Introduction Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues.[3] It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.[4] Microsoft was established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters
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Marketing Course: BUMKT 5901 – Marketing Title: Marketing assessment – Apple Ipad For lecturer: Mohan Dass By student: Kiranjeet kaur disanj Word Length: 2000 words Due Date: 21st April 2011 Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………….3 Production Description…………………………………………………4 Product…………………………………………………………………..5 Price……………………………………………………………………...7 Place……………………………………………………………………...8 Promotion……………………………………………………………….10 Summary………………………………………………………………...13
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It is no surprise that today in most companies be it diminutive or immense, competitive advantage runs through their daily operations. Simply by wanting to achieve higher profit than the average competitor in the product market (Porter,1980).Companies seek to use their understanding to outline their market offers to deliver more value to the customers. They do so by applying competitive strategy; which according to Porter (1980) is the search to find a favorable competitive position in an industry
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Marketing Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. – Marketing is activity and strategy that make the product available for the consumer and make profit for the company. The financial access depend on marketing ability. Marketing help the people to accept new product and help to create a job – identifying and meeting
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COURSE: MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: COH 723 Programme; MSc Health Services planning and Management Department; Community Health Lecturer; J Kwaku Agyemang 1. Course Description Managerial Economics is concerned with resources allocation, decisions that are made by managers in both private and public sections (private business, private NGO’s and public sector) of the economy. The course emphasizes the application of economic principles and methodologies to decision-making process of business firms
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Sociology and Marketing Hand in Hand Written By Yomna, Aiman, Anaa To excel in business, you need more than a solid grasp of math and economics. Business requires an understanding of people -- large populations in particular. Sociology provides the educational background needed for managers to understand their employees and customers. Business leaders that understand sociology are able to anticipate customer needs and respond to employee problems in ways others cannot. What is
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Marketing Histories Marketing is a business discipline that has originated in the USA at the turn of 20th century. The aim of this essay is to describe and follow the particular socio-economic situation in which modern marketing emerged, the various processes it underwent in order to thrive and the ways it needs to change further so it can adapt and succeed. Marketing has ‘lived’ among us for such a long time that we cannot exactly mark its true beginning. It has been with us ever since people
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engage in purchase of their products. And as such, the promotional mix used by a company is really important for this task. The promotional mix in itself is very broad, consisting of various tools, like advertising, personal selling, direct marketing, public relation and sales promotion. To make the optimum use of these tools, marketers usually select them, depending on their budget and objectives, as well as the sector in which they operate (Kotler & Armstrong 1997). As such, research
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Week 1 Notes The four Ps are people, product, project, and process. The people are the project stakeholders. The stake holders can consists of the business manager, the project manager, programmers, development team, and end users. The business management normally consists of senior management (VP, President) and marketing (product manager). The project managers are responsible for tracking and controlling the progress of the project. Software engineers are responsible for developing and maintaining
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