Blue Ocean Strategy Institute BOS022 How Apple ’s Corporate Strategy Drives High Growth 10/2012-5860 This case was written by Oh Young Koo‚ Institute Fellow of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute‚ under the supervision of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne‚ Professors at INSEAD. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Copyright © 2012 INSEAD TO ORDER COPIES OF INSEAD CASES‚ SEE
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faAre family the most important agent of socialisation? Socialisation is how a certain agent of socialisation socialises us into our gender roles and teaches us the norms and values of society. Family is an example of an informal agent of socialisation; there are other informal agents such as peers‚ education‚ workplace‚ mass media and religion. There are also formal agents and these include the army‚ the police‚ the government‚ the courts and the prison cells. Family is an important agent of socialisation
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Outcome 1 : Understand how to improve own performance 1.1 Explain the purpose and benefits of continuously improving performance at work: The purpose and benefits of continuously improving performance at work is so you improve your personal skills. For example if I was to get into the routine of typing on a keyboard‚ I will slowly but surely end up improving my typing skills/speed I am able to type. If you are in the routine of something it begins to become very easy and it ends up part
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This is the most important election in the history of the United States. Even more important than the elections of 1800‚ 1860‚ and 1932. The future of the United States hangs in balance‚ and this is largely because of the current situation of the Supreme Court. The balance of the Supreme Court is currently three conservative justices and four liberal justices‚ along with one justice who often votes conservative. The next president will probably appoint at least one‚ and up to four or five new Supreme
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adults. It is a time for freedom for most teenagers‚ but it is a giant step closer to their lifelong career. For some of the graduates‚ college is not the right path for them. For most‚ college can be a rigorous four years and beyond to an early adult’s life. Lenient people consider graduates should be able to settle their stressed minds a year before entering college because of the pressure in their previous school life. High school graduates should not take so long resting before the start of their
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Scope The purpose for writing this report is to assess the actual experiences of Apple Company in the context of individualized employment relationships. Putting up these three questions: 1. What issues of the employment relationship can be individually negotiated in organizations? (scope) 2. What issues of the employment relationship are individually negotiated in organizations? (actual use) 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of negotiations according to employees and managers
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conceal their real business performance and through superficial beautification‚ was able to portray a healthy picture of their business health Rubbermaid’s executives were very persistent about the 3-week due diligence period to complete such a huge deal to prevent Newell from delving deep into the company’s performance. As a result of this small window of due diligence and Newell’s own enthusiasm to acquire Rubbermaid‚ it failed to truly assess the business performance of Rubbermaid‚ and got distracted
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Motivating the Team to Improve Performance in the Workplace According to a recent survey‚ businesses in the UK waste £15.5b each year dealing with poorly performing employees with managers spending 11% or approximately 1 hour a day redoing or correcting the mistakes of others. John Ivancevich and Michael Mattson‚ the co authors of Organization Behaviour and Management state there are 5 major factors that influence individual behavioural at work; they are: 1. Demographic Demographic factors
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APPLICATION OF DEMING 14 POINTS TO IMPROVE CLASS PERFORMANCE AND LEARNING INTRODUCTION Total Quality management is very important for the success of any organisation. W. Edward Deming is considered as the father of total quality management. To improve quality of the organisation‚ these Deming’s 14 points must be followed. In this essay‚ Deming’s 14 points will be applied on improving class performance and learning in an education University. Classroom performance is the productivity and accountability
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represents these changes through the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge‚ who embodies what most upper class people of society valued in the 1800s. Through this‚ Dickens is able to show readers that the things we should value most in life are priceless‚ and are the key to ultimately finding happiness. Dickens uses Old Fezziwig to guide Scrooge into recognising how treating his own employee well can be an important key to being truly happy; something money could never buy. In contrast to Scrooge‚
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