Introduction In 1976, a couple of college dropouts, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, founded Apple Computer. Working out of the Jobs family garage they built a computer circuit board that they named the Apple I. Jobs made it Apple’s mission to bring an easy to use computer to market and in 1978 introduced the Apple II, which was a relatively simple machine that people could use out of the box. Apple quickly became the industry leader, until IBM entered the PC market in 1981, which lead to Apple fundamentally
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Apple (Computer) Inc. Whither the MAC? | Case Study Analysis | Strategic Analysis in terms of Capabilities Analysis & Five Force Model | Submitted by : Muhammad Saad Dasti Section B | 1. Prepare a Five Forces Analysis of the personal computer industry. (Think of your traditional Windows based PC.) How attractive is this industry? In order to properly identify
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HP’s founders understood the value of innovation. The company succeeded, in part, by empowering small teams of developers to create innovative solutions. A team of 10 people collaborating with Canon created the revolutionary LaserJet printer. Six engineers designed HP’s successful blade server. During those years, HP looked a lot more like Apple and Google. The split will create two different companies within a large organisation that is lead by the same CEO, HP Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
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Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction to Company 4 Organization Culture 5 IBMers – Values and Ethics 9 Value 9 Ethics & Business conduct 9 Culture @ IBM 10 About IBM Culture Traits 10 Diversity 10 People orientation and Team Orientation - Freedom & Responsibility 11 Outcome Orientation - Context, not Control 12 Knowledge sharing - High Collaboration using technology 12 Risk Averse to Risk Taking 12 Innovation - Learn from mistakes (or near Mistakes) 13 Aggressiveness for duties
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through five segments: Global Technology Services, Global Business Services, Systems and Technology Group, Software, and Global Financing, IBM is the world's largest computer company and systems integrator. After selling its PC company division to Lenovo in 2005, IBM concentrated its business operations on providing infrastructure, hosting and consulting services. The company employs over 399,400 employees worldwide and serves clients in 170 countries. In 2009, IBM had annual revenues of USD 95.8
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Apple PC CASe Analysis Strategic profile and Case Analysis The industry has really taken off since the creation of the first PC and continues to grow rapidly especially with emergence of the Portable PC or Laptop. Profits margins have continued rise steadily every year (Appendix II). Apple is a very successful company thanks to the strong leadership of Steve jobs and their innovation and diversity. However they are not doing as well in the PC industry and have only 4.2% of the world market
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strategic group for Apple http://www.scribd.com/doc/24134877/Strategic-Analysis-of-Apple-Inc-Brian-Masi Focus on differentiated lifestyle branding: Apple has successfully developed adifferentiated lifestyle brand and must continue to build on this foundation whileresisting pressure to move to the middle to directly compete with Dell and HP. Design innovation: Put additional emphasis on design development with internalresource allocation to continue to lead the industry in design. Research
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low degree of differentiation and there is little innovation taking place in this area, for which reason buyers are sensitive to price levels and could easily transfer from one supplier to another. Apple’s major competitors in this market include Lenovo, Nokia, and Samsung (GCEIP, 2014; CEIPUK, 2014). Music and Video Industry The bargaining power of buyers is moderate. As with the communications equipment industry, there are many buyers in this market, thus reducing their bargaining power. Offsetting
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Best Practices and Recommendations: Tablet Selection for Use by Healthcare Practitioners White Paper Date: April 16, 2016 Contents * Overview and Background * Criteria for Consideration * Operating Systems * Security, Legal and Regulatory * Hardware * Recommendation Overview and Background A large, local hospital has requested consulting assistance with a technical research and specification project related to the selection of a tablet device for use in their
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1 The volatility and evolution of computer industry Starting from 1976, Apple computer created the personal computer (PC). After IBM transformed the PC from proprietary systems into open structure, PC has been dominated by Wintel (Windows + Intel) structure. Apple insists in adopting proprietary and niche market strategies made them keep losing market share till less than 3% in 2001. However, its strategy with ignoring the market trends makes it lose the market after years. 1.1 Industrial
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