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Organizational Dynamics (2013) 42, 92—99 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/orgdyn Quantum Strategy at Apple Inc Loizos Heracleous Over the last 15 years, Apple Inc has revolutionized the personal electronics, telecom, computer and media industries through a string of blockbuster products that offer unique, designer, integrated customer experiences. In the process, the company has helped to accelerate the blurring of industry boundaries
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use of structure, control, and culture in implementing a single-business firm’s generic business strategy. 4. Discuss the use of restructuring and reengineering in improving the performance of a single-business firm. OPENING CASE: STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION AT DELL COMPUTER Dell Computer grew rapidly from its founding as one-person, dorm-room operation in 1984. As the company has grown, Dell’s structure, control systems, and culture has changed to keep the firm on track to reaching
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PIGGLY WIGGLY : A SUPERMARKET FRANCHISING GIANT PIGGLY WIGGLY (WWW.PIGGLYWIGGLY.COM) is a franchisor with over 6000 supermarket units that span the southern states from Louisiana to north Carolina. In addition, Piggly Wiggly franchises about 20 stores in Wisconsin that are owned and operated by fresh brands (www.freshbrands.com) , a wholesalers that uses the fresh brands name. Any independent supermarket can become a Piggly Wiggly franchisee by signing a franchise agreement and paying a percentage
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main accounting principles. A real world example of the use of cookie jar reserves is the computer company Dell. In 2010, they paid a penalty to the SEC of $100 million dollars due to their using of cookie jar reserves. To establish their reserves, Dell did not disclose payments from Intel which were paid in order to maintain exclusive use of their microprocessors. When times were tough, Dell drew on these reserves. At one point, these reserves made up more than 70% of their quarterly earnings (Investopedia)
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and the intermediaries w h o have facilitated them, have generally come to be known as distribution channels. For most marketing decision makers, dealing with the channel for a product or service ranks as one of the key marketing quandaries. In many cases, despite what the textbooks suggest, there is frequently no real decision as to "who" should constitute the channel; rather, the question is how best to deal with the incumbent channel. Marketing channel decisions are critical also because they intimately
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Strategy & Technology a gallaugher.com chapter provided free to faculty & students for non-commercial use © Copyright 1997-2008, John M. Gallaugher, Ph.D. – for more info see: http://www.gallaugher.com/chapters.html Last modified: Sept. 13, 2008 Note: this is an earlier version of the chapter. All chapters updated after July 2009 are now hosted (and still free) at http://www.flatworldknowledge.com. For details see the ‘Courseware’ section of http://gallaugher.com INTRODUCTION Managers
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__________________ The contents herein are subject to change without notice. © 2010 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly prohibited. Trademarks used in this manual: Alienware®, AlienFX®, and the AlienHead logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Alienware Corporation; Dell™ is a trademark of Dell Inc.; Microsoft®, Windows®, and the Windows start button logo are either trademarks
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COURSE: MKT. 2500*08 Semester: Spring 2010 Professor: Prof. Vaccaro Company Name: Lenovo Group Limited STUDENT NAME& EMAIL& PHONE #: LENOVO CASE PAPER For Principles of Marketing MKT. 2500 With Citations & References Table of Contents I. Background a. The Industry b. The Company c. Product/Services d. Target Market II. Key Issues/Problems III. Alternative Solutions a. Alternative #1 b. Alternative #2 c. Alternative #3 IV. Key
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comparison to their netbook cousins, but they can operate with a lot more applications that are powerful. They are twice the weight, have larger screens and more effective CPUs, but their battery life struggles to attain even a whopping 3 hours in some cases. These are
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