Apple Corporation
External/Internal Factors
Apple is a company that has the most innovative technology and is one of the most respected global companies today that has diversity as a priority. In an Era when most technology outfits have tightened their belts to adapt to a slower- growing market, only one company stands out for forging ahead with innovation and that is Apple. In Business environments of today the four functions of management must work in harmony for business to have a better chance of succeeding. A vital part in allowing the four functions of management to work is through delegation. Globalization and technology is at the forefront of Apple’s organization. We will look at how Apple uses the four functions of management to work with the global market and the four functions are used in creating the products.
Apple has a few Internal factors within the Apple Corporation that can affect the four functions of management. The first of which is planning of the corporation; the preliminary business plan was conceived in the garage of Steve Jobs in 1976. Apple had the future goal of the company in mind making the prototype of the operating systems, virus protection, and finding private investors to see the potential in the computers and to help fund the company. The young men that invented the Apple I and II were concerned with the integration of products that were compatible software for Apple’s operating system and potentially larger markets. According to the (Computer History Museum 2008) refers to the idiosyncratic management style of Jobs’ during the creation of Apple II personal computer was an internal factor for those that were on the team at that time been confined in Jobs’ garage. The external factor that has come to affect the four functions of management within the Apple Corporation were when IBM came along with own version of a Personal Computer in the 80’s. It brought attention to the positioning of the internal structure of the computer so
Apple is a company that has the most innovative technology and is one of the most respected global companies today that has diversity as a priority. In an Era when most technology outfits have tightened their belts to adapt to a slower- growing market, only one company stands out for forging ahead with innovation and that is Apple. In Business environments of today the four functions of management must work in harmony for business to have a better chance of succeeding. A vital part in allowing the four functions of management to work is through delegation. Globalization and technology is at the forefront of Apple’s organization. We will look at how Apple uses the four functions of management to work with the global market and the four functions are used in creating the products.
Apple has a few Internal factors within the Apple Corporation that can affect the four functions of management. The first of which is planning of the corporation; the preliminary business plan was conceived in the garage of Steve Jobs in 1976. Apple had the future goal of the company in mind making the prototype of the operating systems, virus protection, and finding private investors to see the potential in the computers and to help fund the company. The young men that invented the Apple I and II were concerned with the integration of products that were compatible software for Apple’s operating system and potentially larger markets. According to the (Computer History Museum 2008) refers to the idiosyncratic management style of Jobs’ during the creation of Apple II personal computer was an internal factor for those that were on the team at that time been confined in Jobs’ garage. The external factor that has come to affect the four functions of management within the Apple Corporation were when IBM came along with own version of a Personal Computer in the 80’s. It brought attention to the positioning of the internal structure of the computer so
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