Social Influence Modeling on Smartphone Usage Masaji Katagiri1‚2 and Minoru Etoh1‚3 1 R&D Center‚ NTT DOCOMO‚ Inc. Yokosuka‚ Kanagawa‚ 239-8536 Japan katagirim@nttdocomo.co.jp‚ etoh@ieee.org Graduate School of Information Science and Technologies‚ Osaka University Suita‚ Osaka‚ 565-0871 Japan 3 Cybermedia Center‚ Osaka University Toyonaka‚ Osaka‚ 560-0043 Japan 2 Abstract. This paper presents a probabilistic influence model for smartphone usage; it applies a latent group model to social influence
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Management Planning 168 CHAPTER 20 numbers and categories of suitable employees to undertake the task of producing the organisation’s goods or services to the standards expected by the end-users. Even organisations that rarely plan far ahead usually have to make some assessment of their present employee situation‚ so as to ensure that an appropriate range of skills is available for all the mainstream activities of the organisation. This chapter assumes that a systematic and planned view of
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* R&D Outsourcing Case study: Blackberry 10 development Outsourcing of R&D functions of company is not a new concept. Its history can be traced way back to 1970’s and 1980’s when companies in United States were contracted by the government to carry out R&D activities on behalf of them. During the early 1990’s‚ concept of outsourcing R&D expanded rapidly. Today many global players in the market outsource at least a small portion of their R&D activities to other countries like
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Highlights of the article: This article discusses the Apple’s new iPhone‚ iPhone X‚ which is priced at whopping $1000 approximately. The new phone has a plethora of technological changes when compared to its predecessor. It is for the first time a smartphone has been priced at more $1000. Even though it was thought that such a high price tag would reduce the demand for the new iPhone‚ that doesn’t look like the case. This is the first time Apple had made radical changes since the introduction of iPhone
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Jean M. Twenge‚ professor of psychology at San Diego University in her article “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a generation?”Asserts about the tragic changes happening to the generation in this smartphone era. The new generation teens hesitate to interact with real people and they do not have a choice without ipads or iphones (59). The Twenge have been researching about this generational difference. The sudden change in the “behaviors and emotional states” in teen results the departing of
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Analysis of the global smartphone market and the strategies of its major players Hee-Chan Song Hanyang University‚ University of Texas at Dallas1 Business Administration‚ Philosophy Acknowledgment The author would like to acknowledge the valuable assistance of University of Texas at Dallas in the preparation of this manuscript‚ in particular the assistance of Professor Lee from the Management Department. The author is grateful to Professor Lee for offering positive feedback and suggestions for
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Unilever and P&G – Comparative Analysis Executive Summary The Consumer Products Industry is the biggest industry in the world at the moment‚ with total revenues amounting to about 50% of all goods sold. It is comparable to the GDP of the 4th biggest economy in the world‚ and entails most of the products we use in our every day lives. There are 3 key factors that drive the industry today: developing markets‚ the emerging middle-class of developing countries and the millions of baby boomers in
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Unilever is a complex global organization that has a portfolio of 400 brands‚ spanning 14 categories in home and personal care and food products. The company has 163‚000 employees in the 170 countries within which it operates (Unilever‚ 2010). Organizations such as Unilever face the challenge of configuring a global structure that “works well in diverse locations but also brings units together in a coordinated fashion” (Shenkar & Luo‚ 2007‚ p. 312). Given its wide range of products and the diversity
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Unilever has experienced quite a rollercoaster of marketing success and failure over the last 5 years. Originally its new 5-year strategic plan entitled Path to Growth’ had special promise and forecast for success. The primary objective of this plan was to cull Unilever’s tail’ brands and place extra emphasis on those which were market leaders. Niail Fitzgerald believes that too many brands often confuse the customer and thus lead to poor purchasing decisions. The paradox of choice between Unilevers’
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Unilever Unilever’s mission is to add Vitality to life. Unilever meet everyday needs of nutrition‚ hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good‚ look good and get more out of life Lever brothers started the company called Unilever in the year 1929 in Sao Paulo. Unilever has achieved a market capital of $56 billion with 300‚000 employees in 150 countries with 45 different brands. In 1930 Unilever launched their first detergent soap named sunlight soap. OMO detergent powder
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