Case 1: Samsung Electronics 1. As for the success of Samsung today, do you think it is related to its international human resource management strategies? If the answer is yes, please explain how and why? Samsung has seen tremendous success in recent history, and 2012 has been nothing short of stellar for the consumer electronics vendor so far. So what made these successes for Samsung? In my opinion, there are some factors that bring the success to Samsung, which are: leadership, product
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Case Study of Samsung’s Mobile Phone Business Boon-Young Lee∗ aliceboon@kdischool.ac.kr and Seung-Joo Lee∗∗ sjl@kdischool.ac.kr Abstract: This paper examines Samsung Electronics successful growth strategy in the mobile phone business. It examines its early efforts at developing a competitive product in the domestic market, its globalization strategies, and some of the key challenges it faces today. The paper provide insights into how a late-comer to an industry can overcome certain
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industry sector. Next sector is the computer manufacturers like Apple and Dell. After this the value chain has service companies for the computers as well as the retail network to sell the computers as the next industry sector. Betz in this case study reviews Samsung Electronics, an electronics company which created laptop components but moved through the value chain to become a leading laptop manufacturer (Betz, 2011). Figure 1: Industrial value chain (Betz, 2011) Betz describes the evolution
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Maintaining the “Single Samsung” Spirit: New Challenges in a Changing Environment Caryn Ng Kar Yan B1102572 Keah Mei Sian B1102580 Nur Fathiha Bte Johan Ariffin B1100381 Mohd Roshan bin Mohd Yusop B0101223 Sarkunarajah S B1001971 Wan Arjunaidi Bin Awang @ Wan Abdul Halim E0300073 Abstract Samsung portrayed a very interesting and impressive success story in every aspect of development. Although they were hit hard by financial crisis in 2009, Samsung survived the ordeal with
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“Samsung” case study 1. Introduction: Samsung Electronics Company, henceforth called “Samsung” in this case, was established in 1969 to manufacture black-and-white TV sets. In 1974, Samsung, which was a producer of low-end consumer electronics, purchased Korea Semiconductor Company and began its semiconductor industry. Under the leadership of the chairman of Samsung Group, Kun He Lee, Samsung has risen, with a remarkable speed, to become the world’s leading memory producer, ranking 2nd just behind
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Organization design Case Study SAMSUNG LIMITED Mr.Rajan occupies No.2 position in the corporate planning department of Samsung Ltd, a multi-product company having a turnover of more than Rs 800 crores and operating in a high technology (hi-tech) industry. For the last five years, Mr.Rajan has been associated with strategic planning of the company and recently he has been deputed to a task force to reorganize the company to cope up with the changing technology and environment. At the last meeting
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SAMSUNG CASE STUDY At the end of 2003, Samsung’s CMO Eric Kim had to present his plan on how to become a blockbuster brand by 2005 to top management. After 5 years of marketing his brand in the Global market, Samsung had achieved a good positioning from awareness prospective. In order to move to the next level (to be “loved”), Kim had to take a decision based on data and comments he collected from his line managers and from the FCB partner agency during the last year. He had to decide if he wanted
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BACKGROUND This Samsung Electronics (hereinafter referred as “Samsung”) case illustrates the history of Samsung’s success in their strategy in getting into the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), the high growth memory market segment in 1980s when then-key player, Intel had chosen to exit the business. Despite Samsung’s high internal production cost ($1.30 for a single 64K DRAM chip) which exceeded the prevailing market price which is below $1.00, consistent with its strategy, Samsung went ahead to
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(2013-04-29) 다양한 제품 체험존, 통신3사 별로 갤럭시S4를 제험할 수 있는 공간을 마련하여 구매시 통신사 선택에도 도움이 되도록 배려, 다양한 플립커버 액세서리를 선보임. '갤럭시 S4' 소비자 체험 마케팅 본격 전개(2013-04-29) 삼성전자는 ‘갤럭시 S4‘ 국내 출시를 기념해 4월 26일부터 3일간 서울 삼성동 코엑스 내 센트럴 플라자에서 소비자들이 ‘갤럭시 S4′를 직접 체험할 수 있는 ‘삼성 갤럭시 S4 런치(Samsung Galaxy S4 Launch)‘ 행사를 진행했습니다. 40년 역사상 최초! 시드니 오페라 하우스에 무슨 일이?(2014-04-20) 삼성전자는 ‘시드니 오페라 하우스’의 최대 후원사가 되어 40년 역사 이래 처음으로 ‘런칭 행사’를 개최했으며 오페라 하우스의 전경은 물론 입구에도 별도 소비자 체험행사를 운영하여 ‘최초로 체험 공간을 제공’하여 큰 호응을 얻었습니다. 美 최대 전자제품 유통망 베스트바이와 손잡고 IT 제품 체험의 장 제공(2013-04-20)
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Q1: Perform a PEST on Samsung and Identify the Change Drivers The group has identified the following analysis on SAMSUNG, one of South Korea’s key income contributor from the electronics industry that has resulted on a positive impact to the growth of the nation. The following table will highlight an analysis from Samsung’s perspective with regards to the nation’s political, economical, social and technology areas, where we have identified the change drivers, be it negative or positive, from
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