...STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY Case Analysis; Apple Computer Neslihan ARUC D03433109 Instructor: Professor FRANK OWARISH Apple Computer, Inc., is a major manufacturer of personal computers with headquarters in Cupertino, California. Apple designs, produces, and sells personal computer systems for use in business, education, government, and the home. We have known that apple products are sold most of the countries and also apple include personal computers, monitors, software, printers, scanners, and networking products. Apple was established on April 1 1976 by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and S. Wozniak. Steve Jobs and S. Wozniak had designed and built in Jobs's garage in Los Altos California. They scrapped their plan to sell the board alone when Jobs's first sales call yielded an order for 50 units. They were sold. Apple has been in the USA and world marketplace long period of time and today it is one of the leaders in technology market in the USA and in the world. Some even say “ Apple is mostly Steven Jobs life rather than a company’s history “ During Apple’s history almost most of the time Steven Jobs name is associated with turning points for Apple. For example in the very beginning Jobs and Wozniak created Apple I in 1975 and the sales were good. Later on Apple II was produced in 1977 and we saw that the company made $3 million. It is clear that Apple since the very beginning has always been working in creating and inventing...
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...Over the past thirty years Apple’s has had a multitude up of and downs and successes and failures. Throughout this time they have learned from their failures and created new, cutting edge, and innovative technology. Apple is a success story that uses creativity to produce new and innovative products. Failure is not bad as long as lessons are learned and the same mistakes don’t continue to occur producing failed products. Apple follows business rules and principles that have lead them to the point in the business world today as a leading business corporation within the innovative, always changing, technological business. Chris Morrison, with CBS Money watch points out the four most important principles that Apple follows. These principles are 1. Don’t Follow Your Customers; Lead Them 2. Temper Engineering With Art 3. Focus on the Few to Sell to the Many 4. Be Your Own Toughest Critic Other companies and businesses could follow similar principles to stay on top of the ever changing technological advances. These advances are being made based on the demands and needs of consumers. We have become very dependent upon technology to function day to day and are always looking for new technology that may make help life less hectic. Apple has been able to take technology to the next level providing new products for the customer that may be unthinkable to the consumer prior to seeing and reviewing the new item. The changes and advances in technology is driven by our culture...
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...Running head: Case 1 Apple Computer Case 1 Apple Computer Strategic Management of Technology (TM 583) Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the ipod, iphone and ipad.Apple rightly gets credit for building exceptional hardware and software. Even more impressive, however, is how Apple has steadfastly refused to get drawn into markets that it chooses not to service, even when would-be customers are begging to buy. A major key to Apple's continued success is its ability to keep pushing the boundaries of innovation above and beyond it’s competitors. No one other than Apple’s CEO, President and the Chief Financial Office can truly speak on the real success and failures of Apple. The company went through tremendous changes and saw the world of technology advance. They made a power effort and stepped into the the improvement and competitive phase of producing a product that will crush the competitor. The first success was when Steve Jobs became the interim CEO and began restructuring the company's product line in 1997. About a year later Apple introduced a new all-in-one computer reminiscent of the Macintosh, success was in the process of turning the company around. After opening stores in California and Virginia the company introduced the ipod, which spring board it revenue...
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...Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is a company known primarily for its BlackBerry devices and e-mail services. Throughout the early years of its career, RIM has faced many patent infringement suits regarding their wireless devices but one of them that lasted from 2001-2006 stands out among the herd. This specific case was the one between NTP (New Technologies Products) owner Mr. Campana and RIM’s owner Mr. Lazaridis over wireless e-mail patents. This ongoing battle between companies could have ended as soon as it began, but RIM’s actions dug them into a financial hole and put their customers in a state of panic. Research in Motion was founded in 1984 in Waterloo, Ontario by Mike Lazaridis who always had a passion for inventing (International Directory of Company Histories). Lazaridis from the early age of 8 gravitated toward technology constructing a pendulum clock out of Legos and in high school, built a working computer (Mckenna, Waldie, & Avery). Even in college he was focused and seemed mature for his years. He eventually dropped out of college, however, and started RIM with the backing of friends and family. Their first contract came from General Motors of Canada and for years after that moved from contract to contract. In the early 90’s, RIM became interested in digital wireless devices when Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc, a paging and cellular telephone operator, contracted with them (International Directory of Company Histories). From this point on, RIM...
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...Developing the World’s Cheapest Car Person, Keith E. 4823 Mays Ave. Moraine, OH 45439 keperson21@aol.com 937.479.3179 TM 583 Strategic Management of Technological Innovation Trent Turner June 2011 Company Profile Tata Motors Limited is India’s largest automobile company. In the years of 2008-09, the company produced over USD 14 billion in consolidated revenues. Tata is now the leader in leader in commercial vehicles in each segment. The company also boasts of producing the top three passenger vehicles with winning products in the compact, midsize car and utility vehicle segments. Tata is the fourth largest truck manufacturer and second largest bus manufacturer in the world. Established in 1945, the company now employs 24,000 people, all led by one vision. A strategic alliance with Fiat in 2005 has allowed Tata Motors to set up an industrial joint venture with Fiat Group Automobiles to produce both Fiat and Tata cars and Fiat Power trains. A recent plant has been established at Sanand. The company also distributes and markets Fiat brand cars in India. Now seen as an international automobile company, Tata Motors was the first company from India’s engineering sector to be listed in the New York Stock Exchange in September of 2004. The company has expanded its operations to parts of the United Kingdom, South Korea, Thailand and Spain. The operations include Jaguar and Land Rover, two of Britain’s iconic brands that were acquired in 208. In 2004 the company had previously acquired...
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...Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): Strategic Plan for Managing Technological Innovation TM 583 – Section C Professor Edmead 8/21/10 Section 1 – Strategy TCO F – Given an organizational and industry context, identify and suggest a deployment strategy that will facilitate the success of a technologically-driven organization. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), founded 1968, in Sunnyvale, California is a producer of Central Processing Units (CPUs), the main computing component in modern computers. AMD’s primary capability is the design and engineering of consumer, workstation, and server CPUs. Initially, AMD competed with Intel by reverse-engineering the original 8080 processors and then creating their own x386 variant, but a lack of funding stymied sustained, long-term innovation (Valich 2008). In many ways, this scenario is quite indicative of the role AMD has played throughout its history: the underdog. They leveraged their core competencies of microprocessor engineering by assimilating the designs and processes of competitors and then building upon that knowledge to create profitable (usually) products and services. However, AMD has experienced PR missteps (like the Phenom I TLB bug debacle on an already late-to-market product) from which they have struggled to recover. In order to re-gain the confidence of partners, suppliers, and consumers, AMD must prove, once again, that it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. 2 Looking toward...
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...Finders [+] Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards 1986 23 CHC NL 7 4 .636 5.05 16 16 0 1 1 0 87.1 107 52 49 10 42 1 45 3 3 3 395 80 1.706 11.0 1.0 4.3 4.6 1.07 1987 24 CHC NL 12 15 .444 5.10 35 33 1 1 0 0 201.0 210 127 114 28 97 9 147 5 2 11 899 83 1.527 9.4 1.3 4.3 6.6 1.52 1988 25 CHC NL 9 15 .375 3.48 34 30 1 3 1 0 202.0 212 84 78 20 55 7 121 4 0 4 855 105 1.322 9.4 0.9 2.5 5.4 2.20 1989 26 TEX AL 4 9 .308 4.86 15 15 0 1 0 0 76.0 84 51 41 10 33 0 44 2 0 1 337 82 1.539 9.9 1.2 3.9 5.2 1.33 1990 27 TEX AL 2 6 .250 4.66 33 10 6 1 0 0 102.1 115 59 53 6 39 4 58 4 0 1 447 85 1.505 10.1 0.5 3.4 5.1 1.49 1991 28 STL NL 0 5 .000 5.74 8 7 1 0 0 0 31.1 38 21 20 5 16 0 20 1 1 2 142 65 1.723 10.9 1.4 4.6 5.7 1.25 1993 30 BAL AL 12 9 .571 3.43 25 25 0 3 1 0 152.0 154 63 58 11 38 2 90 6 1 1 630 130 1.263 9.1 0.7 2.3 5.3 2.37 1994 31 BAL AL 5 7 .417 4.77 23 23 0 0 0 0 149.0 158 81 79 23 38 3 87 2 0 1 631 105 1.315 9.5 1.4 2.3 5.3 2.29 1995 32 BAL AL 8 6 .571 5.21 27 18 3 0 0 0 115.2 117 70 67 18 30 0 65 3 0 0 483 92 1.271 9.1 1.4 2.3 5.1 2.17 1996 33 TOT AL 13 3 .813 3.98 34 21 1 0 0 0 160.2 177 86 71 23 46 5 79 2 1 3 703 126 1.388 9.9 1.3 2.6 4.4 1.72 1996 33 BOS AL 7 1 .875 4.50 23 10 1 0 0 0 90.0 111 50 45 14 27 2 50 1 1 2 405 113 1.533 11.1 1.4 2.7 5.0 1.85 1996 33 SEA AL 6 2 .750 3.31 11 11 0 0 0 0 70.2 66 36 26 9 19 3 29 1 0 1 298 150 1.203 8.4 1.1 2.4 3.7 1.53 1997 34 SEA...
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...Market Potential Analysis – A study of the Cosmetics Industry in the ABC Islands Master Thesis within Business Administration Author: Danny Reijntjes Ryan Wagijo Tutor: Jönköping Desalegn Abraha May 2012 Master Thesis within Business Administration Title: Market Potential Analysis – A study of the Cosmetics Industry in the ABC Islands Authors: Danny Reijntjes & Ryan Wagijo Tutor: Desalegn Abraha Date: 2012-05-14 Subject terms: Market potential, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Cosmetics. Abstract Background: The main aim of the research is to focus on the market potential of the cosmetic brands in the market of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao (ABC islands). These islands are located in the Caribbean Sea in front of the coast of South-America. Before starting to expand, international companies first search for potential suitable markets to invest in. This thesis attempts to find out if there is a potential market for the cosmetic products of the companies on the ABCislands. The purpose of the Master thesis is to find out if there is a potential market for new cosmetic products on the ABC islands. To achieve the purpose, the research addresses the market potential analysis. The market of Aruba and Curacao offer a great number of potential clients and a good future prospect. These findings are also supported by research that was conducted in 2007 by the Icongrouponline. Majority of the consumers on the islands are willing to try new professional cosmetics products. Additionally, the...
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...miltrimas235Department of the Army Pamphlet 738–751 Logistics Management Functional Users Manual for the Army Maintenance Management System— Aviation (TAMMS-A) Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC 15 March 1999 UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY of CHANGE DA PAM 738–751 Functional Users Manual for the Army Maintenance Management System— Aviation (TAMMS-A) This revision-o o o Adds an Aircraft Transfer Decision Table (chap 1). Converts the removal/achievement codes back to failure codes (chap 1). Adds procedures for the Unit Level Logistics System-Aviation (chaps 1, 2, 3, and 4). Introduces DA Form 2408-14-1 (Uncorrected Fault Record Aircraft) (chap 2). DA Form 2408-14 (Uncorrected Fault Record) will no longer be used for aviation equipment. Incorporates Standard Army Maintenance System procedures (chap 3). Adds procedures for documentation of component repair at Aviation Intermediate Maintenance and depot levels of maintenance (chap 3). Adds phase maintenance and periodic inspection documentation procedures (chap 3). Adds information on migrating automated DA Form 2410 (Component Removal and Repair/Overhaul Record) data (chap 3). Changes DA Form 2410 and instructions. Therefore, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command’s Guide/Workbook for the DA Form 2410, The Army Maintenance Management System Aviation (TAMMS-A), October 1992, is obsolete (chap 3). Adds instructions for DA Form 2408-16 (Aircraft Component Historical Record) and DA Form 2410 to track aircraft...
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...Combating Web Spam with TrustRank Zolt´ n Gy¨ ngyi a o Stanford University Computer Science Department Stanford, CA 94305 zoltan@cs.stanford.edu Hector Garcia-Molina Stanford University Computer Science Department Stanford, CA 94305 hector@cs.stanford.edu Jan Pedersen Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 jpederse@yahoo-inc.com Abstract Web spam pages use various techniques to achieve higher-than-deserved rankings in a search engine’s results. While human experts can identify spam, it is too expensive to manually evaluate a large number of pages. Instead, we propose techniques to semi-automatically separate reputable, good pages from spam. We first select a small set of seed pages to be evaluated by an expert. Once we manually identify the reputable seed pages, we use the link structure of the web to discover other pages that are likely to be good. In this paper we discuss possible ways to implement the seed selection and the discovery of good pages. We present results of experiments run on the World Wide Web indexed by AltaVista and evaluate the performance of our techniques. Our results show that we can effectively filter out spam from a significant fraction of the web, based on a good seed set of less than 200 sites. creation of a large number of bogus web pages, all pointing to a single target page. Since many search engines take into account the number of incoming links in ranking pages, the rank of the target page is likely to increase, and appear...
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...INFORME TÉCNICO N° 02 - Febrero 2012 Producción Nacional: 2011 El INEI informa que la producción nacional durante el año 2011 logró un crecimiento de 6,92%, explicado por el comportamiento favorable de casi todos los sectores, con excepción del sector minería, contabilizando 13 años de crecimiento sostenido. El comportamiento positivo de la actividad económica del país se sustentó en el desempeño favorable de la demanda interna que se refleja en el aumento de las ventas al por menor a los hogares en 10,34% y la mayor importación de bienes de consumo en 14,52%, la venta de autos ligeros 26,00% y el consumo del gobierno en 7,66%. Asimismo, creció la importación de bienes de capital y materiales para la construcción en 24,87%, y la inversión en construcción en 3,43%. Igualmente, por la demanda externa, reflejada en las mayores exportaciones, que lograron un nivel récord histórico de US$ 46 268 millones, que en términos reales se traducen en un crecimiento de 13,15%, tanto de productos tradicionales (9,49%), como no tradicionales (18,55%). Entre los productos tradicionales destacan los mayores envíos al exterior de productos mineros (plomo, oro, hierro y cobre), pesqueros (harina y aceite de pescado), agrícolas (algodón y café) y petróleo y gas natural. De modo similar, entre las ventas externas de productos no tradicionales figuran los agrícolas, textiles, pesqueros, químicos, de metal mecánica, sidero-metalúrgicos y mineros no metálicos Cuadro Nº1 Evolución del Índice...
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...Essays Essays Part II. 2, 2.] Part II. 2, 2.] Essays The Project Gutenberg EBook of Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Essays Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Editor: Edna H. L. Turpin Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16643] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ESSAYS *** 1 Essays Produced by Curtis A. Weyant , Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ESSAYS BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON Merrill's English Texts SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY EDNA H.L. TURPIN, AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY," "CLASSIC FABLES," "FAMOUS PAINTERS," ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES E. MERRILL CO. 1907 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LIFE OF EMERSON CRITICAL OPINIONS CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR COMPENSATION SELF RELIANCE FRIENDSHIP HEROISM MANNERS GIFTS NATURE SHAKESPEARE; OR, THE POET PRUDENCE CIRCLES NOTES PUBLISHERS' NOTE Merrill's English Texts 2 Essays 3 This series of books will include in complete editions those masterpieces of English Literature that are best adapted for the use of schools and colleges. The editors of the several volumes will...
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...579 Atomic force microscopy and other scanning probe microscopies Helen G Hansma and Lía Pietrasanta The highlight of the past year is the unfolding and refolding of the muscle protein titin in the atomic force microscope. A related highlight in the intersection between experiment and theory is a recent review of the effects of molecular forces on biochemical kinetics. Other advances in scanning probe microscopy include entropic brushes, molecular sandwiches and applications of atomic force microscopy to gene therapy. Address Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 1998, 2:579–584 http://biomednet.com/elecref/1367593100200579 © Current Biology Ltd ISSN 1367-5931 Abbreviations AFM atomic force microscopy/microscope SFM scanning force microscopy/microscope SICM scanning ion conductance microscopy/microscope SPM scanning probe microscopy/microscope STM scanning tunneling microscopy/microscope A new journal, Probe Microscopy, was launched in 1997 as a forum specifically devoted to the science and technology of SPM. AFM and SFM have been also newsworthy items in Science and Nature in the past year [14••,15•–17•,18••,19]. An introduction to AFM is covered well in a recent issue of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, which describes and illustrates the design and mode of operation of AFM [4••]. The AFM images sample surfaces by raster-scanning a sharp tip back and forth over the surface. The tip is on...
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...Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases 1 Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases Project Gutenberg's Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, by Greenville Kleiser This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English Author: Greenville Kleiser Release Date: May 10, 2006 [EBook #18362] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIFTEEN THOUSAND USEFUL PHRASES *** Produced by Don Kostuch [Transcriber's Notes] Original "misspellings" such as "fulness" are unchanged. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases Unfamiliar (to me) words are defined on the right side of the page in square brackets. For example: abstemious diet [abstemious = Eating and drinking in moderation.] The blandness of contemporary (2006) speech would be relieved by the injection of some of these gems: "phraseological quagmire" "Windy speech which hits all around the mark like a drunken carpenter." [End Transcriber's Notes] BY GRENVILLE KLEISER HOW TO BUILD MENTAL POWER...
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...Annual Report 2010 Axiata Group Berhad Axiata Centre 9 Jalan Stesen Sentral 5 Kuala Lumpur Sentral 50470 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (242188-H) Website: www.axiata.com This publication has been printed on recycled material. principled collaborative optimistic excellence local relevance innovation uncompromising affordable connectivity innovative technology developing world class talent Our goal is to advance Asia via telecommunications and technology. The road ahead is exciting and full of possibilities. In the years to come, we at Axiata, hope to explore new frontiers of communications and to get more people connected across Asia and beyond. To move ahead towards a better, brighter future. Axiata Group Berhad (242188-H) Corporate inForMation BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman Non-Independent Non-Executive Director tan sri dato’ aZMan HJ. MoKHtar Managing Director/President & Group Chief Executive Officer Independent Non-Executive Director JUan VillalonGa naVarro Independent Non-Executive Director dato’ sri JaMalUdin iBraHiM Independent Non-Executive Director daVid laU nai peK Independent Non-Executive Director tan sri GHaZZali sHeiKH aBdUl KHalid Senior Independent Non-Executive Director MUHaMad CHatiB Basri Non-Independent Non-Executive Director datUK aZZat KaMalUdin dr. Farid MoHaMed sani GROUP COMPANY SECRETARY AUDITORS sUrYani HUssein ls0009277 REGISTERED OFFICE Level 5, Axiata Centre...
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