Apple’s Business Models Analysis and Suggestion with Web 2.0 Strategy Contents 1. Abstract 3 2. Apple’s Business Model 4 2.1. Elements of successful business model 4 2.2. Apple’s innovation on its business model 4 2.2.1. Customer Value Innovation 4 2.2.2. Profit Pattern Innovation 5 3. Challenges Analysis 6 3.1. Apple’s challenges 6 3.2. Porter’s Five Force Model analysis 6 3.2.1. Threat of new entrants 7 3.2.2. Threat of substitute products or services 7 3
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The competitive landscape in the Smartphone industry has changed significantly since the launch of the iPhone in 2007. Apple’s major rivals in the industry were RIM (Blackberry), Nokia, Palm and HTC in the initial launch phase. However, over the years RIM & Nokia have been devolved into being fringe players and new competitors have evolved. Samsung is now Apple’s largest competitors in the Smartphone category while Nokia & RIM have failed to keep up with the dynamics of the marketplace.
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Apple Inc. External Analysis Asia Think Different. OVERVIEW Goals of an external analysis to help a company better understand its position against the other players in the industry. An external audit is not to create a laundry list, but to help identify key variables that offer actionable responses (Fred David), and further eliminate surprises by anticipating such opportunities and threats. Apple Inc., is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops, manufactures and
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Course: Retail Management Program: International Exchange Program Part 1 1. When a consumer dines at an upscale restaurant, what factors determine whether the consumer feels that he or she got a fair value? How does the perception of value differ when that same consumer shops at a fast-food restaurant? Taking the example of an upscale restaurant the customers takes several aspects into consideration regarding a fair value. Firstly, it is more about the quality than the quantity
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Table of Contents 1 Executive Summary 2 CSR Background 2.1 Definition of CSR 2.2 Evolution of CSR 2.3 Emergence of CSR 3 Literature Review 3.1 Carroll's CSR Pyramid 3.2 Purpose of the firm and how that shapes views on CSR 3.3 Arguments for and against CSR 3.3.1 Arguments Against 3.3.2 Arguments For 3.3.3 Summary of the key debates 4 Methodology 5 CSR at Apple Inc. 5.1 Apple's profile 5.2 Reasons to engage in CSR 5.3 CSR policies at Apple Inc. 5.4 Type of CSR approach taken by
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1. Apple did better in its iPod business than it did in its PC business. Explain why. Justify your answer through the application of industry analysis and other strategy concepts discussed in this course. In the early years, Apple focused on manufacturing low cost computers, working together with IBM, cooperating with Novell and Intel to create a new operating system that run on Intel platform. However, these projects had not achieved success until Steve Jobs became the CEO and refocused the original
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Poor working conditions have been a persistent problem for centuries. Over the last 50 years, large corporations from the United States have moved a large portion of their factories overseas to circumvent the strict working regulations within the United States. The third world countries such as india, Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, South Korea, and Taiwan provide access to readily abundant cheap labor. These corporations could now reap the benefit of the United States consumer market, while keeping
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1 Introduction "No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's.” This quote of Thomas L. Friedman, a well-known US-American foreign affairs and globalization expert, shows two of the main results of globalization: Companies that are becoming more international and a world in which the countries start cooperating more and more instead of fighting wars. People start in-teracting borderlessly and politicians and newspapers mention the “world
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how to grow its presence in the country? However, China is not simply seen as a potential growth market for Apple products. The country often is regarded as the company's main production base. Just after a horrific rash of worker suicides at the Foxconn factory complex outside of Hong Kong in 2010, a monologist named Mike Daisey launched a one-man show called "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”. If Apple can cut costs by having machines made in China then that is up to Apple. If China can
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Introduction Danshui was a contract manufacturer that assembled electronic products located in Southern China. Danshui has a contract to assemble 2.4 million iPhones within the period from 1st June 2010 to 31st May 2011 and their current production is only 180,000 units per month compared to planned production is 200,000 units. Danshui is using semiskilled labor for less than 1 dollar an hour and assembly line technique. Due to high demand of IPhone 4, Apple had contracted with Danshui to assemble
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