...Business Analysis II MGT 521 October 10, 2011 Hoda Bagdady-Asal PhD Abstract The following is a business analysis of the Apple Company. This analysis has been used to determine the financial health of the Apple Company through review of its financial statements. Also, I have included a summary of Apple’s technological advantages over other companies in the same industry, as well as, a benchmarking analysis also comparing Apple to other companies. To invest in a company or not, its economic activities gives idea of the status in the market. Financial statement gives information of financial status of the company as well as its stability. Financial statement is an accounting report of the financial activities of a company base on the entrance and exists of money. Managers use financial statement of the company to evaluate performance of their employees, to prepare a budget of the company base on expectations, to make a decision that can modify operations in the company, for example, when Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 as a chief executive officer, base on the financial statements, closed plants, reduce number of employees, and sold stock to Rival Microsoft Corporation. His purpose was to obtain capital to inject to the company. Also manager uses financial statement for annual report of the company to stockholders. This financial statement is important for investors, lending companies, stockholders, for example evaluated...
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...Part A. (A.C 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3) (750 words) A new manager is starting in the organisation shortly. You have been asked to provide an outline to this new-starter, so that they can gain some understanding of the organisation in preparation for their start. The information you provide should include: A list of the main products and services of the organisation An identification of the main customers The purpose and goals of the organisation An analysis of a minimum of 4 external factors and their impact on the business activities of an organisation The structure and at least 4 functions of the organisation An explanation of how these different functions work together within the organisation to optimise performance An identification of the culture of the organisation and at least 2 ways this affects operations. NAME: COHORT: COMPANY: Apple Inc. WORD COUNT 750 In order to understand the organizational business or operation environment and cope with specific organizational culture, it seems important to get the comprehensive information regarding the products and services, customer base, organizational goals or objectives of the company and its internal or external influencing factors. Considering the same, brief insight about Apple Inc. can be of great help for new managers to understand and cope with new organizations culture. Apple Inc. is known in the global market place for its innovative new dimensions of digital technology, which...
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...Page1----------Introduction of Apple Page2--------- Organizational culture, design, structure Page3--------- Management of conflict and motivation of employees & Conclusion Page4------- Recommendation& Referencing List If there is a survey about which business you believe is the most valuable and has most revolutionary influence on the society last ten years, it must be true that most of the people will choose Apple. From some professional evaluation about Apple, it describes Apple as an enterprise which has ability to take over the world one bite at a time and is already doing it. As of July 2011, Apple is the largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization with 357 retail stores in ten countries and 60,400 permanent full-time employees and 2,900 temporary full-time employees around the world. (Profile: Apple Inc, n.d.)At the same time, its revenue and profit is more than Google and Microsoft combined, and its annual revenue is totaled $65 billion in 2010 and is growing to $108 billion in 2011 miraculously. (Harry Wilson, 2012) Apple not only is one of the most successful enterprises in the world nowadays, but also already is a creative, miraculous and revolutionary company which is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976 during its starting stage. (Cyrus Farivar, MacCentral, n.d.) Apple’s organizational mission is providing products which are innovative leadership and needed for consumers. (Apple Employee Handbook...
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...Page1----------Introduction of Apple Page2--------- Organizational culture, design, structure Page3--------- Management of conflict and motivation of employees & Conclusion Page4------- Recommendation& Referencing List If there is a survey about which business you believe is the most valuable and has most revolutionary influence on the society last ten years, it must be true that most of the people will choose Apple. From some professional evaluation about Apple, it describes Apple as an enterprise which has ability to take over the world one bite at a time and is already doing it. As of July 2011, Apple is the largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization with 357 retail stores in ten countries and 60,400 permanent full-time employees and 2,900 temporary full-time employees around the world. (Profile: Apple Inc, n.d.)At the same time, its revenue and profit is more than Google and Microsoft combined, and its annual revenue is totaled $65 billion in 2010 and is growing to $108 billion in 2011 miraculously. (Harry Wilson, 2012) Apple not only is one of the most successful enterprises in the world nowadays, but also already is a creative, miraculous and revolutionary company which is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976 during its starting stage. (Cyrus Farivar, MacCentral, n.d.) Apple’s organizational mission is providing products which are innovative leadership and needed for consumers. (Apple Employee Handbook...
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...Internal & External Factors of Apple, Inc. MGT/330 November 7, 2011 Internal and External Factors “Apple ignited the personal revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh” (Funding Universe, n.d, para. 1). Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak discover Apple Computer Incorporated in 1976. In 1982 Apple became the first personal computer company to reach one billion dollars in sales. Apple is the 5th largest company worldwide because Apple incorporates globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics along with the four functions of management to increase profits. The main goal of Apple is to distribute products such as the I-phone, desktop computers, and notebooks to consumers worldwide. Managers need to use the four functions of management such as planning to understand the consumer wants and needs. Apple set the speed for innovation. Apple creates a workplace and products for diversity. Diversity means people in a workplace have different races, genders, sexual orientation, and nationality. Ethics is a set of rules to explain how associates should act in the workplace. Apple uses ethics and the four functions of management to create a workplace that is free of harassment and provides a safe working condition for employees. Delegation, which is management giving tasks to lower employees also uses the four functions of management. Today Apple is the leader in globalization, technology, innovation...
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...Capturing Value in Global Networks: Apple’s iPad and iPhone Kenneth L. Kraemer, Greg Linden, and Jason Dedrick1 University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley and Syracuse University July 2011 1 Acknowledgement: This research has been supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation (CISE/IIS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Sloan Foundation or the National Science Foundation. Abstract This article analyzes the distribution of value from innovation in the global supply chains of the Apple iPad and iPhone. We find that Apple continues to capture the largest share of value from these innovations. While these products, including most of their components, are manufactured in China, the primary benefits go to the U.S. economy as Apple continues to keep most of its product design, software development, product management, marketing and other high-wage functions in the U.S. China’s role is much smaller than most casual observers would think. A key finding for managers is that they need to beware of relying too heavily on single customers. With its control over the supply chain, Apple has the power to make and break the fortunes of many of its suppliers. A key finding for policymakers is that there is little value in electronics assembly. Bringing high-volume electronics...
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...CHAPTER 1 Managers and Managing Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: LO1-1 Describe what management is, why management is important, what managers do, and how managers utilize organizational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational goals. LO1-2 Distinguish among planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (the four principal managerial tasks), and explain how managers’ ability to handle each one affects organizational performance. LO1-3 Differentiate among three levels of management, and understand the tasks and responsibilities of managers at different levels in the organizational hierarchy. LO1-4 Distinguish between three kinds of managerial skill, and explain why managers are divided into different departments to perform their tasks more efficiently and effectively. LO1-5 Discuss some major changes in management practices today that have occurred as a result of globalization and the use of advanced information technology (IT). LO1-6 Discuss the principal challenges managers face in today’s increasingly competitive global environment. Management part 1 A MANAGER’S CHALLENGE Steve Jobs has Changed His Approach to Management What is high-performance management? In 1976 Steven P. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van, and his partner Steven Wozniak sold his two programmable calculators, and they used the proceeds of $1,350 to build a circuit board in Jobs’s garage. So popular was the circuit board, which...
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...CHAPTER 1 Managers and Managing Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: LO1-1 Describe what management is, why management is important, what managers do, and how managers utilize organizational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational goals. LO1-2 Distinguish among planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (the four principal managerial tasks), and explain how managers’ ability to handle each one affects organizational performance. LO1-3 Differentiate among three levels of management, and understand the tasks and responsibilities of managers at different levels in the organizational hierarchy. LO1-4 Distinguish between three kinds of managerial skill, and explain why managers are divided into different departments to perform their tasks more efficiently and effectively. LO1-5 Discuss some major changes in management practices today that have occurred as a result of globalization and the use of advanced information technology (IT). LO1-6 Discuss the principal challenges managers face in today’s increasingly competitive global environment. Management part 1 A MANAGER’S CHALLENGE Steve Jobs has Changed His Approach to Management What is high-performance management? In 1976 Steven P. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van, and his partner Steven Wozniak sold his two programmable calculators, and they used the proceeds of $1,350 to build a circuit board in Jobs’s garage. So popular was the circuit board, which...
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...CHAPTER 1 Managers and Managing Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: LO1-1 Describe what management is, why management is important, what managers do, and how managers utilize organizational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational goals. LO1-2 Distinguish among planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (the four principal managerial tasks), and explain how managers’ ability to handle each one affects organizational performance. LO1-3 Differentiate among three levels of management, and understand the tasks and responsibilities of managers at different levels in the organizational hierarchy. LO1-4 Distinguish between three kinds of managerial skill, and explain why managers are divided into different departments to perform their tasks more efficiently and effectively. LO1-5 Discuss some major changes in management practices today that have occurred as a result of globalization and the use of advanced information technology (IT). LO1-6 Discuss the principal challenges managers face in today’s increasingly competitive global environment. Management part 1 A MANAGER’S CHALLENGE Steve Jobs has Changed His Approach to Management What is high-performance management? In 1976 Steven P. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van, and his partner Steven Wozniak sold his two programmable calculators, and they used the proceeds of $1,350 to build a circuit board in Jobs’s garage. So popular was the circuit board, which...
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...use of power are not always clear cut. From an international business perspective- for MNE- with supply chain components spread across the globe, it becomes important to establish a moral compass to guide an organization to profit its stakeholders. One important factor (albeit a challenging one) in determining that moral compass is the culture. For example- an American company’s managers goes to a developing country and finds out that 40% of its sub-contractors’ labor consists of children under the age of 12. The sub-contractor has hired them because a) Children are cheaper than an adult, which results in reduced costs and higher profit for the American company b) A part of the process can be handled efficiently by a child (say making carpets) c) If the child was not allowed to work, consequences will be worse than employing that child for example prostitution or slavery D) it’s a “culturally established and acceptable practice” in that country e) Competition is also employing children – so abandoning that would result in the loss of a competitive advantage. What should the American manager do? Should he allow the status quo and agree with his sub-contractor? Should the sub-contractor succumb to the pressure from the parent company to meet unrealistic performance goals that can be attained only by cutting corners or acting in an unethical manner? Probably not, because that would violate the reasonable prohibition against child labor in the country of sub-contractor...
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...223 Innovation and Job Creation in a Global Economy: The Case of Apple’s iPod Greg Linden1, University of California, Berkeley Jason Dedrick, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University Kenneth L. Kraemer, University of California, Irvine Abstract Globalization skeptics argue that the benefits of globalization, such as lower consumer prices, are outweighed by job losses, lower earnings for U.S. workers, and a potential loss of technology to foreign rivals. To shed light on the jobs issue, we analyze the iPod, which is manufactured offshore using mostly foreign-made components. In terms of headcount, we estimate that, in 2006, the iPod supported nearly twice as many jobs offshore as in the United States. Yet the total wages paid in the United States amounted to more than twice as much as those paid overseas. Driving this result is the fact that Apple keeps most of its research and development (R&D) and corporate support functions in the United States, providing thousands of high-paid professional and engineering jobs that can be attributed to the success of the iPod. This case provides evidence that innovation by a U.S. company at the head of a global value chain can benefit both the company and U.S. workers. 1 This article represents solely the views of the authors and not the views of the U.S. International Trade Commission or any of its individual Commissioners. This paper should be cited as the work of the authors only, and not as an official...
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...key factors to having effective management. Internal and external factors influence the decision-making process, which therefore affects management. Competitive landscapes are constantly changing, so managers must consider businesses and people from around the world. Globalization, innovation, technology, diversity, and ethics require comprehensive planning, and are essential in every aspect of management. One such organization is Apple, who uses strategic planning and organizational tools to successfully manage and market technology. Globalization is an external, driving factor that has a major impact on the way managers run businesses. It is the result of a notable increase in cross-border trade, cultural exchange, investments, emergent economies and population growth (New World Encyclopedias, 2008). Globalization affects the four functions of management directly, or directly affects the core competencies of management which are planning, organizing, leading and controlling (Bateman & Snell, 2011). Globalization causes situations or events to take place within a business in which managers have no direct control over. This external factor (Globalization), causes businesses and organizations such as Apple Inc. to monitor and update the company’s business plan concerning the core...
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...Google and apple Leadership styles There are a number of different approaches, or 'styles' to leadership and management that are based on different assumptions and theories. The style that individuals use will be based on a combination of their beliefs, values and preferences, as well as the organizational culture and norms which will encourage some styles and discourage others. * Charismatic Leadership * Participative Leadership * Situational Leadership * Transactional Leadership * Transformational Leadership * The Quiet Leader * Servant Leadership Charismatic Leadership Disciplines > Leadership > Leadership styles > Charismatic Leadership Assumptions | Style | Discussion | See also Assumptions Charm and grace are all that is needed to create followers. Self-belief is a fundamental need of leaders. People follow others that they personally admire. Style The Charismatic Leader gathers followers through dint of personality and charm, rather than any form of external power or authority. The searchlight of attention It is interesting to watch a Charismatic Leader 'working the room' as they move from person to person. They pay much attention to the person they are talking to at any one moment, making that person feel like they are, for that time, the most important person in the world. Charismatic Leaders pay a great deal of attention in scanning and reading their environment, and are good at picking up the moods and...
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...Business Analysis of Apple Inc Apple Computer Company originated on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, dropped out of high school. At the time of forming their partnership, Steve Jobs worked for Atari and Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett-Packard. Their company initially started in Steve Jobs’ garage. The first computer was the Apple I, followed by Apple II which launched in 1977. By 1980, Apple III was released and they were able to employ several thousand people. Apple or “the company” is engaged in design, development and marketing of personal computers, media devices, and portable digital music players (Research and, M. 6). The company also sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. The two master minds behind the Apple branding has lead to $65.23 billion dollars in sales in 2010. The amount of technical devices this company has produced over the years has earned superior creditability in the technology field for stationery and portable devices. Today Apple’s annual review is more than 60 billion, making them the largest technology company in the world. Apple aims to continually invest in research and development for products that best serve the needs of the market. It is very important in the role as a mutual fund manager, to evaluate the business analysis of Apple Inc. before making the decision of whether or not to invest into this company...
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...Samsung case I. How attractive is Samsung’s primary (core) industry? Founded in 1938, Samsung is one of the industry leaders in a multitude of industries from power generation through to smart phones (Kovach, 2013). Each of their business units adhere to the same vision of becoming the preferred supplier of products and/or services to their clients, but the methods used to achieve this vision are tailored to suit the specific market focus, therefore demonstrating the adaptability of the company. The biggest players are Apple, Samsung with well over 50% market share. Samsung has achieved these amazing results due to its success in the mobile business, which contributed more than two-thirds of its operating profit. Anyone following Samsung, however, should not overlook its other businesses. In Samsung's non-mobile businesses, the company holds a leading position in solid industries and has consistently increased its year-over-year operating profit for the last several quarters. Most of the innovation for the Samsung products shared the same core design. Samsung flexible product line able them to materialize those ideas to end products with minimal cost occurred. For every new invention and innovation, Samsung does not need to set up a new facility. The results, higher yield against the cost of the production. Lower cost of productions allowed Samsung to offer attractive and competitive price for the consumer. The relatively lower cost gives lots of rooms for the pricing...
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