...CASE ANALYSIS: Apple Inc. in 2010 MNGT 589 Strategic Management Teacher: Dr Henry Foster Group Members: 201280009 Clara Liaw Tsui Ling 201280026 Huo Yuanyuan 201280014 May Su Thwe Mang Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Company background/history 4 Mission, Vision and Values 4 Context: External Environmental Factors 6 Internal Environmental Factors 8 SWOT Analysis Strategic Statement Strategic Issues The Conceptual Framework Strategic Alternatives Most appropriate alternative selection Action Plan References Exhibits (Tables and Charts) Appendixes/attachments Executive Summary Up until early 2000’s Apple computers were considered exclusively for the elite. However things changed for the better when innovative non-PC products entered the market and their sales increased tremendously. The company continues to face challenges that brought them to implement strategies for the turn of the century as they continue to grow, adapting to trends and necessary changes towards the mobile industry. Among the different CEO’s leaderships, Steve Jobs brought the most innovative technology. He not only lead in the invention of good products, he changed the way people live and think. Although the other leaders had other strengths and different style of leadership, they made less significant changes throughout the century. This report will show you more information about our case study of Apple Incorporated before 2010. It...
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...FIN 751 – CORPORATE FINANCIAL POLICY & STRATEGY, FALL 2013 INSTRUCTOR: TOM BARKLEY CASE #1 – “Dividend Policy at Linear Technology” Written reports are to be no more than five typed pages (based on a 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins all around). The assignments are due at the beginning of class on Thursday, September 26, 2013. This case is designed to provide an introduction to payout policy and Modigliani and Miller’s dividend irrelevance proof. Consideration is given to why profitable technology firms like Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Intel used no debt, retained large cash balances and preferred to return cash to shareholders in the form of repurchases rather than dividends; how the tax and market environment for dividends has changed over time; and what impact the proposed dividend tax reforms and market environment of 2003 will have on future payout policy. Answer the following questions in your report: 1. Describe Linear Technology’s payout policy. You should examine the company’s historical payout ratio, dividend yield, (split-adjusted) dividends per share, and (split-adjusted) repurchases per share. 2. What are Linear’s financing needs? (Consider Linear’s historical capital expenditures and its cash balances.) Should Linear return cash to its shareholders? What are the tax consequences of keeping cash inside the firm? [For questions 3 and 4, assume a 3% rate of interest.] 3. If Linear were to pay out...
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...Company Analysis | GOOG | An Analysis of Google Inc | Chelsea Moore 5/4/2015 | Company Analysis Company: Google Google is a well known search engine created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. The idea of Google was once described by Page as "the perfect search engine that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want". Since then, Google has developed tremendously into more than just a search engine. The company offers Google Chrome, a freeware web browser, Gmail, Google Books, Play, News, Video, Image search, Maps, and dozens more. Google also works with businesses and offers several products to attract customers and build domains. Google's mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useable". Google reports four segments: The Google Website, Adsense Google Network websites, total advertising, and other revenue. The website and Adsense Google Network competes with Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, Bing, and several other companies. In the advertising segment, Google competes with the previous mentioned along with Monster Worldwide, Expedia, Scripps Interactive, Ebay, and others. In the other revenues segment, Google competes with Oracle, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and others. In fiscal year 2014, Google has not lived up to expectations. Growth was not disappointing, but Google missed estimates during the first three quarters. In Q4, profitability improved because of the holiday seasons...
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...Balochistan University of information techonology engineering and management sciences | Implementing Strategic Management | APPLE Inc. | Rabia Iftikhar 12285 | MBA 5th B | Jun 24, 2013 | | | | | | Ma'am Mehwish Shahid Think Different ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Praise and thanks to “ALLAH” Almighty, the one testing us all at all times and making decisions about what we don’t know and can’t know. The report being submitted today is a result of collective effort. There are innumerous helping hands behind who have guided us on our way. Writing this report appeared to be a great experience to us. It added a lot to our knowledge. This report is one of our memorable experiences in student life. Though words are inadequate in offering thanks to our teacher but we owe our profound gratitude to Ma’am Mehwish Shahid for stimulating our creative abilities by assigning this project to us and for her able guidance and useful suggestions, which helped us in completing the project in time. Whatever we have learnt from her and this project report has put indelible impression on our minds and it is our conviction that this learning experience will always be a source of help in our practical life and professional career. Finally, yet importantly, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to our beloved parents, for cooperation, help, kindness...
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...other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, serving more than 93 million customers. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers innovative, seamless business solutions to customers around the world. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a workforce of 238,000 and last year generated revenues of more than $120.5 billion. The major asset for Verizon commination is their Financial Stability: According to Verizon Communications 2013 Annual Report, the company has $227.3 billion in assets, operating revenues of $120.5 billion, Gross Profit ratio of 19.5, return on asset of 8.6, return on equity of 24 %and cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year ranging from $1.2 billion – $9.7billion over the last three years. With substantial assets, revenues with steady increase over the last three years and substantial amounts of cash on hand consistently year after year, Verizon’s financial backbone is very strong Company History Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon) was formed on June 30, 2000, with the $52 billion merger of Bell Atlantic Corp and GTE Corp., two of the...
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...Google Company Analysis Paper Abstract In this paper, I perform business analysis for Google Inc, the leading internet search engine provider in the world. Google Inc., a technology company, maintains index of Web sites and other online content for users, advertisers, Google network members, and other content providers. Its automated search technology helps users to obtain instant access to relevant information from its online index. The company provides targeted advertising and Internet search solutions, as well as hosted applications (Google profile, 2010). Mission, Goals & Objectives Google, the name of the company, reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google's mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful (Google’s corporation information, 2010). Google’s goals and objectives include the following: The company • Wants to have an improved infrastructure to make their engineers more productive. • Wants to be the best in search in the world. • Wants to push their ad system. • Wants to push their communities and content. • Tries to make sure their tools are running everywhere. • Google is always focusing on innovation (Google’s Internal Company Goals, 2010). Overall, Google wants to make the internet searching experience best for its customers and search results more accurate. Overview of the External...
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...corporation’s mission statement has become weak and unclear. The technology they use in general has not been compatible for years with other product lines, which is a turn off for customers more and more as the competition raises their game. From the outside looking in, Apple Inc. seems to be a successful, profitable organization that continues to dominate. However, taking a look deeper into their company from the inside we can see how certain factors could be a downfall to their success in the technology field. Table of Contents I. Introduction 4 II. Current situation 4-6 III. Corporate Governance 6 IV. External Environment 6-7 V. Internal Environment 7-9 VI. SWOT Analysis 9-10 VII. Implementation 10 VIII. Conclusion 10-11 IX. References 12 X. Appendix A 13-15 Introduction Apple Inc. began as a small company, formerly known as Apple Computer. Steve Jobs and his fellow classmate Steve Wozniak founded it in 1976 when they dropped out of college. Quickly, ‘Mike’ Markkula Jr. joined the team as the more experience businessman of the group. Jobs’ initial mission was to, “bring an easy-to-use computer to market” (Yoffie & Kim, 2011) and he succeeded the first few years of business. However, in 1984 competition seemed to be too much for their company as net...
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...LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY ARM Holdings Valuation Report 12BSP058: Financial Statement Analysis & Business Valuation Group: Airan Zhang, Chao Liu, Jun Wang, Tong Qian ARM Holdings Valuation Report ARM Holdings is a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier famous as low power compensation, high performance digital products. It was founded in 1990 in Cambridge UK, now has become an world’s leading semiconductor IP company which employing over 2,300 people and having 28 offices around the world. ARM licenses its technology as IP rather than manufacturing its own CPUs. Due to its own business model, the whole embodies all resources. The authorized capital can support the company cost and the royalties generated can be used as company revenue. Sectorial Analysis In 1990, the EU signed a voluntary agreement with Japanese government that stipulate the lowest price of the Japanese standard memory chip production in the European Common Market. Additionally, the European Commission anti-dumping measures not to accept the South Korean semiconductor supplier in 2007. The reason is that the Korean dumping the chip prices significantly lowers than the EU's acceptable price. The UK as second largest producer in electronics and semiconductors field its chip design technology has attracted worldwide attention. The UK has a free and high competitive market with a mature customer base than any other European countries. A rich source of investment funds and high-tech enterprise group...
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...INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS AND MANAGMENT For partial fulfillment of MBA programme 2011-2013 [pic] CONTEMPORARY REPORT ON “ STRATEGY ANALYSIS OF APPLE CORPORATION AND ITS PRODUCTS” [pic] |Submitted to: |Submitted by: | |Mr.Sandeep Vyas | Neha Singh | |Mr.Rahul Sharma |MBA/11/2065 | | | | CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project work of market research and analysis in the report entitled “Strategy analysis of apple corporation and its product” is a bonafide work carried out by Ms. Neha singh under my supervision and guidance. The project is submitted for the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Masters of Business Administration. The project is the original work carried out by the Student herself. Date:26/04/2012 Faculty Mentor: Mr.Sandeep Vyas Mr.Rahul Sharma PREFACE This project has been undertaken to understand the strategy of Apple...
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...Mid-Term Exam FINA6225 Christopher DiPesa NUID: 000158745 Discuss Box's need for capital as it grew. Wasn't it benefiting from increasing returns to scale? Why the need for additional capital? Box’s need for capital as it grew was to actually finance their growth. For instance, in 2004, Box received their first investment of $80,000. Levie and Smith were able to grow their user base to 1000 paying users in just a few short months. However, as the user base grew rapidly in a short period of time there were still only two employees, Levie and Smith. They had bootstrapped the company, which meant they had to do everything from coding of the platform to marketing, support and sales. Levie and Smith could not possibly support 1000 users by themselves therefore they needed an infusion of capital to appropriately scale the business and platform to accommodate the ever growing amount of users. Box would have actually experienced decreasing returns to scale if Levie and Smith continued without taking all the cash earned and investments obtained to finance growth. Box could not sustain the growth it was experiencing, scale the product and properly service the diverse set of customers (consumer and SMBs) as well as follow through on enterprise business customer acquisition strategies with cash from operations only. Enterprise sales is a capital intensive launch process. Sales cycles can be greater than a year. Box will have to spend a lot of upfront capital to acquire enterprise...
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...1 Apple Inc. Strategic Paper Management 4842 Section 2 11/19/2012 Alex Morrison Zach Teachey Marquis Graham 2 Table of Contents Part 1 Executive Summary ………………………………………………………………………3 Mission and Vision Statement ……………………………………………………………4 Financial Objectives ………………………………………………………………………4 Strategic Objectives ………………………………………………………………………5 Driving Forces ……………………………………………………………………………7 Key Success Factors …………………………………………………………………….10 Competitive Analysis ……………………………………………………………………11 Competitive Strategy ……………………………………………………………………14 External Analysis ………………………………………………………………………..15 Internal Analysis ………………………………………………………………………...16 Financial Analysis ……………………………………………………………………….18 Part 2 Issue # 1 …………………………………………………………………………………23 Issue # 2 …………………………………………………………………………………25 Issue # 3 …………………………………………………………………………………27 Issue # 4 …………………………………………………………………………………31 Issue # 5 …………………………………………………………………………………34 Issue # 6 …………………………………………………………………………………36 References ……………………………………………………………………………….39 3 Exec. Summary-Alex Morrison Apple is the number one leader in innovation in the technology industry. They strive to create unique, high quality products. Over the next five years Apple faces a several strategic issues. The first issue is that Apple’s products are fairly expensive. We recommend that Apple create a secondary market with less expensive products. The second issue is the working conditions in the manufacturing plants. We recommend that...
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...Contents 1. Executive Summary 4 2. Introduction 5 3. Industry Analysis 6 3.1 Market Value 6 3.2 SWOT Analysis for the Technology Sector 7 4. Non-Financial Analysis 8 4.1 Google Inc. 8 4.1.1 Company Profile 8 4.1.2 Strategic Target 8 4.1.3 SWOT Analysis 9 4.1.4 Others 10 4.2 Microsoft Corp. 11 4.2.1 Company Profile 11 4.2.2 Strategic Target 12 4.2.3 SWOT Analysis 13 4.2.4 Others 13 4.3 Amazon.com 14 4.3.1 Company Profile 14 4.3.2 Strategic Target 14 4.3.3 SWOT Analysis 15 4.3.4 Others 15 5. Financial Analysis 16 5.1 Profitability 16 5.1.1 Year-on-Year (YoY) Revenue Distribution 16 5.1.2 Net Income 19 5.1.3 Return on Total Asset (ROTA) 20 5.1.4 Return on Equity (ROE) 21 5.2 Liquidity and Financing 22 5.2.1 Short-Term: Current Ratio 22 5.2.2 Long-Term: Gearing 23 5.3 Shareholder Value 24 5.3.1 Earning Per Share (EPS) 24 5.3.2 Price Earning Ratio (PE Ratio) 25 5.3.3 Dividend Per Share 26 5.4 Risk and Discounting 26 5.4.1 CAPM and NPV on Google Inc. 27 5.4.2 CAPM and NPV on Amazon.com 29 5.4.3 CAPM and NPV on Microsoft Corp. 31 6. Investment Decision and Conclusion 34 6.1 Investment Evaluation’s Matrix 34 6.2 Investment Decision and Conclusion 38 7. References 39 8. Appendix 40 Figures and Tables Figure 51: Amazon YOY Revenue, Cost, and Operating Income 16 Figure 52: Microsoft YOY Revenue, Cost, and Operating Income 17 Figure 53: Google YOY Revenue...
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...------------------------------------------------- Apple Inc. Business Analysis Category: Business Autor: Mike 26 July 2010 Words: 3002 | Pages: 13 Business Analysis of Apple Inc. On April 1, 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne joined together to form Apple Computer Incorporated. The concept behind their company was the creation of an inexpensive, simple to use personal computer kit. Working out of Jobs' garage in Cupertino, California the trio designed and manufactured their first product in three months. They named this product the Apple I and it went on sale in July 1976 for $666.66. Six months after the release of the Apple I, Ronald Wayne opted to sell his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak for a meager $800. Soon thereafter multimillionaire Mike Markkula joined Apple and on January 3, 1977 the company was incorporated. Apple continued to gain momentum and was one of the fastest growing companies by the end of 1978. With the introduction of the Apple II plus, the company enjoyed a 400 percent increase in sales in 1979. In December of 1980 the company went public and within minutes the 4.6 million shares sold out at a price of $22 per share. An additional 2.6 million shares was also sold out by May 1981. However, the firm suffered its first major fallback with the release of the Apple III in September of 1980. The newest version had not undergone necessary testing due to time constraints and pressure from upper management. This proved to be extremely...
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...Intel® Technology Journal | Volume 18, Issue 4, 2014 HETERogEnEoUs FAcE REcognITIon: An EmERgIng TopIc In BIomETRIcs Contributor Guodong Guo West Virginia University An emerging topic in biometrics is matching between heterogeneous image modalities, called heterogeneous face recognition (HFR). This emerging topic is motivated by the advances in sensor technology development that make it possible to acquire face images from diverse imaging sensors, such as the near infrared (NIR), thermal infrared (IR), and three-dimensional (3D) depth cameras. It is also motivated by the demand from real applications. For example, when a subject’s face can only be acquired at night, the NIR or IR imaging might be the only modality for acquiring a useful face image of the subject. Another example is that no imaging system was available to capture the face image of a suspect during a criminal act. In this case a forensic sketch, drawn by a police artist based on a verbal description provided by a witness or the victim, is likely to be the only available source of a face of the suspect. Using the sketch to search a large database of mug-shot face photos is also a heterogeneous face recognition problem. Thus it is interesting to study the HFR as a relatively new topic in biometrics. In this article, several specific HFR problems are presented, and various approaches are described to address the heterogeneous face matching problems. Some future research directions are discussed as well to advance...
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...Week 3: Case Analysis Assignment: Apple Inc. Geraldo Moraes DeVry University BUSN-412 Business Policy Professor Raef Assaf CASE ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT: APPLE INC. Apple Inc. designs, makes, and markets mobile communication and media gadgets, PCs, convenient advanced music players, and offers a mixed bag of related programming, administrations, peripherals, organizing arrangements, and outsider computerized substance and applications (Dess, G., Lumpkin, G., & Eisner, A. 2012). Its items and administrations incorporate iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, iPod, Apple TV, an arrangement of customer and expert programming applications, the iOS and OS X working frameworks, iCloud, and frill, administration and bolster offerings. According to the case study, Apple Computer was established in Mountain View, California, on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Jobs was the visionary and advertiser, Wozniak was the specialized virtuoso, and A. C. "Mike" Markkula Jr., who had joined the group a while prior, was the businessperson (Dess, G., Lumpkin, G., & Eisner, A. 2012). Employments set the mission of engaging people, one person, one PC, and doing as such with polish of configuration and savage tender loving care. In 1977 the first form of the Apple II turned into the first PC standard individuals could utilize right out of the case, and its moment achievement in the home market brought on a processing upheaval, basically making the PC business. By 1980 Apple was the business...
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