...Zing PC Company Introduction In April 200X, Zippy Computer, Inc., merged with Binger International, Ltd. The new entity was named Zinger Electronics, Inc. and began trading on the NASDAQ. Zinger Electronics, Inc., produces a variety of high-tech goods and services—computers and servers, Internet services, Web hosting, and business-to-business e-commerce applications. Their award-winning computers are sold under the ZingPC brand to business, government, education, and consumer markets. The ZingPC division designs and manufactures a broad range of computer products that ranks among the industry leaders in technology, innovation, price, and computing performance. These award-winning products are marketed under the following lines: Zinger Millennia desktop computers, Zinger TransPort notebook computers, Zinger ClientPro corporate computers, and HP NetServer servers. These product lines are manufactured exclusively at the company’s facilities in Cheyenne, Wyoming. ZingPC products can be purchased directly from the company’s Web site http://www.ZingPC. com, by calling a toll-free 800 telephone number, through company field sales representatives, and through leading national retailers. Early Successes and Challenges As a new organization, ZingPC adopted a product-focused strategy. Its goal was to provide the fastest and most powerful PC on the market. ZingPC built a 216,000- square-foot facility in Laramie, Wyoming (more than doubling its original capacity), and dedicated...
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...power and hand-crank powering lost cost (Quelch, 2008). These terms for an innovative, unique laptop seem bound for success (Davison, 2008). The $100 laptop should be experiencing growth in developing countries. However, some developing countries are reluctant to develop OLPC laptop, and some have cancelled planned purchases (Kraemer, Dedrick & Sharma, 2009). Meanwhile, the OLPC organization (www. olpc.com) struggles with key staff defections, budget cuts, mission disillusionment, high cost of OLPC laptop, difficult to sell to developing countries and unexpected aggressive competitors’ threats. These obstacles faced by OLPC indicate OLPC might not provide a new tool for children in developing countries and cannot profitably reach millions of poor children in developing countries. Here, we have to ask some questions: Is the vision still viable? How can OLPC sell 5 million laptops to developing countries? How can they overcome the design and cost challenges? How do they effectively deal with competitors’ similar products? The major problems faced...
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...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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...away. The upsurge of online streaming seems to be the new “thing”. In order to combat this problem Redbox needs to develop a streaming business that can compete with the likes of Netflix, Apple and other rivals (Redbox rivals can be found in Exhibit 2). If Redbox can accomplish this task, it will give Redbox further growth expansions providing them with a competitive advantage. Situation Synopsis (extended SWOT) A quick SWOT Analysis lays out Redbox’s standing: Strengths Weaknesses Cheap Rental Prices $1.20+tax Limited only to New DVD Releases More clients because of No membership fees Maintaining physical stock Various Locations Poor advertising 1st of its kind Limited functionality of machines Offers free DVD promotion rental 28-day delay of new releases No late fees to customers Opportunities: Threats PC Rental Games Netflix- best streaming service available Video Streaming Blockbuster Counsel Games On Demand Channel, Apple TV, Hulu Monthly Membership Public Libraries Expand Overseas (UK, China Canada) Strengths Paragraph Since 2004 Redbox has differentiated itself by the 1st of its kind to go into the...
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...of alternatives, purchase decision and postpurchase behavior. Let’s take a look at how these stages contrast for purchasing different items, say, for a new notebook PC and a jar of peanut butter. Firstly, the process starts with need recognition. The need of a jar of Jif is much triggered by internal stimuli (hunger here). But the need of a new Notebook PC is triggered by external stimuli. You may increase the efficiency and productivity for school or work by having a new PC. The second stage is information search in which different search process may be used. In your notebook PC information search, you may pay attention to your colleagues’ PCs, notebook PC ads, notebook PC conversations, where your knowledge about PCs can be increased, and you may learn about several available brands and also help you drop certain brands from your consideration list. In contrast, you don’t have to do that many things or even anything when you simply want a 16 oz. jar of Jif creamy style peanut butter, because you know you are going to get one at Wal-Mart. Then, we need to work on evaluation of alternatives. We are familiar enough with the Jif peanut butter, so we don’t need to put too much effort for it in this stage. We are certain that a 16 oz. jar of Jif creamy style peanut butter is right what we want. But a notebook PC is not a common touch, which means we might want to have an elaborate evaluation process for purchasing one. For instance, we might pick a brand or make the decision...
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...Co., Sony Corporation and many others. Main Competitors SWOT HP SWOT analysis 2013 Strengths 1. Strong presence in China 2. Brand reputation 3. Diversified product portfolio Weaknesses 1. Poor competency in acquisitions 2. 29% of income comes from personal systems division 3. Poor presence in tablet market Opportunities 1. Expand services and enterprise solutions divisions 2. Increasing demand of cloud based services 3. Acquisition of more technology related patents Threats 1. Retaliation by incumbent firms in software services 2. Slowing growth rate of the PC market 3. Rapid technological change Strengths 1. Strong presence in China. The economy of China has been growing at a steady more than 8% rate every year. The growing economy accelerates corporate spending and HP is well positioned to benefit from it. The company has increased its investments in the market and expanded product and service offerings, especially its enterprise business and services divisions. These divisions offer the most profitable HP’s products, including cloud computing services and enterprise solutions. Strategic expansion into Chinese market may result in a strong competitive advantage for the business in the near future. 2. Brand reputation. HP is the world’s leading PC vendor with more than 15% market share. It is also one of the major providers of service network products. The company has a significant...
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...Pancreatic cancer is the most lethal type of gastrointestinal cancer. Gastrointestinal cancer refers to a malignant condition in the esophagus, stomach, biliary system, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, rectum , anus , and other accessory organs of digestion. Circulating tumor cells are the tumor cells that fall off from solid tumor masses and travel into the peripheral blood circulation. CTCs aid as a non-invasive biomarker to detect cancers. Low sensitivity is the main problem in traditional CellSearch System in detecting CTCs, however, there was a higher detection rate of CTCs with the NE-iFISH system. NE-iFISH significantly improved the positive detection rate of CTCs, triploid CTC could be used to predict prognosis or the...
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...countries poled. If we look at the GIT report for 2013 Taiwan scored 6 out of 7 for local competition giving them a rank of 3rd out of 144. With accessibility to digital content also scored high with 6.3 out of 7. Factor in their math and science education ranking 6th overall, it is easy to see why Taiwan is home to a major company like Quanta Computer. (1, p.268) Quanta’s competitive strategies were geared towards having the company become a market leader in almost every aspect of business it entered. We see Quanta recently move towards vertical integration by controlling many of its procedures ranging from shipping directly to customers to production of other components in its PCs. Cost was also a strategy Quanta wanted to control in order to be competitive amongst other devices such as the Eee PC. This cost factor was well illustrated in the OLPC program Quanta undertook. If Quanta could cut costs and meet the criterion for the OLPC program, they could see a totally new market emerge that they could...
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...1. Evaluate Microsoft’s strategy in good and poor economic times. In Good Economic Times: Microsoft is the world’s most successful software company. The original mission of this company is “a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software.” Microsoft's tactic was to be a software manufacturer and make its operating system available to computer manufacturers for use in their personal computer products, and then sell the owners of PCs software to run on that operating system. The history was begins in early 1980, where Microsoft creates DOS Operating System for IBM computer. The company used this inertial success with IBM to sell software to other manufacturer, quickly making Microsoft a major player in this industry. This is one of the changes for Microsoft to grown faster with the inertial advertising efforts focused on communicating the company range products from DOS to the launch of Excel and Windows. Later in 1986, Microsoft went to public with windows operating system and Microsoft office. The strategy contribute to launch this two application is a milestone for Microsoft to future successful. After that, Microsoft found an instant success where they launch the window 3.0 which is offered an improved set of windows icons and application like file manager and program manager where still being used today. Microsoft doing a magazine advertising and received endorsement from the top computer magazine in the industry is another key...
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...Case 1-3 Acer Inc. Acer Inc. is a leading marketer of notebook and desktop PCs. The company, which posted sales of $11.3 billion in 2006, also produces other products such as flat-screen monitors and personal digital assistants. As Taiwan gained a reputation as the “tech workshop of the world,” Acer was able to become Taiwan’s number one exporter by manufacturing and marketing computers sold under its own brand name. Acer also produced equipment on an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) basis for well-known global companies such as IBM, Dell, and Hitachi. As company founder, chairman, and CEO, Stan Shih built Acer Inc. into one of Taiwan’s most successful companies. Despite Acer’s success, the company had trouble breaking into the American market. Between 1995 and 1997, Acer’s U.S. market share dropped from 15 to 5 percent. In the late 1990s, Shih noted, “In the United States and Europe, we are relatively weak. The local players there are very strong. The problem is that we don’t have good experience in marketing in those regions. It’s a people issue, not a product issue.” Shih has discovered that building brands in the business-to-business market is easier than building brands in the business-to-consumer market. “Business-to-consumer brands have more value but also face more challenges. People involved in business-to-business are usually rational, but consumers in business-to-consumer are usually emotional in choosing their brands,” he says. In 2000...
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...No Me-Too Products? Why Not Me-Too Products! Prepared for Peter Chou CEO HTC Corporation Prepared by HKU-FUDAN IMBA No.670,Guoshun Lu October 8, 2012 No Me-Too Products? Why Not Me-Too Products! Executive Summary To stay competitive in an ever-evolving landscape and in response to the emerging trend of mobile computing a decade later, HTC should introduce “me-too products” and join the tablet PC bandwagon. My research shows that HTC is likely to remain the major player in smartphone and tablet PC manufacturing if it follow suit. First, tablet PC category is fairly new, HTC does not necessarily need to sustain this “no-me-too” rule as long as its product concepts are no less innovative than the current offerings by competitors. Second, the 3G smartphone market is far from saturated. With HTC’s brand and R&D ability, HTC can vastly improve its market share. Third, Good artists borrow great artists steal--Pablo Picasso To implement and maximize the Me-Too Products strategy, my recommendations are as following: 1. Ensure the originality and creativity of “Me-to Products” • “Learn” from Samsung and “Steal” from Apple • Not necessarily price war involved, stay cool and stay stylish • Disruptive innovation—develop “Textbook” for students and “Solus” for the senior citizens. • Stick to Google Android system 2. Remain the pioneer of mobile computing a decade later • Keep the R&D...
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...Question : (TCO 2) Examine the figure. This port is called a _____. Student Answer: modem port keyboard port serial port parallel port Comments: Question 2. Question : (TCO 2) Why is having the correct device driver so important? Student Answer: It enables a specific operating system to run as multiple machines. It enables multiple computers to share devices. It enables a device to work in both a powered and unpowered state. It enables a specific operating system to control a specific piece of hardware. Comments: Question 3. Question : (TCO 2) What is the maximum transfer rate for a USB 2.0 port? Student Answer: 1.5 Mbps 3 Mbps 10 Mbps 480 Mbps Comments: Question 4. Question : (TCO 2) Which of the following would help with computer heat? Student Answer: Increased power supply wattage Larger power supply form factor Unplugging unused power connectors Installing case fans Comments: Question 5. Question : (TCO 2) One practical method to lower frustration that arises when reassembling the computer is _____. Student Answer: knowing where the traces on the motherboard lead. drawing diagrams as you disassemble the computer. meditating before disassembling and reassembling. always having the correct tool on hand. Comments: Question 6. Question : (TCO 2) While working with a ribbon cable and connector, you discover...
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...E-Business There are several barriers involved in e-business, however the main success to e-business depend on the amount of online users available globally, and the base and originator of the buyers and sellers. The barrier of e-business it is divided into two categories technological and non-technological. . . 1) Personal Computer Penetration Personal computer penetration is the main display t( necessary need) to starting up and e-business. When it comes to PC penetration and ecommerce we can see that there is a direct relationship between them Rabe 2001; Singh, Jayashankar, and Singh 2001), moreover owning a pc is very much directed to actual revenue or income owned (Polster and Trinh 2000). So in this case developed countries are capable of owning more pc however the poorer countries are quite limited in the amount of Pc owning. For example PC manufactures in china may produce a computer for a price of $ 300; in our standard of developed countries it is extremely cheap. however in accordance to the poor countries ,economical factors and salary wages $ 300 could mount up to about 2 month of their average wage. This could cause a major problem for e-business as it could decrease the amount of global interaction or awareness. 2)Infrastructure Access to the internet in global developed countries is not a problem even if computers price have declined on increased. Having internet in developing countries is extremely common and in fact everywhere, from coffee shops...
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...Dell SWOT Analysis Strengths Build-To-Order Dell is servicing customers on a build to order PC model through an online sale channel more then through middleman retailers, giving Dell a great advantage over its competitors. This makes Dell computers more personalized and unique by giving each customer exactly what they want instead of a generic model PC offered to everyone while at the same time saving themselves money on production costs for Dell (Baker, 2011, 254). This strength that Dell has can offer consumers a variety of product differentiation that is not offered by other competitors. Dell allows customers to choose the size of their computer screen, the processor, the software, the color, the support, the protection, different cloud software, the storage detail and much more (Dell.com, n.d). Just-In-Time Michael Dell has been able to have an edge over its competitors since its life cycle began by focusing on cost efficiency as its top priority. In order to achieve such a big core competency Dell had to focus on a few key business models. Dell offers high quality products created in short spans of time to ensure quick delivery to consumers. This is done by working on a just in time manufacturing process which keeps finished inventory low leading to low inventory costs and low excess unwanted inventory. When fixed costs are low the savings can be related back to the consumer with aggressively low pricing (Baker, 2011, 254). Weaknesses Production Process Dell...
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