11/18/12 Chester Thompson IV TM583 Prof. Nabeel 11/18/12 RIM: Research in Motion What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property‚ and how did RIM handle those challenges? Research in Motion aka RIM is a name synonymous with wireless communication research going on at its premises for the past twenty five years. Like many other companies that receive world recognition‚ RIM has been through turbulent times and still became leading designers‚ manufacturer
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Case Analysis 2 - Research in Motion - RIM 1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property‚ and how did RIM handle those challenges? Research In Motion (RIM)‚ a global leader in wireless innovation‚ revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. There are multiple examples of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property as well as how those challenges were handled. One such example is RIM
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Heather Vondervoort Mr. Wisternoff BOH 4M1 Sunday November 18‚ 2012 Research In Motion 1) After RIM’s fall over the past few years‚ they have brought in a new man to be CEO and Barbara Stymiest is taking over as chair. The reaction to the choice to make Thorsten Heins the new CEO was seen as too little too late. People don’t feel that Heins will be able to shake up the company enough to make a big enough change. They are hoping the new phone coming out from Blackberry called BB 10 will do
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Research in Motion Porter’s Five Forces Threat of New Entrants * Moderate The ability for brand new competitors to emerge is very low. The smartphone industry is very technologically intensive. This means that a brand-new entrant would require a significant amount of money to build a comparative technological product in order to compete with RIM’s technology. No man or woman in their right mind would attempt to design and manufacture such an expensive product for such a competitive industry
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Porter five forces analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia A graphical representation of Porter’s Five Forces Porter five forces analysis is a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development. It draws upon industrial organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. An "unattractive" industry is one in which the
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Case Analysis 2 – Research in Motion - RIM: Research the history of RIM‚ specifically with an eye toward product development Introduction Research in Motion‚ or RIM‚ is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company based in Waterloo‚ Ontario‚ Canada. Founded in 1984‚ by Mike Lazaridis‚ an engineering student at the University of Waterloo‚ and Douglas Fregin‚ an engineering student at the University of Windsor. For years the company tinkered in obscurity‚ until it focused on a breakthrough
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Running head: PORTER’S STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK Porter Five Forces Analysis Managerial Economics – MBA 500 Instructor: Professor Franklin By: LaTonya Perryman Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration Concordia University Wisconsin November 1‚ 2011 Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………3 Michael Porter’s Strategic Framework…...……………..……………………..………3 The Long-run Efficiency Implications of an Oligopoly……………………………
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Porter Five Forces Analysis STRUCTURE AND REMAIN CONCEPTS: The threat of the entry of new competitors Profitable markets that yield high returns will attract new firms. This results in many new entrants‚ which eventually will decrease profitability for all firms in the industry. Unless the entry of new firms can be blocked by incumbents‚ the abnormal profit rate will tend towards zero (perfect competition). The existence of barriers to entry (patents‚ rights‚ etc.) The most attractive segment
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Porter ’s five forces is a framework for the industry analysis and business strategy development developed by Michael E. Porter . It draws upon Industrial Organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Three of Porter ’s five forces refer to competition from external sources. The remainders are internal threats. It is useful to use Porter ’s five forces in conjunction with SWOT analysis (Strengths‚ Weaknesses
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Porter’s Five Forces Strategy Skills Team FME www.free-management-ebooks.com ISBN 978-1-62620-999-2 Copyright Notice © www.free-management-ebooks.com 2013. All Rights Reserved ISBN 978-1-62620-999-2 The material contained within this electronic publication is protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and treaties‚ and as such any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is strictly prohibited. You may not copy‚ forward‚ or transfer this publication or any part of
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