CONTENTS 1. Current Situation 3 1.1 Current Performance 3 1.2 Mission 3 1.3 Objectives 3 1.4 Strategies 3 1.5 Policies 4 2 Corporate Governance 4 2.1 Board of Directors 4 3 External Environment 4 3.1 Societal Environment (PESTDN) 4 3.1.1 Political-Legal 4 3.1.2 Economic 5 3.1.3 Sociocultural 6 3.1.4 Technological 6 3.1.5 Demographic 6 3.1.6 Nature 7 3.2 Task Environment (Porter’s Five Forces) 7 3.3 Consumer Behaviour Analysis 10
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subscribers in the world’s telecommunication market. China’s telecommunications industry started to expand during early 1990s due to economic growth‚ technological improvements‚ low tax rates‚ and institutional changes‚ which allowed competition. Figure 1 shows that electronic-telecom industry had the fastest growth of sales revenue during 1990-2000 in the manufacturing sector. [pic] Source: China Statistical Yearbook‚ 1990‚ 1995‚ 2000 The situation in telecommunication industry
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“APPLE “ Daily? Since Apple Inc. produce iphone‚ it seems that iphone change our defination of smart phone. Iphone create a culture seems that people cannot live without it anymore‚ people use it anytime and anywhere. Iphone has been in the name of smartphones. It can be treat as a new cultural artefact and the latest medium of modern culture‚ it changes our way of communication‚ social connection‚ and having an iphone seems to be a lifestyle. The new forms of communication IPhone is a mobile
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Analysis of “Apple Tree” (extract) John Galsworthy is an English writer of XIX-XX centuries famous for The Forsyte Saga and he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1932. It is important to know‚ that he started his literary career with long short stories‚ and The Apple Tree‚ which was published in 1917‚ is one of the most popular by Galsworthy. This extract does not say anything in particular about the whole story‚ but we can see very vividly the beginning of certain kind of events. Basically
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APPLE PESTEL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS Political These refer to government policy such as the degree of intervention in the economy Apple‚ being a Cupertino based company in California‚ is subject to American laws and regulations. These include taxation laws and product manufacturing regulations. Economic * These include interest rates‚ taxation changes‚ economic growth‚ inflation and exchange rates. For example: - higher interest rates may deter investment because it costs more
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Political Analysis : Which contains frame of national economic‚ political system‚ government policy and law. Apple design‚ develop and market numerous product and service lines. They sell their products to education‚ consumer creative professional‚ business and government customers. While apple seems to display numerous products and conduct business on different segments‚ it is legitimate to wonder what the company is really good at? Too much diversity is exactly what crushed Apple during the
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9/8/2009 Chapter 1 Case Study 1. Apple was wise enough to know that the cell phone market was the perfect place to venture in to. Pretty much the whole world owns a cell phone‚ and that’s over millions of potential customers! With the ROKR they had limited say in the production of the phone‚ being that they were partnered with a third party in Motorola‚ whom was the ROKR’s overall designer. With a three way split in profits‚ and bad reviews on the phones lag‚ the phones ability to play songs
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Presented opportunities and globalization in other countries allows Apple to recognize a need to become more main-stream in other geographical areas. Apple will have to use two strategies‚ one for the domestic market‚ the United States‚ and one for the international markets France and Australia. The appropriate channel strategies Apple should use for the domestic market and international markets is the multi-channel strategy and the pull strategy. The multi-channel strategy defined as “offering
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Apple Computer‚ Inc.: Maintaining the Music Business while Introducing iPhone and Apple TV Claudette Harrison Dr. Ann Pohira-Vieth BUS 499 Strayer University Apple Computer‚ Inc.: Maintaining the Music Business while Introducing iPhone and Apple TV Apple’s inventions and competitive advantage has been a successful but probably challenging experience for Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak. The invention of the Apple Computer (Mac)‚ IPhone‚ iPod‚ and the Ipad proves that not giving up on
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was still questionable and seems like be unethical by some people. Apple can make significant profit on the sale of its products considering the price of Apple’s products and what its supplier’s workers outside of the USA are getting paid. As we can see‚ in 2010 the wages of Foxconn worker was about 900 Yuan ($143 per month).Apple’s newest iPhone costs minimum of $200 with a wireless company contract.So.it is convenient for Apple to continue business with Foxconn as it still able to gain profit from
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