusion
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Comparative Business Analysis on Smartphones based on Google Android Platform URP Participant Department of Computer Science Viktor Shin Department of Mathematical Science Gerelmaa B. Teaching Assistant Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Jungwoo Lee Advisory Professor Department of Management Science Jay Young Ohm Comparative Business Analysis on Smartphones based on Google Android
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Smartphone Industry Analysis Team 5 University of North Alabama MG 498-I01 Dr. Dennis Balch Team 5: Bradi Reader – Document Manager/Formatting and Editing Bailey Claunch – Industry Overview Kylie Corum – PESTEL Factors Kyle Stephenson – Porter’s Five Forces Matthew Vest – Sector/Strategic Groups Brantley Claunch – Current Issues Table of Contents Industry Overview 4 Smartphone Industry Analysis 4 Key Players 4 Smartphone Market Size 4 Growth Patterns 4 Customers 4 Suppliers 5 Factors Affecting
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Many products and services often pass a life cycle while there are many shapes depending on their industries. They newly emerge in the society‚ start to sell to be widespread‚ become saturated in the market and then gradually get out of date. This sequence of product and service is called the product life cycle. Smartphone also passes such natural path. According to the next web (2011)‚ first smartphone brand was Ericsso’s GS88 in 1997. A touchscreen smartphone‚ which is widespread now‚ was launched
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Industrial Ecology Practices in the Fashion Industry Introduction The industrial revolution in the 1800s brought a paradigm shift to the way humans interacted with the environment. The increased capability of producing and manufacturing on a large scale‚ the rise of multiple industries‚ growing demand and proliferation of hedonistic consumption patterns‚ has created a culture of surplus‚ want and waste. (Falasca-Zamponi‚ 2012) From an environmental point of view‚ this resource hungry trend is
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Mobile Phone Industry Analysis: There are three main categories of mobile phones: simple phones (low-cost devices providing basic function of a phone and address book‚ feature phones (mid-priced phones with multimedia features such as camera or digital music)‚ and smartphones (high-priced gadgets allowing most functions of a PC in your palm). Structural Trends Business strategy only involved either the vertical or horizontal models. In the vertical model‚ the company controlled all aspects
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STAGES OF INDUSTRY LIFE CYCLE A concept relating to the different stages an industry will go through‚ from the first product entry to its eventual decline. There are typically five stages in the industry lifecycle. They are defined as: i. Early Stages Phase - alternative product design and positioning‚ establishing the range and boundaries of the industry itself. ii. Innovation Phase - Product innovation declines‚ process innovation begins and a "dominant design" will arrive. iii. Cost
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In fact‚ three of us are using Apple iPhone (i.e. iphone3G‚ iphone3GS and iphone4) and we are definitely the smartphone users who have clear understanding of the functions and specifications of the current existing products in the smartphone industry. Since all of us have great interest in participating in this project‚ in which we can deeply analyze this current situation of this industry and apply knowledge and theories in making comparison between product competitiveness‚ we hope that we can make
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A Financial Analysis of the Smartphone Industry Maria Thompson Jared Fowler John Froman Michael Collingsworth Emily Barnes Emily Pounders Robert Crittenden The University of North Alabama September 23‚ 2011 A Financial Analysis of the Smartphone Industry The industry of Smartphones is rapidly growing. Through our analysis‚ we have seen companies that have taken advantage of this rapid growth and some that have only experienced moderate growth. Through comparative analysis of financial
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