What Business Should do to Restore Competitiveness by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin I. Summary The article by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, titled What Business Should do to Restore Competitiveness, revolves around the idea that American business and America as a whole are losing their global competiveness. With this premise, the authors shared a key perspective or idea which combined two present believes in that country. The perspective they provided is that businesses can and should enhance
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operators and in building and operating state wide area networks for governments (erstwhile supplier for the governments of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab). The company has also represented international mobile manufactures like Alcatel, Nokia, Samsung and Virgin in India either as regional or national distribution partners. The Jaina Group is a reputed distribution house with interests in telecom and consumer durables. The company is currently the national distribution partner for Motorola and
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From Followers to Market Leaders: Asian Electronics Firms in the Global Economy Henry Wai-chung Yeung Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 (Tel: 65-6516 6810; Fax: 65-6777 3091; Email: HenryYeung@nus.edu.sg; Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm) Forthcoming in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.48(1), pp.1-30, 2007. Acknowledgement An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Asia Pacific Viewpoint Lecture at the International
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Business Profile (a) History and background Apple Computer, Inc. is largely responsible for the enormous growth of the personal computer industry in the 20th century. The introduction of the Macintosh line of personal computers in 1984 established the company as an innovator in industrial design whose products became renowned for their intuitive ease of use. Though battered by bad decision-making during the 1990s, Apple continues to exude the same enviable characteristics in the
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QUESTION 1: Write a brief account of how different elements of the temporal and PEST environments interact to influence the situation described in the case. Change in organizations is a form of strategy in the business environment. In a global business environment today, the change in the organization is very important for businesses, as it will determine the competitiveness of the business with other competitors. To survive and develop a long way in the market, organizations need to have a change
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nonessential functions and design an effective reward. Objective: To expand sales to customers who do not yet own Apple’s products. To produce hassle free products for the enjoyment for customers. To become the leader in the mobile market. Strategy: Expanding the company’s distribution network to reach more consumers. To invest in Research and Development. To become the mobile leader. Functional tactics According to Pearce and Robinson (2014), functional tactics are detailed statements
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Controls | 5 | Making better use of information | IT Cost Reduction and Controls | Comparing the list of issues of 2008 with 2013 from SIM survey report: Even though IT management working hard to maximize the use of IT to improve the business operations, but still this is the key concern from 2003 till 2013 as per SIM survey. Because of the ever-changing market, business and customer needs, this issue has become a continuous improvement process. Example: Enterprise Recourse Planning (ERP) solutions
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the bold creative instincts needed to maintain Apples edge. Managers also feel that Schiller will be more of a conventional leader and may be prone to over hyping products in ways that may tarnish Apples brand (Burrows & Satariano, 2012). Market Strategies In order for Apple to stay on top being able to market the product efficiently is one of the important factors if they want to prevent themselves from going under. Finch, (2012) says that “the best path to satisfying buyers would be to provide
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Mobile Phones andMarkets.Nokia Denmark has the question of defining the future strategic directions for product development activities which is there main concern. It use to develop about 10 mobile phones a year. Nokia Denmark had three strategic operations: Nokia could scale up JRD with Foxconn to suspend in-house development. Second, Nokia phase out with Foxconn and pursue fully in-house product development.Third would to continue parallel organization structure. The primary function of the Danish
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between being “customer centric” and streamlining the product portfolio, how to differentiate in the crowded place and promote its brand awareness/image, how to deal with change in external environment from “operator push” to “market pull”, what OS strategy it needs to pursue, or whether it should enter into tablet market. Nonetheless, the biggest challenge remains as how the company should effectively and efficiently differentiate itself in the crowded place given the resources it has. If HTC does
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