December 29‚ 2010 | Financial Times | | | | | | Case study: Tata | | | The story. Tata is India’s oldest and largest private sector business entity. Founded in 1868‚ the group now consists of more than 100 companies‚ with a turnover of more than $70bn. It has a wide range of interests‚ with companies trading in fields as diverse as steel‚ cars and trucks‚ chemicals‚ IT consultancy‚ retailing and hotels.The Tata group is highly decentralised‚ and member companies have great autonomy
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Mie resonances in dielectric particles can increase the local optical density of states (LDOS) associated with either electric or magnetic transition rates in nearby quantum emitters without ohmic losses. Their rather large quality factors compensate their low field confinement as compared to the plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures for which nonradiative decay channels dominate. We show theoretically that near-infrared quadrupolar magnetic resonances in silicon particles can preferentially
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Apple on their website Apple iTunes. This is a classic example of Cyclic Innovation where one innovation (iTunes) led to another innovation (iPod). IPod further led to the innovation of small sized devices with huge memory space and gave birth to iPod Nano and iTouch. Consequently‚ Apple has followed the customer needs and enhanced their products through technology‚ scientific research and as per market transitions. Knowledge has played a fluidic role which flowed in all parts of product development
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Open-ended questions 1. Do you think a partnership with Product (RED) can improve Gap’s image? Is it a sign that they are making a commitment to corporate social responsibility or do you agree with critics who say their involvement is an attempt to spit-shine the company’s image while continuing to do business as usual? Answers will vary about Product (RED)’s ability to improve Gap’s image as a socially responsible company. Despite critics and bloggers who have decried the partnership with
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other factors have dissuaded consumers from availing loans and led to further problems in credit lending. Oil Prices Increasing oil prices have deterred many lower middle class families from buying two wheelers. Launch of Low Priced Cars like Tata Nano Introduction of low priced cars will directly affect the market. The family segment would want to gradually move from two wheelers to four wheelers. The major impact of this phenomenon would be experienced in the 100-125 cc two wheelers whereas the
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Q2: What are the chief elements of Apple’s strategy? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving? The chief elements that we found when analysing apple case study was performance‚ position in the market and innovation. 1. Performance apple needs the performance of the company to be good as there is no place for under performance in this industry as there is a lot of competition and they can copy the new ideas innovated within the industry easily. As we can see from the
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private sector company. The company produces light commercial vehicles‚ passenger cars‚ commercial vehicles and multi-utility vehicles. The most popular vehicles are Indica‚ Safari‚ Estate‚ Sierra etc. The latest innovation of the Tata Motors is the Nano car which is called the people’s car. This one lakh car has created a revolution in the history of the automobile industry across the world. Ford Motor Company: This company entered the Indian automobile industry by a tie up with Mahindra Motors to
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Market size: USD145 billion Strong demand growth due to rising incomes‚ growing middle class‚ and a young population is likely to propel India among the world’s top five auto-producers by 2015 Growth in export demand is also set to accelerate Tata Nano and the upcoming Pixel have opened up the potentially large ultra low cost car segment Innovation is likely to intensify among engine technology and alternative fuels • • Advantage India Rising investments • Policy support • India
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Apple is now almost the most valuable company in the world due in large to the organizations ability to keep innovating. Year after year‚ Apple keeps coming out with revolutionary and beautiful products such as the iPhone and the iPad and the iPod Nano and the list goes on and on. Yet‚ Apple seems to stick to a very strict hierarchical organization structure filled with top secret research and projects where one employee has no idea what another one is doing. However‚ If looked closely‚ one will
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics‚ computer software‚ and personal computers. Apple‚ one of the famous digital entertainment brands .If the history had slightly different‚ then the computer on our desk will become Apple rather that an anonymous box running Window. The founders were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976 in California’s Santa Clara Valley. Last time‚ computer were mathematical‚ complicated and arcane‚ but nowadays‚ Apple
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