Foursquare (http://foursquare.com) is one of the leading providers of location-based social networking services. Millions of people use Foursquare for social engagement and friendly competition, and many business owners are starting to recognize the marketing potential of having people that are on the move in local areas, broadcasting their locations and sharing information about stores, restaurants, clubs, and other merchants.…
then the next it can be a big disaster, it all just depends on how the business is ran and…
Most large successful companies lose the ability to enter small emerging markets because it brings additional risk to the corporation and might have stronger risk management policies. Other risks such as contractual risk, reputation risk, banking and currency risk, sustainability concerns are reasons why most companies fail to respond nimbly to changing market circumstances and challenges. Companies can address these issues by establishing proper risk management process, scenario development and contingency plans. In addition, large successful companies lose the ability to enter small emerging markets because they do not identify what they can and cannot do. They lose the capability to foresee changes, which disrupt any chances to continue to innovate and keep up with small emerging companies. Large successful companies need to always evaluate how effective they are using their resources, processes, and values. Once a company reaches the Large Company status, they lose focus and that’s not an acceptable practice in this changing technology and innovating world. Some companies fall so far behind technology and innovation where they end up going bankrupt and have to close. For example, one company may sell a product in a store and another company comes up with an ideal to sell the same product online. Customers will have the option of ordering the product online instead of driving to a store to get the same product. This a prime example of lack of continuing keeping up with technology and innovation can cause a company to hit growth trap and a result of having to close the business.…
The age of a business can affect its structure, generally older business’s who do not update or refresh since the initial implementation, and the structure would probably fail as it would lose relevance in this constantly changing digitalized world.…
The growth of social networks and smartphones over the past few years has come with a dangerous side-effect: the violation of privacy and security. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter may appear to be a fun way to keep in touch or to easily socialize with friends and family, but as these networks continue to grow some very serious privacy and security concerns emerge. Interestingly these concerns could be easily prevented by any educated user. The problem occurs when social network and smartphone companies force the average user to have to work towards gaining this education by hiding or not fully explaining some of their settings and features. One of the biggest cases of this is the recent emergence of coordinate-based apps on smartphones. In many of these apps, location services – a setting that allows the app to record the user’s exact coordinates at a given time – is turned on by default; the average user may never even be aware of its existence. This is not the only example of technology designed to follow people, there are many more new features being developed all the time to track and record an individual’s movements, despite their fun and harmless appearance; user education has become necessary for security.…
Running a successful business takes vision and a plan. And the same goes for successfully…
Saturated Nature of Business: The company has a presence in nearly every country in the world, so there may not be much run left to run…
In today’s society, billions of people across the world are accessing the internet multiple times a day. Why wouldn’t they? Many people have the internet on their smart phones, and at the touch of a button can check their email, their Facebook, their bank account balance, movie times, you name it. One of these things, however, usually consumes more of the user’s time than the others. Yes, you guessed it: Facebook. Any social networking site or application, actually, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or something similar, seems to easily suck up hours of a person’s day. Young children and teens are accessing these sites while at school, and as soon as they get home from school. Adults are accessing these sites while at work and those who are married or have children are often choosing to spend time checking their “walls” or profiles rather than spending time with their loved ones. There is no doubt that there are certain social benefits to these sites; many people say we need them to keep in touch with friends. However, the benefits do not outweigh the problems they cause. Social networking causes children and adults to be lazy and overweight, less productive at school and work, and, ironically, causes them to be anti-“social.” For these reasons, social networking is bad for society and should not be used.…
There are many factors need to be analyzed to determine how the short-run will be affected. But there is an economy of scales which company will learn how to better produce goods when it stays in business longer.…
While the company continues to uphold a good reputation, there are things that can be improved. While the service being offered is unique, exclusivity can hinder market growth. For example, eHarmony does not offer same sex services; they limit themselves to the heterosexual segment. Although the price of the membership is a useful tool in weeding out those people who aren’t serious, it may also turn away those who are. The company is also geographically exclusive; with services only provided in the U.S.…
Facebook, Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber are some of the most valuable platforms of the recent years. But before achieving this success, they encountered many challenges in the beginning. One of the biggest challenges was to reach to critical mass. Marketplaces in their first stage, usually have difficulties with user acquisition. The moment they hit some scale points in regarding total user-base, suddenly, their sites go viral and start getting lots of users. Many startups die within a short period because they could not hit the critical mass that is crucial to sparking a transaction. Until a marketplace reaches a critical mass, participants face two situations:…
Many can argue that Apple is better than Samsung or vice versa. In business we speak about the most successful business. What really makes them successful? If we are mentioning a company as being successful, is it about sales, marketing, leadership, or systems. All of these are great examples of success but in this position paper I will define success as urgency. Both of these companies have an urgency to fulfill the customer’s needs and desires and the needs and desires that are constantly being worked on is the peace of mind of security for financial mobile…
Kathleen and Donald analysed some of the companies in unpredictable and fast moving market. The first company that the author talking about is Yahoo, they has emerged as one of the blue chips of the new economy and as the internet’s top portal while they can also generates profit. The success is not easily explained using traditional thinking. Many people assumed that attractive industry helped Yahoo but actually the market is a strategist’s worst nightmare. The company used very simple strategy which is to grab opportunity as fast as possible. Analysts are not clear about Yahoo’s strategy.…
Early movers can make mistakes that lock them into inferior technologies and other can learn from these mistakes. Apple successfully making profit from its product likes iPad. The potential risk of Apple’s attitude might become complacent as it felt whole market is requiring its product. This attitude might lead Apple lower down R&D process to develop new valuable product in further. There were few cases related to organization complacent for its business performance and started losing business when competitor taken over with more functional product.…
The loyalty of drivers is quite low for Uber due to lack of real communication and connection…
