Nearly a decade ago, lighting struck a Philips microchip plant in New Mexico, causing a fire that contaminated millions of mobile phone chips. Among Philips’ biggest customers were Nokia and Ericsson, the mobile phone manufacturers, but each reacted differently to the disaster. Nokia’s supply-chain management strategy allowed it to switch suppliers quickly; it even re-engineered some of its phones to accept both American and Japanese chips, which meant its production line was relatively unaffected
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Apple Inc Strategic Recommendations for the Future Apple Inc is a globally respected business organisation and is an acknowledged pioneer in its areas of operations in the technology sector. Primarily a manufacturer and marketer of personal computers and peripherals, software and networking solutions, the company’s product line includes the Macintosh range of desktop and notebook PCs, the Mac OS X operating system, the IPod digital music player, the ITunes music store, the IPhone, the IPad tablet
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supported and helped in every way newly build corporations by actually creating hothouse conditions to them and eliminating the competition. Samsung’s founder managed to get close to government circles and this provided unlimited opportunities for growth and expansion. In 1970 Samsung enters the semiconductor market, seeing the prospects of this trend and the rapid development
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pursue new technologies and innovations. This is important because research and development requires large amounts of investments. Another is that existing RIM customers will continue to be loyal to the Blackberry brand regardless of new marketing strategies and products. This assumption is made so that market shares can only grow. RIM has the ability to develop new types of products. SWOT ANALYSIS Strengths High customer loyalty to the Blackberry line creates a long lasting business
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communications devices industry is set for a hyper growth spurt. By 2020, Morgan Stanley predicts that the number of mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, car electronics, etc.) could easily top 10 billion units. Mobile data traffic nearly tripled in 2010 due to usage of smart connected devices and significant progress in mobile network technology, and is driving revenue growth. Yet, Cisco expects it to increase another 26-fold by 2015, at a compound annual growth rate of 92 percent. Total annual sales for
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9-710-429 REV: MAY 2, 2011 JUAN ALCÁCER TARUN KHANNA MARY FUREY RAKEEN MABUD Emerging Nokia? It was December of 2009 and D. Shivakumar, the Managing Director of Nokia India was catching up over coffee with Colin Giles, his counterpart in the China office, and Chris Braam, who was in charge of operations in the Middle East and Africa. The gathering was somewhat celebratory in nature: Giles had recently been promoted to global head of sales. Before Giles left his Greater China market
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1. Problem Even though Nokia’s strategy in emerging markets has been successful –making the company the market leader in India and China with market shares of 60% and 40% respectively– the company’s position in the developed markets has been deteriorating. Nokia used to lead the mobile phone market in North America and Europe in the 90s and early 2000’s and now the company is losing share mainly to Apple, Samsung and RIM. At the end of 2009 market share in the US dropped from 33% in 2002 to 10%;
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Business 200W – Business Research and Communication Individual Case Analysis Apple Inc. SWOT Analysis Company Overview Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation which focuses on designing and manufacturing technology products such as consumer electronics, personal computers and software. Apple Computer, Inc. was established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976 and incorporated on January 3, 1977 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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and benefits of our strategic partnership with Microsoft to combine complementary assets and expertise to form a global mobile ecosystem and to adopt Windows Phone as our primary smartphone platform; B) the timing and expected benefits of our new strategy, including expected operational and financial benefits and targets as well as changes in leadership and operational structure; C) the timing of the deliveries of our products and services; D) our ability to innovate, develop, execute and commercialize
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Strategic Management Apple & Nokia Case Analysis 1. Table of Contents 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF APPLE AND NOKIA CASE 2 2.0 QUESTION 1 3 2.1 Competitive analysis of Apple and Nokia – who is stronger? 3 2.1.1 Competitive Analysis 3 2.1.1.1 SWOT Analysis 5 1.1.1 Strengths of Apple 6 2.1.1.2 Value Chain Analysis 9 2.1.1.3 Resourced Base View Tool 11 3.0 QUESTION 2 14 3.1 PESTEL analysis tool 15 3.2 Porter’s
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