Responsibilities Apple Inc. is considered the world’s most admired company in the world. It holds this position in many categories, according to Fortune Magazine. These categories include innovation, people management, the use of assets, financial soundness, social responsibility, and many more. ("World’s Most Admired Companies," 2012) Needless to say, Apple Inc. is doing extremely well, and is projected to beat its current predictions on the sales of its new IPhone and IPad. Apple is at the top of
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Apple Inc. specialises in development, design and marketing of computers, portable-digital music players and other didgital devices including iPad’s and mobile devices (IPhone). Apple Inc. are also involved in selling multiple supporting software, digital content, third party applications, networking software and services. Apple Inc. predominantly operate from their U.S headquarters in Cupertino, California and involves 72,800 employees (Forbes, 2013). Revenue for APPL in 2013 has risen from $155
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Computers 1a) – Globalization ++ * Digitalization ++ * Culture in Asia, Europe & America +++ * Specialized programmers (New market) - * Technology ++ * Security - Explanations: 1: World trade 2: Intranet 3: People can’t live without their phone 4: Uprising market (job offers) 5: Advanced & more complicated hardware 6: More information is on the internet and needs to be secured 2) Company: Microsoft 2a) – Windows 8 +++ * Competitors (apple) + * Windows
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to revamp/upgrade the healthcare insurance records with new electronic projects from conversion of data, to creation of new health and insurance records and processing of claims and sales of insurances to the management of all healthcare data. Globalization plays an important aspect in the sense that the opportunity to obtain this large contract managing all the American healthcare coverage information is not restricted only to U.S. companies, but to international companies as well. Nasscom, an Indian
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the world has been moving at a faster rate with a whole rage of new innovation ideas, development, etc.The organizational sectors have becoming more dependent upon professional managers, who can bring success to an organization. Issues such as globalization and decentralization add to the need for organizations to hire flexible managers capable of leading. That is why the role of mangers have gone from simplicity to complexity, the managers roles have believed to have expanded gradually in time and
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Apple Corporation: Strategy Analysis Executive summary Apple Corporation continues to be the worlds most admired company because of its huge financial base, ability to attract and retain customers, ability to innovate and to produce technologically superior products. The company’s strategy as found in this report is built around creativity and innovation. Its capabilities in terms of resources and technology have made the company to produce technologically advanced products. Despite the huge
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for everyone to see; these are small affects of globalization in life. Globalization integrates economy and cultures of different regions of the world through trading, telecommunication, technology, human migration, and capital flows. Incentive of the integration may be economic, political, cultural, technological or humanitarian. George Ritzer’s invented term, McDonaldization, is a subset of the globalization phenomenon. Ritzer compares globalization with characteristic of a fast-food restaurant
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say that the consumers are the ones who would benefit, as long as they can decide which tablet to purchase since competitors will introduce competitive prices (Amazon's kindle fire, a new player in the tablet wars 2011) 2. Over the next five years, Apple will be the top leaders in the new technologies because of they create the best computing products in the history. Some people will be intrigued by the Kindle Fire and price, but consumers know that the iPad is more efficient and more reliable since
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GLOBAL ETHICS: The growing trend of globalization and liberalization of world trade has resulted in emergence of many Multinational Corporations that seek to explore new markets, increase sales and profits. Expanding to overseas markets is every home-based business’ desire in the long run; most companies pounce on the opportunity as soon as it presents itself. Internationalization however poses business challenges in product selection, marketing and ethical issues. Companies e.g. Daewoo that expanded
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intensity. For this to happen the industry must be a high threat which bring the fight to the competitive intensity and make it harder for the industry in market to make business because of barriers that are involve make it harder for them. For example, Apple has a strong brand image, innovation and customer service so this make other industry difficult for new entrant to compete against.so for
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