...Laptop PCs Japan | | Table of Contents Introduction 3 Industry Overview 4 PESTLE Analysis 5 Political 5 Economic 5 Legal 5 Social 6 Technological 7 Ecological 7 Porters Five Forces 9 Rivalry 9 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 9 Bargaining Power of Customers 10 Threat of New Entrants 10 Threat of Substitutes 11 Appendices 1-11 12 References 20 Introduction Japan is a well-developed country with a well-developed economy. Japan is ranked 10 in the world with population with 126 475 664 people and is ranked 3 in the world for Gross Domestic Product with $4323504 million. A change to the Japanese economy has effects all over the world. Japan’s considered market leader in many different fields including the Laptop PC industry. The countries GDP is shown in Appendix 1 (CIA World Factbook 2011) Industry Overview Over the past eight years, there has been a change in consumer demand with Japanese consumers increasing their desire for mobility and value. This has meant laptop growth has increased ahead of desktops. Appendix 2 shows the difference in growth over this period. Laptop Shipments have passed 70% of all Japanese PC sales (M. Williams 2008) and this figure is certain to have increased since and would likely be more towards 85% reflective of production. The Japanese...
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...What to Buy? Laptop or Tablet? It is always an exciting time when you are in the market to buy a new gadget. Buying a new tablet or laptop can be fun and scary at the same time. You can overload your brain trying to figure out what brand, style, size, color, etc. The list of features and options are endless. When you are thinking about buying a laptop or tablet. You have to think about what you are really going to be using the device for? Reason you should ask yourself that is because the pros and cons list can weight in very different based off “why do you want this factor?”. Depending on your budget, either way both devices will am sure will bring you joy. If you are thinking about a laptop here are some things you can think about. If you don’t have a desktop, getting a laptop would be a smart idea because they are just as powerful as a desktop but portable. Depending on your budget you can get very powerful laptops with beautiful displays. If you are looking for something as your main source of connection to the internet. Having the fiscal keyboard would be better just for email typing and case papers for school. Laptops can also come with a disk drive which can be very useful for CDs and watching DVDs. Not to mention all the other inputs they have for extra display options and audio. The computing task of a laptop is much stronger and can easily handle multitasking. If you like storing pictures, a music library, or videos laptops can house larger hard drives...
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...LAPTOPS V/S HAND-HELD DEVICES IN B-SCHOOLS- STUDIES ON USAGE, PREFERENCE AND BEHAVIOR PATTERNS Neeraj Kumar; Rekha Makhija; Prashant Iyer and Mohamed Sheriff Ameer neeraj.gjan14@spjain.org S P Jain School of Global Management | Dubai ∙ Singapore ∙ Sydney ABSTRACT: Today’s market has so many gadgets that consumers are almost spoilt for choice. Also a bulk of the consumers who are students have difficulty in choosing between laptops or handheld devices like smart phones and tablets for their day to day activities. In this paper attempt has been made to highlight how education and technology have evolved hand in hand over the years. We also have conducted an exhaustive research on the usage patterns of laptops and handheld devices among students to find their preferences and behavior patterns. We have restricted our research to Business school students because they are widely exposed to various gadgets as part of their academic learning and daily activities. This study helps us to gauge, compare and to an extent even predict the future of different gadgets in the higher education sector. The survey showed that though the current usage of laptops is highest for academic and leisure activities, their preference are more towards tablets. There are various business schools that have already adapted tablets as a substitute for laptops and books. With the rapidly increasing advancement in technology, the usage of tablets for education is expected to become more widespread...
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...product development and choose either a dual-path or over-design approach currently. If I were a member of the team, based on the information given in the case study my recommendation would be to defer obligation to either battery design and go with a dual-path approach for now. At the time of this decision regarding batteries, looking at the financial data of Dell presented in the case, there are many factors to be considered. The net sales of the company were $890 and $2014 million in 1991 and 1992 respectively. The increase was much more than the forecast. But the Dell’s sales market share of laptops showed a decrease from 12% in 1992 to 2% in 1993. Due to the austere character of Dell’s business model, the R&D expenses were also a small part of the sales. The R&D expenses represented 4.7% of sales in 1991 and dropped to 2.4% in 1992. There is an understated importance of laptop sales market share in 1993. The portable computer sales are forecast to double in 1994 so it is necessary for Dell to make a decision and launch a product to capture maximum part of the market. It also needs to recuperate from its bad market and customer reputation because of recall of 17,000 notebooks, which were found to have faults in the electrical circuitry. The portable computer market was a highly commoditized...
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...that capacity? Is a keyboard enough, or should I splurge for the touchpad/keyboard combo? Do you have any that aren’t this heavy? These are all question I heard from consumers who were looking to buy a new laptop. Laptops have become a necessity to many these days. With a technological world that is rapidly expanding, desktops have become out-of-date, and consumers are demanding laptops with grand capabilities fit into a small package. The vast amount of options out there give consumers a variety of options to choose from. Consumers demand different qualities from their laptop whether it is processing, durability, battery life, display, and a variety of other options. This paper will discuss the present displays being used in stores to promote the products, what consumers voice in terms of what they want in a laptop, and primarily what brands can do to further help their sales. For this specific paper, I will be looking at Dell as the targeted brand. Dell was once the dominant presence is the computer industry, but their market share is diminishing constantly. My goal in this research is to determine what Dell is doing wrong if anything, and what they can do with their brand and products to regain their lost market share. The first store I stopped out to see their laptop display was Best Buy. Best Buy is one of the leading electronic stores in the nation, and is on the market as one of the top retailers that consumers shop at for electronics. The clerks there are tech savvy...
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...Seisakusho Works, which manufactured transformers, electrical motors, hydroelectric generators, and X-ray tubes; and Tokyo Electric Company, which produced light bulbs, radio receivers, and cathode ray tubes. The first company in Japan to make fluorescent lamps (1940), radar (1942), broadcasting equipment (1952), and digital computers (1954), Toshiba became the first in the world to produce the powerful one-megabit DRAM2 chip in 1985. The first laptop computer, the T3100, was also unveiled by Toshiba, in 1985.3 In 1995, Toshiba was an electronics giant, third in Japan behind Hitachi and Matsushita,4 posting sales of $47.9 billion and a net profit of $447 million. The information and communication systems and electronic devices division, which included notebook PCs, accounted for 52% of the company’s total sales. By 1995, Toshiba had produced more than 5 million portable PCs since it introduced the first laptop a decade earlier. The market for portable PCs was one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding segments of the computer industry, as increasingly mobile professionals demanded powerful, light-weight machines packed with features. In total, 2.85 million notebook computers were sold in the U.S. in 1994, and sales in 1995 were projected to exceed 3.6 million units. In the first quarter of 1995, Toshiba was the leader in the lucrative US portable computer market, with a 19%. Toshiba’s Ome Works, located 50 kilometers west of Tokyo in the city of Ome, began operation in January...
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...History of Laptop Computers - History Left - Modern Laptop Today It is a little hard to determine what was the first portable or laptop computer, the first portable computers did not look like the book-sized and folding laptops that we are familiar with today, however, they were both portable and lapable, and lead to the development of notebook style laptops. I have outlined several potential firsts below and how each qualifies, many of the off-site links provide good photos of the computers that will let you see the progression in design. The First Laptop? Maybe Designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen. Ads Get Success With CPAwww.cpaaustralia.com.au/asapStay Ahead & Become A Leader With The CPA Program. Enrol Today! RS Components MalaysiaMalaysia.RS-Online.comWe Stock Over 550,000 Products. Free Delivery, Order Online Now! Want A Career In IT?NewINTI.edu.my/ComputingBe Industry Ready In 3 Years. Apply For Computing In INTI Now! Gavilan Computer As The First Laptop? Manny Fernandez had the idea for a well-designed laptop for executives who were starting to use computer. Fernandez, who started Gavilan Computer, promoted his machines as the first "laptop"...
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...make similar mistakes what he calls ‘mind gap’. This is what leads us to walk out of a shop believing we bought what we wanted. This study will attempt to understand behavioural difference between individuals and group consumers based on influence from various environmental factors. This raises the need for consumer behaviour analysis using a nominated product buying decision process. In this research I’ll use my past experience in the purchase of a laptop for university purpose and a large quantity of laptops for an organisation I worked for. This document this will be categorised into individual and Organisation buying decision process The Individual Analysis * Understanding the customer: influences Personal and Social To get an accurate individual analysis, it is important to understand the consumer demographics and background that influences the decision process. The Organisation * Understanding the customer: influences Buy class and product type The organisation is a multinational food and beverage industry operating in east and south of Africa. The Individual Buying Decision Process 1. The Need According to (Dadhe 2015) a need or want is the feeling of being deprived of something. Any unsatisfied consumer is neither happy nor comfortable. This is essentially what drives a consumer to buying. (Hynes 2014) on the other hand categorises need into functional or emotional. In other words...
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...Kimberly Dupree March 31, 2015 NT1110 Computer Type | RAM | Hard Drive Capabilities | Processor Speed | Price | Name of Processore | Toshiba Satellite Laptop C55-B5100 | 4 GB | 500 GB | 2.58 GHz | $229.99 | Intel Celeron | HP Laptop 15-f21dx | 4 GB | 750 GB | 2 GHz | $299.99 | AMD A8 Series | HP Pavillion All-In-One 23p-114 | 8 GB | 1 TB | 2 GHz | $779.99 | AMD A8 Series | Dell Inspiron All-In-One I3043-5001BLK | 4 GB | 500 GB | 2.66 GHz | $509.99 | Intel Pentium | For someone who is in the industry of making movies they will need a computer that offers the best graphics system, a large amount of memory, and a few other things to make high quality pictures. These type of computers are engineered for performance, often with Intel Core i7 processors offering high-performance speed and cores, video acceleration from a professional-grade GPU, integrated high-performance hard drives, and more attention to system integration issues like heat dissipation. For complex layered projects, you then can add a fast external disk drive like a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) storage array to provide the necessary bandwidth for processing multitudes of files. Products like Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Apple Final Cut Pro X, and Sony Vegas Pro 10 typically recommend at least a 2 GHz multi-core processor (e.g., Intel Core 2 Duo), 2 to 4 GB of RAM, a GPU-accelerated graphics card like the NVIDIA GeForce with at least 256 MB of internal memory, and a 7200...
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...FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSUMERS’ LAPTOP PURCHASES Dr. V. Aslıhan Nasır, Sema Yoruker, Figen Güneş and Yeliz Ozdemir Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey ABSTRACT The rapid developments in IT sector accompanied by increased competition and acquisitions and mergers in the market, lead both academicians and practitioners to concentrate on the consumers’ purchase decisions in portable PC industry. The NDP group’s report published by PC World state that in May 2003, U.S. retailers made more money selling laptop/notebook computers than they did selling desktops. It was the first time that laptops have outsold desktops in the U.S. This research seeks to develop a better understanding of the factors influencing consumers’ laptop purchases. What makes this study distinctive from other sectoral studies is that, this research also seeks the differences among three consumer groups (stayers, satisfied switchers, and dissatisfied switchers) of a company with respect to the factors influencing consumers’ laptop purchases. It is found that core technical features, post purchase services, price and payment conditions, peripheral specifications, physical appearance, value added features, and connectivity and mobility are the seven factors that are influencing consumers’ laptop purchases. Furthermore, price and payment conditions factor shows significant difference among three consumer groups of a company’s customer base. INTRODUCTION There are seminal studies...
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...the industry rule: It tries to pay as quickly as it can – by getting claims adjusters out of the office and onto the street where they can interact with clients. The logic behind such a radical notion? Happier customers and more productive claims reps will more than make up for the lost interest revenue. At Progressive, that radical notion is based on IRV, which stands for “immediate response vehicle,” a fleet of SUVs loaded with enough communications gear – laptops, printers, and cell phones – to allow adjusters to settle claims right at the scene of the accident. That’s a big improvement over the scenario that still pervades the industry: Wait a week or two to see the car and make hand written notes, snap photos, drive back to the office, type it all into the mainframe computer, and issue a request for a check. Ten years ago, the IRV project involved just 10 adjusters in Florida. Today more than 11,000 mobile claims reps share a fleet of 2,600 IRVs. Not only did the program help improve customer retention by 20% last year; it has helped Progressive shave labor costs. Progressive’s mobile adjusters can handle nearly twice the workload they could a decade ago. IRVs have also helped revenues climb from $1.8 billion to more than $9 billion during that period. A wireless laptop provides around the clock access to Progressive’s mainframe computer. An adjuster can type a claim while sitting in a body shop and go over it with the policy- holder right on the screen. The laptops also...
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...FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSUMERS’ LAPTOP PURCHASES Dr. V. Aslıhan Nasır, Sema Yoruker, Figen Güneş and Yeliz Ozdemir Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey ABSTRACT The rapid developments in IT sector accompanied by increased competition and acquisitions and mergers in the market, lead both academicians and practitioners to concentrate on the consumers’ purchase decisions in portable PC industry. The NDP group’s report published by PC World state that in May 2003, U.S. retailers made more money selling laptop/notebook computers than they did selling desktops. It was the first time that laptops have outsold desktops in the U.S. This research seeks to develop a better understanding of the factors influencing consumers’ laptop purchases. What makes this study distinctive from other sectoral studies is that, this research also seeks the differences among three consumer groups (stayers, satisfied switchers, and dissatisfied switchers) of a company with respect to the factors influencing consumers’ laptop purchases. It is found that core technical features, post purchase services, price and payment conditions, peripheral specifications, physical appearance, value added features, and connectivity and mobility are the seven factors that are influencing consumers’ laptop purchases. Furthermore, price and payment conditions factor shows significant difference among three consumer groups of a company’s customer base. INTRODUCTION There are seminal studies on consumer purchase...
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...the world can use their mobile devices to do anything that they would normally do on a laptop or a personal computer. At this point, there are no foreseeable bounds where mobile technology is concern. The healthcare industry is now realizing this fact and has decided to implement mobile technology within their industry. While still in the early stages of implementing mobile technology within the healthcare industry, there are many things to consider, and questions to ask. Within this paper, I will answer such questions as patient information accuracy, security issues, advantages and disadvantages of using a mobile device and the impact the social media has within the healthcare industry. Distinguish between patient self monitoring using mobile computing technology to inpatient visits to the doctor or hospital As technology continues to penetrate our daily lives, all forms of business have decided to take advantages of this phenomenon; from manufacturing to healthcare. Patients now possess the ability to monitor their vital signs using mobile technology, instead of travelling to clinics and hospitals to visit doctors. “In the past few years, the technology landscape has been drastically changed by the proliferation of consumer-focused mobile computing devices. These devices, primarily smart phones and mobile tablets, are a new type of platform – less power than laptops and workstations, but with more functionality and connectivity than traditional phones and...
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...12-17-14 Paradigm Shift Over the years, we’ve since technology grow not only in computers, television, but cellphones from big bulky phones to pagers to flip phones now smartphones. This has only happened in the last 40 yrs. now imagine in 20 yrs. from now? They’ll only get more advanced in technology but they’ll also replace laptops desktop computers. Cellphones will have 3 different impacts 20 years from now; entertainment, computers, education. Cell phone will change our education from how we will learn it to how it will be taught. Cell phone policies in schools have changed from not being allowed to they are useful in class for example teacher may not know a problem they can tell you to look it up on your phone. Not all schools have computer labs but 95% of the kids have phones so they could use it to get there work done, research a paper the possibilities are endless. Books are outdated but the internet isn’t so there’s more current information on the web. Teacher will go to their phone and use website or apps to teach things it’s more reliable and give answers with accuracy, Cell phone may replace books in the near future. The entertainment industry has changed since smartphones have been introduced now you can watch Television shows, movies anything you would watch or can watch on the TV you can do it on your phone. Cable companies have to adapt to this technology cause that’s what customers want as a customer I want to be able to record a show on my phone in case I’m not...
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...as possible to keep every penny of interest. Progressive Insurance is the notable exception to the industry rule: It tries to pay as quickly as it can – by getting claims adjusters out of the office and onto the street where they can interact with clients. The logic behind such a radical notion? Happier customers and more productive claims reps will more than make up for the lost interest revenue. At Progressive, that radical notion is based on IRV, which stands for “immediate response vehicle,” a fleet of SUVs loaded with enough communications gear – laptops, printers, and cell phones – to allow adjusters to settle claims right at the scene of the accident. That’s a big improvement over the scenario that still pervades the industry: Wait a week or two to see the car and make hand written notes, snap photos, drive back to the office, type it all into the mainframe computer, and issue a request for a check. Ten years ago, the IRV project involved just 10 adjusters in Florida. Today more than 11,000 mobile claims reps share a fleet of 2,600 IRVs. Not only did the program help improve customer retention by 20% last year; it has helped Progressive shave labor costs. Progressive’s mobile adjusters can handle nearly twice the workload they could a decade ago. IRVs have also helped revenues climb from $1.8 billion to more than $9 billion during that period. A wireless laptop provides around the clock access to Progressive’s mainframe computer. An adjuster can type a claim while...
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